Nonetheless, Handel's television ads have tried to connect him to tie-dyed San Francisco liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Al Jazeera and Osama bin Laden, and even, in an ad from the conservative group Principled PAC which Handel has since disavowed—"the unhinged leftists cheering last week's shooting" at the Republican congressional baseball practice.
These new groups are principled and theoretically well-versed, but have no truck with the narcissism of small differences that used to corrupt even the most well-meaning of leftwing movements.
"He's the principled conservative," one of the group's ads says.
Mr. Tamstorf uses another word —"principled" — to describe the Columbia group's approach to problem solving.
If the Republican Party is going to evolve into a principled majority party, members of this group are going to have to build a governing philosophy based on this insight.
Their leader, Jamil Mukulu, was arrested in 2015 and some former members say this marked the beginning of the group's descent from principled, albeit violent, ideology, to simple criminal slaughter.
It is extremely difficult, and painful, to take a principled position that goes against the preconceptions of your tribe, your group.
That alliance must include concerned citizens of all persuasions, principled politicians from both sides of the aisle, organizations and groups from across the societal spectrum, and, yes, those "enemies of people", the traditional media.
Imputing a sentimentalized solidarity to groups risks diminishing what may well be knowledge-workers' intellectual, principled, or pragmatic motives to participate in a community and identify with it [ 12, 24, 36].
The latter group are less concerned about governance and more focused on social issues and taking principled, if fruitless, positions to demonstrate their conservative bona fides.
For stances like this, he earned plaudits from conservative groups, such as the Club for Growth, which said it had for years celebrated Pence's "principled stands for economic conservatism".
