Why, then, has the flip-flopper label attached itself so much more firmly to Romney than to the equally flexible Gingrich? |
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What about the biggest flip-flopper of them all? |
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But on the other hand, if he does that, he's a flip-flopper. |
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Having cast several votes on several aspects of the current conflict, he is easy to portray as a straddler, a flip-flopper or a hair-splitter. |
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In politics, the flip-flopper label is deemed deadly, the fingering of a candidate with no fixed principles. |
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First of all, there is the perennial American political issue of being a flip-flopper. |
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But, with the pair's last of three head-to-head debates set for Monday, the campaign returned to its tried and tested formula of branding Romney an untrustworthy flip-flopper. |
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The multimillionaire ran for the 2008 nomination but was derided as a flip-flopper who changed his position on key issues to suit the political wind. |
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In the hands of Mr Johnson, a promiscuous flip-flopper himself, this invites the question of whether such maverick behaviour would be tolerable today, with the parliamentary system at its weakest in decades. |
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Then again, do we want a foodie flip-flopper in the White House? |
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