Putting Politics before Principal

True Conservatives Would Back Kerry by Robert Scheer.

If they were true to their principles, moderate Republicans and consistent conservatives would be supporting John Kerry. Instead, their acquiescence to the reckless whims of George W. Bush marks a descent into that political abyss of opportunism where partisanship is everything and principle nothing.

How else to explain their cynical support for this shallow adventurer, a phony lightweight who has bled the Treasury dry while incompetently squandering the lives of young Americans in a needless imperial campaign? If Al Gore had been knighted president by the Supreme Court and overseen this mess instead of Dubya, the rational remnant of the Republican Party would be rightly calling for his head.

By supporting a man with no principals, conservative or otherwise, simply because he is a Republican indicates that those supporters have no principals of their own. Of course we can't leave greed out of the equation, there are always those tax cuts.