I consider myself very principled, but I also realize that principles are relative, even 'bedrock' principles. Please learn 'how' to think.

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I'm a hypocrite, I'm intolerant of intolerance. Hey, what's your Terrorist Score?

I'll have to cut in for Publius here for obvious reasons:

Political principles are the ideals for government and society that people hold. These ideals are always the ideals, and the goal does not change depending on where government and society are currently. In this way, principles are not relative, but people can be non-principled and pragmatic in their approach to society and government if they think that it is for the greater good. These, however, are not principles.

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"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary"

-- Ludwig von Mises