Attacking the most principled among themselves is an attack on Christians' best chance for survival in the public square.
He used his magic as a lawyer, actor, Watergate counsel and United States senator to become one of our country's most principled and effective public servants.
"There's so little difference between Specter and Hoeffel, I don't think it should matter to most principled conservatives," Mr. Clymer said.
David Lammy, one of your most principled Labour MPs, said in an emotional speech last week that if you did not now lead the campaign for a people's vote, Labour would be kept from office for a generation.
John Kampfner: There seems little justice that Robin Cook has parted the scene so early, depriving the critics of the Iraq war with their most principled - and practical - voice.
For some of Bolton's fans, the changes appear worrisome, signs perhaps that the Bush administration may water down some of its most principled stands without a vocal advocate in the inner policymaking circle.
Sure, some are unprincipled, venal attention-sponges who live in a world of their own with no idea what it's like to work for a living, but so are some MPs (and one of our most principled MPs is also a double Oscar-winner. Go figure).
But his most principled stance hasn't gotten a lot of media attention, even though you'd think it would.
MSN Music's Robert Christgau gave the album an "honorable mention" and quippedly referred to it as "shallowness at its most principled".
Indeed, that was the animating premise of Nicholas Kristof's head-scratching column in Sunday's New York Times: that McCain has become the world's most principled panderer.
Thus our most principled media faced two excruciating ethical questions: At what point does a candidate's falsehoods become so constant and pervasive that it is insufficient to report them without comment?
