Word: flips
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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...
...Dean were the nominee, flip-flops wouldn't be the issue; Iraq would. The former Vermont Governor opposed the war from the start, and his rationale was as simple as Kerry's was convoluted: Saddam was not a threat. Of course, Dean would have had other general-election vulnerabilities. Republicans would have branded him the second coming of peacenik George McGovern. But Dean could have retorted that he (unlike Kerry) backed the first Gulf War. They would have ridiculed his lack of foreign policy experience. But there's an advantage to not having 20 years of Senate votes to defend...
...wrong four years before. This month alone, Bush’s campaign found a new way to combine public and party funding to circumvent the law restricting its spending, forced Kerry (for the hundredth time) to step on his own message and defend a “pattern of flip-flops,” and produced the single most memorable advertisement of the year—footage of Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, and sailing “whichever way the wind blows” on the issues...
Besides over-priced textbooks and standard art prints, Harvard’s official bookstore now carries a smorgasbord of Harvard paraphernalia guaranteed to titillate a broad spectrum of consumers. Flip-flops and Harvard-emblazoned booty shorts excite the teeny-bopper in anyone, while the range of sweatshirt options—increasingly available in red, blue, purple, yellow, pink, grey and orange—ensures that all tastes will be matched...