Fine . . . pull out a dictionary on me!! :)
I appreciate your point . . . point taken.
Still, what made the "flip-flop" campaign against Kerry so effective (and funny) was to be able to show him going back and forth and back and forth time and time again on so many different issues. Mitt can't be criticized for this and so I don't think Kerry's nickname of the "flip-flopper" really fits Mitt.
Plus, all people and politicians change and so we're all "flip-floppers" then by your dictionary definition. Heck, Reagan used to be a Democrat, that dang "flip-flopper!"
Dear Jeff Fuller,
I understand your point.
However, keep in mind that part of the definition is SUDDEN reversal.
Mr. Reagan's changes came over time. Although he remained a registered Democrat until 1962, he voted for Ike in 1952.
By the time 1980 rolled around, he'd been a Republican for 18 years, and been voting for Republican presidential candidates for 28 years. Even on the issue of abortion, he'd gone from "mostly pro-life" to "radically pro-life" over a dozen years preceding.
That isn't exactly a SUDDEN reversal of anything.
Mr. Romney, on the other hand, was pro homosexual agenda up until at least 2002 (by his own admission), pro-abort up until at least 2002, and anti-Second Amendment until rather recently. He readily admits that he changed his mind on the homosexual agenda (although not very much) while governor, changed his mind on abortion in 2004, and well, I don't know WHAT to think about when he changed his mind on the Second Amendment.
As a matter of tactics, by the way, I wouldn't bring up Mr. Romney in the same breath as Ronald Reagan. For those social conservatives who know the actual history of things - that Mr. Reagan was NEVER pro-abort, took decades to achieve his political changes, etc. - the comparison is insulting, or at the very least, self-defeating, and makes us even more hostile toward Mr. Romney.
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