>Isn't hypocrisy a synonym for politics? ;-) (Not sure why I am smiling about that).
Talking about synonyms, "corsair", according to the Devil's Dictionary, means "Politician of the seas".
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)