Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Flip-flop:" the Random House definition reads, "a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude or policy...
...perhaps the greatest flip-flop-flip-agains in political history, Texas billionaire Rose Perot re-entered the race for the presidency. As an undeclared candidate, Perot led in the polls consistently until his "grassroots" movements hit the brick wall...
...there is something more precious about a genuine, lips-twitching, mouth-frothing, nosegrowing flip-flop. Real flip-flops have a depth of irony and lunacy that make them unusual. They throw journalists, who never satisfy the urge to communicate the two-faced nature of politics, into a frenzy...
...nation's most recent ex-president, Ronald Reagan, has been easier to faults for his honesty than for any lack of consistency. But he also set a record for speed of a flip-flop...
Bush is certainly not the only candidates to flip-flop this year, and many of the reversals had far deeper roots than a 1988 pledge. The ever-changing debate on abortion has caused many politicians to change their stances on the divisive issue...