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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-04 02:59 PM
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If repetition worked for Bush to paint Kerry as a flip flopper
then repetition ought to help, if we USE OUR LOCAL MEDIA, to tout the idea that
a. Bush is a flip flopper, probably a bigger one than Kerry
b. What the heck is a flip flopper, anyway? Someone who changes his or her mind based on getting new information?
c. The 87 billion was NOT a flip flop, was 2 different bills, Bush threatened to veto (thus threatening to not fund the troops either) and needs to be addressed as such.

Demmit. We can't fix the national media. But we CAN take every opportunity right now to hit out on the points that people do NOT understand and are using as sound bytes.

Write a letter today or take out an ad in your local paper. We KNOW Kerry is not a flip flopper, any more than ALL of us are at some point or another.
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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-04 03:38 PM
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1. Here's my draft
Have you ever changed your mind once you found out more facts about a subject? Would it be fair to call you a flip-flopper? What if you never changed your mind and rigidly held a viewpoint from cradle to grave-would that be a trait to be proud of?
Is it a flip flop to be against nation-building, as Bush was in 2000, and then invade another country?
Is it a flip flop to be against the 911 commission, and then be for it?
Is it a flip flop to be for additional mercury in our drinking water and then be against it?
Is it a flip flop to be against the Iraq WMD investigation, and then be for it?
Is it a flip flop to be for free trade, then for tariffs on steel, then be against them?
Is it a flip flop to be for state’s rights for gay marriage, then be against it in favor of a national constitutional amendment?
Is it a flip flop to be for “No Child Left Behind” but then not fund it properly?
Is it a flip flop to say he’s ask for more money for the war after the November election, but then change his mind and ask for the money now?
Is it a flip flop to say “Bin laden Dead or Alive” but then say “I don’t know where he is. I have no idea, and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
Bush apparently believes that if you repeat some phrase often enough, , some people will believe it without question or thought If flip-flopping is a bad thing, then we’re all bad, because everyone has changed his/her mind at some point on some issue-as has Bush.
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