What is one man / woman's " principles ". is often another's sin / vice / corruption, or worse. The Taliban had their set of vaunted " principles ". They certainly aren't the same as an Orthodox Jew's ! Dem's " claim " to have " principles "; they certainly are NOT the same, by and large, as those of Conservatives.
Not even the Founding Fathers stuck by the so called " principles ", that so many here claim they had.
If the Founders posted on FR they would immediately be labeled "Elite statists".
That may be, but at least they acknowledged and articulated the principle that our rights come from God. Without that principle, our society would never have come to be.