Word: flopper
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think the climax of the summer was when Greg broke down and admitted that John Kerry was a flip-flopper,” said Downer, who spent the summer at the White House Office of Communications. Schmidt denies any admission of the sort. Roommate Jack P. McCambridge ’06 says the Zoo did live up to its name. “When you have Republicans and Democrats trying to live together,” he explained, “there is no accountability. Our kitchen consistently smelled like shit...
After all, nobody likes a flip-flopper...
...bloody, impassioned, rhetorically charged, knockdown bare-knuckled fight over who will run the country. We get to lambaste a President, his military failures, his rationale for fighting, his domestic policies and any number of other things. We get to call his opponent a traitor, a war criminal, a flip-flopper, a weak-willed vessel who will say anything to get elected. And much of the time, we even mean it. And then we decide. And then we realize that we are still in a real war, that we still have real enemies to defeat and that the world didn...
...this point that I take the opportunity to be a bona-fide “flip-flopper...
...book Everything You Think You Know About Politics And Why You’re Wrong, are usually more accurate and substantive than positive ones. Second, people actually do listen, and respond, to carefully crafted negativity—ardent Kerry supporters now believe he’s a flip-flopper even though that charge was invented by the Republicans last March. And third, idealistic (and self-righteous) focus groups led the Kerry campaign to believe that they could make a case for change without ever telling people what was wrong with the status quo. It took until September, after Kerry fell...