Flip-Flop?

[lsanderson]

U.S. to Hand Iraq a New Timetable on Security Role
By DAVID S. CLOUD

Officials said that for the first time Iraq was likely to be asked to agree to a schedule of specific milestones, like disarming sectarian militias. More

Do I detect some flip-flopping here?

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Iraqization! Our secret plan to end the war! We can see the light at the end of the tunnel!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"Do I detect some flip-flopping here?"

No. It's only flip-flopping if Democrats do it. (This is a serious response.)

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[daedala.livejournal.com]

I was fascinated to find that "flip-flopping" has been used against people who do not toe the Republican party line for at least ten years. I saw some 1996 (or was it '97?) ads against Cindy Watson, a Republican who opposed the hog industry waste practices and was subject to a multimillion dollar campaign on that point, and they used the term.

She wasn't a Dem, but she may as well have been.