Bush's Shrinking Safety Zone

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Infighting within the party proves that politics is inevitable even amongst the supposedly "principled", which in turn proved to me that "principle" is not the operating consideration that even LPers think it is.

For parties that are not in power, internecine fights over who is the more principled is about all they have to do. Parties in power actually having a responsibility to craft wise and functional policy don't have the time for it. An out of power party might do better if it didn't waste any energy over who's purer than whom and simply set out to attain office instead.