[Naspino]

Just remember to drop principles by the door on election day. A vote for anyone other than George W. Bush will not be a principled vote it will be a vote for Howard Dean or Hitlery Clinton depending on how the primary comes out.

[Consort]

Just remember to drop principles by the door on election day.

Exactly. In politics, common sense trumps principles, morals, conscience, and personal views, etc. because politicians are like poets and taxi drivers....they make their own rules and regulations, they follow no existing laws and statutes, and they operate within their own set of parameters as defined by them at any given time.

[Orangedog]

A vote for anyone other than George W. Bush will not be a principled vote it will be a vote for Howard Dean or Hitlery Clinton depending on how the primary comes out.

And the GOP has about one election cycle left to rely on that as the overriding reason to keep returning them to power. The GOP leadership in Congress is just about moved "off the reservation" completely regarding spending and growing non-military spending and growth of government. How much of the base can the party afford to p*ss off in 2004 in the hopes of gaining the votes of the insipid soccer-moms who will turn on them the second the dems top them with the "...for the children" line of BS?

The party faithful will sit around and bitch about one segment of the right cost them them election instead of wondering why those people who had always been in their camp stayed home instead of going to the polls.

[Soren]

Just remember to drop principles by the door on election day

The party without principles. I like it. Has a ring to it.

[Independentamerican]

Why do you think we have to vote for either party ? We don't have to vote for Dean or Bush.

[RogerFGay]

Just remember to drop principles by the door on election day. A vote for anyone other than George W. Bush will not be a principled vote it will be a vote for Howard Dean or Hitlery Clinton depending on how the primary comes out.

The Republicans have adopted so much of the Democrats domestic agenda, that I'm not sure many people care.

[MissAmericanPie]

A vote for any of them would be unprincipled. Bush has dusted off his principles long ago. If what he has is called principles, God save us.

It's no longer a choice between the lesser of two evils. Now it's having to decide which of the two evils is dumb and lame enough not to be able to get his damaging agenda through.