Repubs and the Art of Flip-Flopping

[Flaylo]

Michael Sigman: Repubs and the Art of Flip-Flopping

You'd think that in an age where Google, Facebook and YouTube have come to serve as a Henner-like universal memory, politicians would have a harder time flip-flopping on key issues.

But the three so-called top-tier Republican presidential candidates -- Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann -- are, even as we speak, busy disavowing their inconvenient earlier statements by employing what an old boss of mine called the "Let's do a 180" strategy.

Of course, political flip-flopping -- as opposed to genuinely changing one's mind -- in presidential campaigns is hardly limited to Republicans. Al Gore was pro-life before he was pro-choice and for grain ethanol before he was against it. John Kerry changed his position on at least 10 issues. And Barack Obama has been driving progressives crazy for the past two and half years by compromising and caving on such issues as Afghanistan, taxing the rich and health care. (Some of these apparent contradictions might be characterized not as flip-flops but mere flops, i.e. failures, in the face of GOP intransigence, to achieve what he wanted to do.)

It's just that Romney and company toss off their "180's" with a brazenness that leaves garden-variety Democratic prevaricators in the dust.

 

[nolebrakai]

they all do it, its part of the game, like a late hit in football. its just part of the game. with than said, they all do it, Pub, Dem, does not matter.


its like the hope and change nonsense. I knew from day one that was just a cheesy a$$ political front. Sure didn't sway me to vote for Obama. I usually like to do a lot more homework on a person before I vote, and the catchy little slogan they use is of no interest to me.

 

[dblack]

they all do it, its part of the game, like a late hit in football. its just part of the game. with than said, they all do it, Pub, Dem, does not matter.

All of them? As usual with articles about the Republican 'top-tier', it's of note who was left out.

 

[Conservative]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft_Mb-4nXJk]Obama's Flip Flops: Who Is Barack Obama?? - YouTube[/ame]

 

[DiamondDave]

speaking of flip-flopping... when is it you said your egress date from this board was supposed to be???

 

[rdean]

Obama's Flip Flops: Who Is Barack Obama?? - YouTube

Hilarious. And Obama PROVED that you don't need a gazillion troops to get rid of a dictator or catch a Bin Laden. That was what he said in 2007 and that's what he said today.

And look at the disaster Iraq turned out to be.

Instead of trying to hard to prove Obama a "flip flopper", why not come up with some Republican "solutions". As if that would ever happen.