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...then does racial treason really exist? Ultimately, Kennedy’s undertaking can be summed up with one word: grapple. Indeed, Kennedy wrestles with the validity of the idea that an African American can be held accountable by a group that is merely a social construction. He flip-flops between declaring that black people can be punished for betraying their group and encouraging black students “not [to] permit an inflated conception of racial obligation to weigh them down.”In the end, readers are left wondering what exactly they’re supposed to glean...
...Colin Powell shares McCain's mystical ability to make liberals believe he secretly agrees with them, no matter what he actually says. And Powell has to work at having it both ways. For McCain, it's a gift. Mitt Romney demonstrated that there are limits to how many brazen flip-flops the voters will tolerate. But when people believe you are telling the truth if you agree with them and lying if you disagree, you don't need to flip-flop...
...most honest man in Washington [Feb. 4]will help him win his party's nomination this year, particularly since GOP moderates have finally started to reclaim their party from neocon fundamentalists. Love him or hate him, McCain is the real deal. His credibility juxtaposed with Mitt Romney's flip-flopping will further underscore McCain's credibility this election cycle, virtually guaranteeing him the nomination. Jeff Robertson, FAIRBORN, OHIO...
...more important to me - I'm going there. You've also got the Mormon thing; the media played that up. You have some people on the social side of the Republican Party [who are] just not going to vote for a Mormon, no matter what. Also, he had his flip-flop problems on abortion that he had to talk about. I think he did a better job of convincing people he had genuinely changed his mind than other people did on certain things...
...hundreds of supporters to win a highly symbolic straw poll. But the press focused much of its attention on the detractors in the crowd - the supporters of Sen. Sam Brownback, who handed out "Mitt-flop" sandals and the person dressed as a porpoise in the hallways, introducing himself as "Flip Romney...