Word: flopped
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...John Kerry is a flip-flop, then President Bush is a stiletto driven straight into my heart...
Like many Democrats, when I hear the words “flip-flop,” I cringe. I cringe because flip-flops are unimportant and easily dismissed. I cringe because many hear “flip-flop” and are irritated by “Republican spin” rather than troubled by unprincipled ambition. Flip-flops are trivial, but our decision this November is not. In comparing John Kerry and President Bush, we would do well to look beyond talking points and press releases to a record that reflect the true character...
Language presents us with many opportunities to compromise accuracy for cleverness. In the statement above, the bargain is clearly worth it. Kerry is a “flip-flop,” just as his accuser is another type of shoe? Double entendre, phallic imagery, anti-war allusions? Incredible...
...proposed for operations in Iraq, which Kerry says he initially supported but then later opposed: “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” Bush clearly cannot forgive his opponent for this oratorical inferiority. By “flip-flop,” I think he is trying to say that at first, when a fair and economically feasible version of the bill was on the Senate floor, Kerry supported it, but after the Bush administration used the threat of a veto to change critical clauses of the bill...
...while Bush acts flip about his flop in Iraq, John Kerry has made his position on the war perfectly clear: at a speech Monday at New York University, Kerry declared that he would not have invaded Iraq. He stands by his vote for authorizing the possible use of force. (Reminder for President Bush: this is the resolution you were referring to in October 2002 when you said “Approving this resolution does not mean that military action is imminent or unavoidable.”) But Kerry feels that force was not necessary. After all, Hussein admitted weapons inspectors...