hopefully a constructive political debate

fundingfather
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:41:16 +0000

He voted to authorize the Iraq war, and it turned into a giant fiasco (with no WMD), so now he says, “We shouldn’t have trusted this president with that power. I wish I’d cast a different vote.”



So, now that the fiasco ship has turned around and things looks a lot less dire, are the Dems going to do yet another reversal? Nope, not until their base does as well. To pitch Edward’s transformation as some sort of logical analysis of the data is very naive. He thought that he knew exactly what would be required to win the nomination and conformed his platform to meet those expectations. In that sense he is exactly like Romney - except that Edwards flip flops have a direct effect on foreign policy and security. I think those types of flip flops should be held to tighter scrutiny than generic flip flops.

However, I give both Edwards and Romney credit for at least taking a definitive position and sticking with it. Those are real flip flops but at least they decided which side of the fence they wanted to be on and then defended that position. Contrast those with the waffles of the Kerry and Clinton campaign where they say whatever they feel that their audience of the day wants to hear. I’ll take a flip-flopper over a waffler any day.