Spare me from principled people

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/the-bizarre-burgeoning-legend-of-judd-gregg.php
How I distrust people that boast about themselves as people of principal. Let us take the strange behavior of Judd Gregg. Now, I always thought it was a bizarre appointment - Richardson has to back out, and then a pretty conservative Senator from a pretty tiny state is offered the position. Somehow it doesn't seem like a fair exchange. I have read all sorts of stuff that said that Gregg lobbied hard for the position. I have also read that when he accepted, the Republican party in New Hampshire went ballistic. Republicans excel at venomous attacks, so one can just imagine the hate mail he was getting. The Republicans have apparently decided that their way back to power is to attack and stop anything that Obama wants to do, so Gregg was most likely seen as a traitor to his party. To get back in the good graces of the Repugs he withdraws his acceptance, gives a press conference just as Obama is about to give a speech at a rally. What was different on Thursday than when he had accepted the appointment? Now he is being lauded as a person of PRINCIPLE? Please, give me a break. How about being a person with no spine, like that wacky congressman that went crawling to Rush after he had criticized him. Joe Lieberman thinks of himself as person of great principal, so maybe Joe and Judd can go off and be principled together after their sorry asses are voted out of the Senate.