Although does that give Republicans an opportunity to paint another Democratic presidential candidate as a flip-flopper?
Nobody wants to be labeled a flip-flopper, not even a member of the FOMC.
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Republicans have never been able to paint Obama as a flip-flopper, despite a litany of evidence.
The caricature of Romney as a politically motivated flip-flopper extends far beyond the Republican campaign and right-wing blogosphere.
Consciously or otherwise, they reinforce Labour's attack on him as Chameleon Dave, the flip-flopper who believes in nothing.
Democrats and progressives are also running with the idea of Romney as flip-flopper.
Kerry remained confident and glib, belying the notion Republicans have pushed for months that he is a spineless flip-flopper.
That need is driven, in large part, by Republicans' sweeping and generally effective attacks on him as an indecisive flip-flopper.
He almost seems to have gone out of his way to provide fodder for Republican claims that he is a flip-flopper.
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It's as if it's there's a line in the campaign manual that says, you know, chapter three, call your opponent a flip-flopper.
Exposed as an un-Christian flip-flopper and shorn of the momentum that came from seeming inevitability, she will see her voters melt away.
Not only has this put off many swing voters, it has also cemented the impression that Mr Romney is a slippery flip-flopper.
If Jay-Z were a politician, pundits might have labeled him a flip-flopper.
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But amid criticism of Romney's campaign as muddled and clumsy, the messaging shift could also cement Romney's image as a flip-flopper, political experts say.
More recently, he elevated his fire directly at Romney, labeling him a flip-flopper on conservative issues including abortion rights, cap and trade and government mandated health care.
Prediction: we are going to see more and more Republicans and outsiders attacking Romney in the coming weeks not for being a flip-flopper, but for being too smart.
Worse, since Mr Romney now tries to present himself as an ardent conservative, these policies have allowed the other candidates to denounce him as a flip-flopper and an impostor.
He was everything Democrats were seen as through the eyes of the Republican opposition: an effete, Ivy League flip-flopper who could debate with a silver tongue but had no backbone.
At their convention, Republicans sought to ram home their advantage by linking two favourite themes: the war on terror is the defining feature of the Bush presidency, and Mr Kerry is a flip-flopper.
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Obama campaigned for the Latino vote by portraying John McCain as a flip-flopper who went from co-authoring a comprehensive reform plan to parroting a secure-the-border-first approach and promising to be more consistent as president.
He might be called a flip-flopper (again).
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"If Romney pushes hard the same meme the GOP leaders are pushing, he looks like a complete flip-flopper, " Norm Ornstein, a veteran political analyst and author of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, " said before Romney revealed his position in interviews on Wednesday.
MoveOn.org, a Democratic pressure group, is running endless ads quoting Mr McCain saying that America could be in Iraq for another hundred years, a statement that could come to define him much as John Kerry's statement that he voted in favour of funding the war before he voted against it defined him as a flip-flopper in 2004.
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