I'm a pragmatist, but I would never vote like Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Alan Spectre, John McCain, Chaffee, etc vote.
So, I won't ever let you use "pragmatist" and "RINO" as synonymous without challenging that.
You may not be (RINO), but the danger with Pragmatism over Principle is that it can lead to (easly lead) to RINOism becuase once you slip and say 'in this circumstance' I have to compromise my principles to get X-result, then that doesn't Really (especially for important issues (whatever that is for you) give you grounds for being Principled on other issues and other circumstances. It would have been better to stand for something on Principle and loose result X (wether power, or an election result, or a good cause done with evil means, etc...) than to gain result X, and loose your pricipled posistion, hence (some would argue your soul ;)):Be whatever you like, but heed my warning: better to loose your whatever you want, and gain your dignity, than to loose your dignity and gain something temporary (in LIFE) :)...