Word: flip-flopped
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...Sept. 27]. President Bush famously said, "You are either with us or against us" in the war on terrorism, but by cooperating with Syria, a well-known harborer of terrorists and a suspected developer of weapons of mass destruction, Bush seems to have changed his mind. Sounds like a flip-flop to me. William Pass Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. Political Reality or Fantasy? Joe Klein's column "Bush's Iraq: a Powerful Fantasy" [Sept. 27] was accurate and frightening. It was scary not because President Bush is living in a fantasy world but because so many Americans are blindly following...
...that when Bush changes his mind—like, on whether there should be a 9/11 commission, or reneging on a promise to fund his own education reforms, or opposing the existence of a Homeland Security Department until the moment he took credit for inventing it—the flip-flop is denied, ignored or cured with one dose of “you are either with us or you are with the terrorists.” And somehow when Kerry changes his mind—for example, on just which failure of this president’s foreign policy...
Dean would have one more, less tangible advantage: he doesn't sound like a politician. One reason the flip-flop charge has stuck is that Kerry, with his meandering, caveat-filled speaking style, often seems like a guy trying to avoid a straight answer. Sensing that vulnerability, Republicans have run the same playbook they ran against Al Gore: portraying Kerry's personality deficiencies as deficiencies of character. As a result, while Kerry leads Bush on most domestic issues, voters turn sour when asked about Kerry the man. In last week's TIME poll, Kerry's biggest deficit versus Bush...
...have voted yes again--even if he had known that Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction--he has made his Iraq contortions, rather than the war itself, the issue. Even last week, as Kerry stepped up his attacks, Bush continued to evade them with one devastating word: flip-flop...
...clever malice just might spell a winning ticket. In a sense, they’ve already won a personal victory: they have transformed their public image from that of tongue-tied oratorical brutes to veritable acrobats of rhetoric. If that doesn’t count as a flip-flop, I don’t know what does...