Word: flipped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President’s initial opposition to the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 was simply unfathomable. On October 24, 2001, Ari Fleisher said the president believed “there does not need to be a Cabinet-level Office of Homeland Security,” and Bush only flip-flopped on this issue when forced to by political pressure. The President still plans to cut $1 billion in Homeland Security funding in both...
...legislation if he later finds compelling evidence against his original position. He voted for the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq, but after witnessing the enforcement of the former and the execution of the latter, he sensibly requalified his positions on both. Republicans call this “flip-flopping.” We see his ability to reassess past decisions as a substantial and important personal characteristic...
...transgressions have more often been misdemeanors rather than felonies, involving style and volume more than substance. The President has spent more than $100 million in negative advertising against Kerry, and almost all of it has been within the bounds of standard political practice. Some has been quite brilliant: the "flip-flop" assault inflated Kerry's most annoying trait--his nuance-addled hedging of political bets--into a defining character flaw. That was fair, as was the dreadful broadside of ads taking isolated Kerry votes--98 times, allegedly, for higher taxes--and telescoping them into an ideological pattern. Negative advertising...
...Karl Rove believes stayed home on Election Day 2000--George W. Bush said he would work to pass a U.S. constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But as the race got under way, the Bush campaign had to decide whether to portray Kerry as a committed lefty or a squishy flip-flopper. Though both caricatures were used, the G.O.P. campaign focused far more on the question of whether Kerry could provide steady leadership in uncertain times. Saying that Kerry takes multiple positions has now made it harder to claim he's on the wrong side of wedge issues...
This is also Kelley’s first show to feature strong men and wishy-washy women, a flip-flop from his usual pseudo-feminist productions. Unfortunately, Ally McBeal this ain’t; the reversed formula simply doesn’t work. Even an actor of Spader’s skill can’t support a show on his own, and the boring characters Kelley surrounds him with fail to gain the audience’s interest...