Beyond a few foundational ideas, however, politics, by necessity, requires compromise. Ron Paul has cleared a course, but the vast majority are too cowardly to follow.
Your strict adherence to "priciple" denies the very premise of those ideas. Tyranny reigns and rather than get dirty fighting it, you sit in the seat of scoffers and decry the tattered uniform of the soldier in the trenches. Bah—take your "principles" and join the Pharisees who preceed you!