He didn't call Romney a flip-flopper, even though there are lots of good flip-flopper attacks on Romney, because calling him a flip-flopper would undermine the idea that he's a hard right ideologue.
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I knew I'd be called a flip flopper for that.
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But Mr. Cruz is calling him a flip-flopper on immigration.
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Trump has a bit of a reputation as a flip-flopper.
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Remember the 2004 windsurfing ad that branded John Kerry a flip-flopper?
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Rand Paul jumped on the Cruz as flip-flopper theme Thursday night.
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All of which makes her a flip-flopper and maybe a sellout.
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Instead … conservative outlets were among the quickest to echo the flip-flopper charge.
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AND FINALLY ... Flip-flopper First this teacher banned bottle-flipping from his classroom.
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Cruz's "poison pill" defense didn't make him sound like a flip-flopper, necessarily.
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Abraham Lincoln was a flip-flopper: He started out pro-slavery before abolishing it.
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Her campaign even sent out mailers attacking Obama as an anti-gun flip-flopper.
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His wavering drew charges from conservative radio hosts that he was a flip-flopper.
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He was accused of being a "flip-flopper," on issues like abortion and gun control.
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He had accused Mr Trump of, among other things, "serial adultery" and being a "notorious flip-flopper".
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In 2004, Democratic nominee John Kerry was cast as a "flip-flopper" on the war in Iraq.
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But Clinton's press secretary seized on Sanders' healthcare plan as chance to cast the senator as a flip flopper.
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"It's not so much that he's a flip-flopper as that he doesn't know where he's at," said Trippi.
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But ever the flip-flopper, and with the midterm elections breathing down Republicans' necks, the first daughter is now #TeamKavanaugh.
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Or was she a baseball flip-flopper, cynically falling in behind whichever team was more advantageous in an election year?
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The funny thing about Hillary Clinton is that she gets this rap as a flip-flopper who changes with the wind.
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It made Mr. Kerry seem slightly effete, while reinforcing a central Bush critique of Mr. Kerry's candidacy: that he was a flip-flopper.
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I don't think she got much credit for it, and it fit into the narrative that Clinton's a flip-flopper with no conviction.
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And in 2000, many liberals regarded Al Gore the way some see Clinton today, as a flip-flopper short on inspiration and convictions.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a flip-flopper, too: Elected on a platform of balancing the budget, he substantially increased spending with his New Deal.
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Now that he's retired from Congress, former House Speaker John Boehner has decided to channel his inner flip-flopper and lobby for legalized weed.
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The spot casts McSally as a flip-flopper on issues ranging from Trump's proposed border wall to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
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She is a total flip-flopper, but she has been protected because the media, they were the ones that published all these WikiLeaks e-mails.
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There are a lot of bad campaign ads, but this one talks about how Ted Cruz is a flip-flopper — and does a decent job.
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He demoralized his base, and people who already hated him don't like him any more, but now they can accuse him of being a flip-flopper.
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Washington (CNN)Mike Huckabee painted Ted Cruz as a non-stop flip-flopper Friday, saying that raised questions about whether the Texas Republican can be trusted.
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Liberals will tell you President Trump is a serial flip-flopper: Syria, Russia, China, NATO, Janet Yellen, and the Export-Import Bank — all in a week!
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They have started portraying him more recently as a flip-flopper, most harshly in an ad that shows a cartoon of Mr. Rubio superimposed over a weather vane.
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" Michael Dukakis was called a "pansy," George H.W. Bush a "wimp" and John Kerry — in a subtle feat of gendered rhetoric — an effete "flip-flopper" who "looks French.
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What may be less obvious to Republican leaders is that nobody likes a flip-flopper — and no one respects a man who sheds convictions like others change their socks.
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While Mitt Romney's change of heart on abortion — which he dutifully and repeatedly addressed — gave him the flip-flopper label, Mr. Trump has so far repelled any similar branding.
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A super-PAC aligned with Jeb Bush, who previously supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, chided Rubio as a flip-flopper in an ad released earlier Wednesday.
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Since he hasn't previously been involved in politics, he doesn't have a record that could be used to paint him a "flip-flopper" when it comes to public policy.
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Campbell called Kennedy a flip-flopper during prior Senate bids, because the treasurer ran in 2004 as a liberal Democrat and the most recent two times as a conservative Republican.
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BROOKLINE, N.H. – Senator Marco Rubio declared Thursday that his Senate colleague Ted Cruz "is not who he says he is," challenging Mr. Cruz's sincerity and calling him a flip-flopper.
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"Heller is vulnerable to charges of being an opportunistic flip-flopper, one that even a Cirque performer would find impressive in his audacity," wrote Jon Ralston in the Nevada Independent.
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How can Romney of all people, a scion of wealth and a frequent flip-flopper, be the right person to press the case that Trump is an unprincipled silver-spooner?
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And unlike members of Congress, they haven't cast hundreds or thousands of roll call votes that can be caricatured to make them sound like an extremist or a flip-flopper.
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His accusation that Cruz is a flip-flopper, for instance, seemed to stick, and his claim that Chris Christie once wrote a check to Planned Parenthood prompted some curious Google searches.
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Today, he is remembered by the public, if he is remembered at all, as the flip-flopper in the musical "1776," who can't decide whether or not to vote for independence.
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The Clinton campaign could seek to portray Trump as a flip-flopper, given his apparent softening on the issue of whether he would try to deport all illegal immigrants, in particular.
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Rather than portray him as a flip-flopper per se, the former secretary of State could suggest that her opponent's shifts spring from a more general lack of knowledge and depth.
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To call Trump a flip-flopper then is unfair and misses the point in the same way trying to force his various thoughts, tweets and policy statements into a cohesive whole does.
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Van Drew has been described in some news accounts as a flip-flopper after he left voicemail messages with constituents in November assuring them he would not vote for Trump (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Sanders, as he has done much of the campaign, is painting Clinton as a flip-flopper who has only recently joined the left in opposing free trade deals like the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Their arrival will put the Cuban-American GOP presidential candidate squarely in the spotlight, caught between a party looking for a hardline stance on immigration and a community calling him a "traitor" and flip-flopper.
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" Other $9 chocolatey options include the "Tea Party," which is "infused with English tea"; and the "Flip-Flopper," which, filled with butter toffee and sea salt, is described as "sweet one moment, salty the next.
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Kerry never renounced his vote, but Republicans hammered him throughout the general election campaign as a flip-flopper with an on-camera comment he made about voting for a war appropriations bill before voting against it.
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Senator Marco Rubio is getting savaged on the topic of immigration reform, with ads from groups backing two of his rivals painting him as a flip-flopper and as overly close to President Obama and Senator Chuck Schumer.
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Trump's anger about that remark — the president believed it insulted his intelligence and made him look like a flip-flopper on a signature campaign issue — was "the beginning of the end" for Kelly, according to several Trump confidants.
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He's still popular with Republicans, and he has a gravitas that both Cruz and Rubio lack; he's a flip-flopper, but nobody doubts his patriotism; he can drive media attention in a way that, say, Ben Sasse cannot.
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Meh Marco Rubio The senator from Florida started off strong with a slap-down of Hillary Clinton that also served to one-up his former mentor, Jeb Bush, and delivered a strong finish when he slammed Cruz as a flip-flopper.
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In 20143, John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee who had voted in favor of the Iraq War, was painted as a flip-flopper when he tried to argue he had opposed funding for the war after he supported authorizing the war.
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Oliver hit him pretty much everywhere: for being a liar, for being a racist, for being a fraud, for being a flip-flopper, for being a short-fingered vulgarian, for being thin-skinned, for being corrupt—for being Donald Trump, in other words.
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Rubio not interested as Trump narrows VP list Wary of Trump being labeled a flip-flopper on the fundraising issue, the campaign is aiming to brand finance events as "victory" events that benefit the party, rather than fundraisers that boost Trump's presidential campaign.
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To increase diversity in tech we need to rethink what 'tech' is The blue dog faces a flip-flopper in Louisiana senate race However, for Mr. Trump, withdrawal from TPP was a high-profile promise to the American people during the campaign.
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Mr. Schriefer dissects this year's ads through the lens of an operative who has created some of the most memorable campaign commercials of the past decade, such as the stinging 2004 ad "Windsurfing" that depicted John Kerry as a feckless, wealthy flip-flopper.
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As much as he comes under intermittent fire for being more of an opportunistic flip-flopper than a steadfast straight-talker, he consistently returns again and again to what seems for him to be a core commitment: a fervent belief in American exceptionalism.
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He was still the same Bain Capital founder and former Massachusetts governor noted for working across the aisle with Democrats (or as then-RedState writer Ben Howe put it, a pandering flip flopper who "does what gets him popular and earns him votes") he was in 22008.
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It uses Rubio's own words and the words' of his Democratic allies to paint him as a flip-flopper who ultimately supports a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers as evidenced by his participation in drafting bipartisan immigration reform -- which he has since distanced himself from.
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George W. Bush's takedown ad of John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE in 2004 turned Kerry's sometimes nuanced positions into a negative, branding him as a flip-flopper.
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At one point, he said of a supplemental appropriation for the war, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it," a line that allowed opponents to brand him as a "flip-flopper" and haunted him for the rest of the campaign.
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A huge swath of voters — not just Democrats but Republicans and independents too — feel less favorable about Trump after watching ads that paint him as a flip-flopper who supports Hillary Clinton and Planned Parenthood, according to our new poll conducted by media and polling company Morning Consult.
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" As the Associated Press reported, Trump "made a series of calls to associates and vented about his chief of staff, bitterly complaining that Kelly made him look like a flip-flopper on his signature campaign issue, according to a person familiar with the conversations but not authorized to discuss private conversations.
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Her latest piece is an argument against the latest trend in online liberal outrage — retweeting Trump's old tweets in an attempt to out him as a hypocritical flip-flopper — but it doubles as an insight into the president's singular slipperiness and the failure of traditional rhetorical strategies to resist him.
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One might think that to avoid looking like a noncommittal flip-flopper, Trump would choose to either stick with the NRA line or decide once and for all to push for gun control proposals which are not only supported by a wide majority of Americans but even by a majority of NRA members.
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Speaking of not being held accountable, it used to be that if a politician changed their views on something it was a big deal—too many reversals might indicate you had no real moral center, and you might get hit with the "flip-flopper" label, as 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry memorably was.
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Being called a hypocrite or a flip-flopper had a negative impact at the polls (who can forget John Kerry saying, essentially "I was for that before I was against that," and a powerful deterrent to irresponsible statements and positions.) But the lesson learned from the 2016 campaign is there is no penalty for being shameless.
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Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll GOP senator: Pelosi impeachment timeline intended to help Joe Biden Harris to cut some staff, redeploy others to Iowa in campaign shake-up MORE (D-Calif.) says she knew she would be "called a flip-flopper" when she backed away from her initial support for "Medicare for All" in favor of developing her own health care plan.
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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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Pundits accused Dole of being a "flip-flopper and a hypocrite."Rich, Frank "The Log Cabin Lesson". New York Times, October 21, 1995. Retrieved January 29, 2007.
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Politicians sometimes resort to “name-calling” during political campaigns or public events with the intentions of gaining advantage over, or defending themselves from, an opponent or critic. Often such name-calling takes the form of labelling an opponent as an unreliable and untrustworthy quantity, such as use of the term "flip-flopper".
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" Kessler's awarding of Four Pinocchios to GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain for comments he made on Margaret Sanger and the founding of Planned Parenthood was also criticized by opponents of abortion. Yet Power Line also said that Kessler's extensive review of Democratic charges that Romney was a "flip-flopper" turned out to be "admirably fair-minded.
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He also painted Tunney as a flip-flopper. Still, Tunney led in the polls right up to election night, despite a steadily shrinking lead as the campaign wore on. Despite Democrat Jimmy Carter's victory in the presidential election, Tunney lost to Hayakawa in a mild upset, though Republican Gerald Ford carried California in the presidential election. Tunney resigned his Senate seat on January 1, 1977, two days before his term would officially expire, to allow Hayakawa to have seniority over other incoming senators.
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Kerry chose Edwards, who had himself sought the party's 2004 presidential nomination, to be his running mate. Bush's popularity had soared early in his first term after the September 11, 2001 attacks, but his popularity declined between 2001 and 2004. Foreign policy was the dominant theme throughout the election campaign, particularly Bush's conduct of the War on Terrorism and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Bush presented himself as a decisive leader and attacked Kerry as a "flip-flopper", while Kerry criticized Bush's conduct of the Iraq War.
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During the show's first week, on March 5, 2009, Jimmy picked three random audience members and elected one of them to be president of the audience for the night. Later that night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow appeared in a breaking news segment and reported that his approval ratings were dropping. Attack ads from his opponent were also shown, accusing the president of being a flip flopper when it came to liking Jimmy's jokes. The old president was later "impeached" on April 17, 2009, and a new president was appointed.
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Daugherty then struck a deal with Berry and Orlins to vote with them against Tanner. However, at Tribal Council, he sided with Tanner and Lee once again to vote Berry out instead, because she was too well liked by the female- dominated jury and because she had previously betrayed him at the merge by voting out Freeman. In the "final four" finale, Daugherty again convinced Orlins that he was in an alliance with her, despite his obvious alliance with Tanner and Lee. He decided she was a flip-flopper and too much of a risk, and voted her out.
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Republicans questioned Romney's commitment to conservative ideals, and often accused him of being a flip-flopper for his changing positions on issues such as state-mandated health care, abortion, climate change, and same sex marriage. Romney maintained a weak lead of 20% nationally throughout 2011, raising doubt that he was a "true frontrunner". He enjoyed a significant money advantage and had the highest name recognition in the field, and many voters found him to be the most "electable" in the general election. Ron Paul, who ran for president in 1988 and 2008, received warmer support than in previous years.
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It was also in the 1976 election, when President Gerald Ford used the phrase against his opponent Jimmy Carter.Search results for "flip-flop", New York Times archives, 1850–1981, retrieved June 23, 2008 In the 1988 U.S. presidential election, Michael Dukakis used the term against opponent Richard Gephardt, saying, "There's a flip-flopper over here" about Gephardt. The term also was used extensively in the 2004 U.S. presidential election campaign. It was used by critics as a catch-phrase attack on John Kerry, claiming he was "flip-flopping" his stance on several issues, including the ongoing war in Iraq.
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Huckabee and McCain criticized Romney's image as a flip flopper and this label would stick to Romney through the campaign (one that Romney rejected as unfair and inaccurate, except for his acknowledged change of mind on abortion). Romney seemed to approach the campaign as a management consulting exercise, and showed a lack of personal warmth and political feel; journalist Evan Thomas wrote that Romney "came off as a phony, even when he was perfectly sincere."Thomas, "A Long Time Coming", p. 45. The fervor with which Romney adopted his new stances and attitudes contributed to the perception of inauthenticity that hampered the campaign.
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On the morning of February 26, two Saturdays before the March 7 primary, Muskie delivered a speech in front of the offices of the Union Leader, calling its publisher, William Loeb, a liar and lambasting him for impugning the character of Muskie's wife, Jane. Newspapers reported that Muskie cried openly: David Broder of The Washington Post had it that Muskie "broke down three times in as many minutes"; David Nyhan of The Boston Globe had Muskie "weeping silently". The CBS Evening News showed Muskie's face contorted with emotion. Muskie maintained that if his voice cracked, it cracked from anger; Muskie's antagonist was the same editor who referred to him in the 1968 election as "Moscow Muskie", and called him a flip-flopper.
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In the immediate moments after the bill was defeated, gay activists in the visitors' gallery of the legislature began to loudly protest and were quickly chased out of the building, in some cases violently, by Ontario Provincial Police officers. According to Toronto Sun columnist Christie Blatchford: Over the next two hours, crowds of protestors began to gather in both Toronto and Ottawa, marching through the streets in what the LGBT newspaper Xtra! would later characterize as the largest spontaneous demonstration of queer anger in the province since Operation Soap. McLeod's decision to withdraw the party's support of Bill 167 led to ongoing criticism, with activists and opposing politicians branding her as a "flip-flopper" who could not be trusted to keep a campaign promise.
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Hatch opposed President Barack Obama's health reform legislation; he voted against the Affordable Care Act in December 2009, and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Hatch has argued that the insurance mandate found in the legislation is not in the category that can be covered by the interstate commerce clause since it regulates the decision to engage in commercial activity rather than regulating the activity itself. He therefore regards the Act as unconstitutional. NPR called Hatch a "flip-flopper" on this issue since in 1993 Hatch co-sponsored a bill along with 19 other Senate Republicans that included an individual insurance mandate as a means to combat healthcare legislation proposed by Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Hatch said that Obamacare supporters were "the stupidest, dumbass people I've ever met".
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