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...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...
...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...
...unfairly, as a candidate without convictions. At the conservative conference in 2007, Romney brought in 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...
...even before that flip-flop, Sarkozy's sudden admiration of all things holy starkly contrasted his carefully constructed public image: the repeat divorcee, whose stint as potentially France's most eligible bachelor is endangered by what Sarkozy himself called his "serious" relationship with former top model Carla Bruni. Given that somewhat hedonistic reputation, Sarkozy's expression of newfound piousness led author and famed social commentator Bernard-Herni Lévy to muse in the weekly Le Point over "the probable stupor of Cardinals listening to the apostle of the bling-bling presidency (and) uninhibited relationship with ostentatious pleasure...
...What does it tell us about life, the world, the state of the U.S.? Are not American primary campaigns dominated by the need to raise money from those who want favors and will later extract them? Do candidates not pander to their base support? Do they not flip-flop shamelessly on the issues? Do they not parrot clichés - the need for American "leadership" in the world is a favorite one - with little attempt to educate their audiences in the complexities of the age? Is the exercise not a great license for an army of pundits to bloviate, often...