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. |
In politics, the flip-flopper label is deemed deadly, the fingering of a candidate with no fixed principles. |
Why, then, has the flip-flopper label attached itself so much more firmly to Romney than to the equally flexible Gingrich? |
What about the biggest flip-flopper of them all? |
First of all, there is the perennial American political issue of being a flip-flopper. |
But on the other hand, if he does that, he's a flip-flopper. |