...Too liberal...too “flip-floppy”...
Well, he's not too liberal as his record in Massachusetts disputes that.
As for being too flip-floppy, he's changed from pro-choice to pro-life, the horror. Plus, what politician hasn't changed his mind?
--John McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he's for them. He was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it. He said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade. He was for amnesty, now he's starting to sing another tune.
--Rudy once advocated strong federal gun controls, including a nationwide mandate to register handgun owners. Now he's emphasizing the 2A and state solutions. Rudy is solidly pro-choice, and even supported a late-term abortion procedure. But now says he opposes partial-birth abortion. He once was a mayor of a sanctuary city, but denies support for any such thing now.
--Fred shifted on interior immigration enforcement and is a bit wobbly on path to citizenship. He now rejects McCain-Feingold which he previously sponsored and is fuzzy on who is and who isn't an appropriate client for which to lobby.
--Hillary, who chastised rival Barack Obama for ruling out the use of nuclear weapons in the war on terror, did just that when asked about Iran a year ago. "I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table," she said in April 2006. Clinton, who voted for the Iraq War and then argued it would be a mistake to set a "date certain” for withdrawing American troops from Iraq, is now declaring that she wants to end the War yesterday.
--Obama, the anti-war candidate, now says he’ll invade a country who is an ally on the WOT and also recently shifted positions on coal fuels.
I am sure there are just as many position shifts among the second tier of both parties.