[joanie-f]

Politics is the art of compromise. Principles can never be compromised.

Amen.

Compromise is an 'art' that has to recognize the fine line between that which can be relinquished in degree and that which cannot be relinquished at all. With honest men, principles are never 'compromisable' entities.

[brityank]

Sad thing is, what I see happening in the Republican party today is what I saw with the Democrats in the late '60's. I really liked D. P. Moynihan until the Johnson crew choked him off and bought his soul. All of Dan's predictions on the damage that the 'Great Society' would spawn have come true, and we are the worse for it.

And the complaint is always: "Why don't better people enter politics?" How many would willingly put up with the vehement slander and derision that have become part and parcel of the political venue? No one I know.