"...Compromises consistent with principle"

We agree on many things! I agree with your comment on "good intentions" and should have but it in quotes to signify I meant it to be a tongue in cheek! Thanks for the heads up! These "do gooders" are either clueless or much worse. They make me think Cicero who said "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." Spanish These knuckleheads either willing or unwittingly are Al Qaeda's Fifth Column. The Fifth Column is a clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation's solidarity by any means at their disposal. The term is credited to Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “fifth column!”
These fools will get us killed and destroy our Republic from Within more than from Without!

Thank you 2spotlefty for writing, reading and commenting.

We agree on many things! I agree with your comment on "good intentions" and should have but it in quotes to signify I meant it to be a tongue in cheek! Thanks for the heads up! These "do gooders" are either clueless or much worse. They make me think Cicero who said "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." These knuckleheads either willing or unwittingly are Al Qaeda's Fifth Column. The Fifth Column is a clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation's solidarity by any means at their disposal. The term is credited to Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “fifth column!”
These fools will get us killed and destroy our Republic from Within more than from Without!

Thank you 2spotlefty for writing, reading and commenting.