[Little Ray]

Then I'm not Republican. I will never support a party over my principles.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Do your principles allow for the election of Democrats to office as a result of your lack of participation in the mainstream of American politics?

In other words...do you hold your principles above the well-being of the nation?

I know the nature of the enemy, it is the DNC, and by nature it is unprincipled, so I believe that standing on "principles", raising my own interests above that place where I place the well-being and interests of my country, and by either my actions or inactions allowing a Democrat to take office is unprincipled, and perhaps even un-American.

[Allen H]

"Then I'm not Republican. I will never support a party over my principles."

RIGHT ON! That's the way ALL conservatives should be. If it was, the democrat party would lose about 20% of it's voting strength right off the bat. I love the Republican party, but the day it changes or stops supporting it's plank, which is based almost entirely on Christian principles, is the day the GOP loses my vote. THAT is the best way to ensure the Republican party will never be taken over by radical fanatics like the democrat party has been. If freakish radicals can't ever get elected because the dedicated conviction led base refuses to elect someone like that who doesn't support those same conservative principles, that will always stop the conservative movement in the GOP from being hijacked. Too bad the democrats don't do that, it would help add to the conservative GOP base. :)