As the presidential race begins to heat up, it is mind boggling, how much candidates are changing stances on issues. The two democratic frontrunners argues with each other like 4 year olds, and two of the leading Republican candidates, flip-flop more than John F(lip-flop) Kerry. Rudy Giuliani changed his stance on abortion no less than 3 times in one week, and now, John McCain is 'rethinking' his stance on immigration? Does that mean he wants to close the borders? Is he going to become every illegal immigrant's most bitter enemy, instead of "best friend"? I doubt it. All of this "flip-flop" mentality will lead to one thing, voters thinking that the candidate is open minded and willing to change, when in reality, it is just smoke and mirrors.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Why do politicians switch their views so often?
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Sooooo, what about Romney? Can his flip-flops be trusted as purely playing playing politics? Or is he really any different than the other two (or Kerry, for that matter)?
-Gid
Romney has been pretty much the same in all of his stances all a long. Granted some change, but hey, Ronald Reagan was a full blown liberal, who actually made abortion legal in California, before he saw the light.
Romney takes a lot of heat on his abortion stance, because he placed a moratorium on abortion laws, since it was a very hot issue at the time he went into office, and the state had MUCH more important issues that needed to be worked out before anything of this nature really could be done.
A flip-flop is mostly valid only within a certain election cycle, to hit a little niche market of voters here and there.
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