flip-flopper是什么意思_flip-flopper短语搭配_flip-flopper权威例句

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1. flip flopper 改变立场的人

权威例句

1. The great flip-flopper does not convince the conservative base.

这位大骑墙派并不能说服保守派基层。

实用例句

1. 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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2. Consciously or otherwise, they reinforce Labour's attack on him as Chameleon Dave, the flip-flopper who believes in nothing.

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3. 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.

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4. The caricature of Romney as a politically motivated flip-flopper extends far beyond the Republican campaign and right-wing blogosphere.

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5. 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.

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6. Nobody wants to be labeled a flip-flopper, not even a member of the FOMC.

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7. Exposed as an un-Christian flip-flopper and shorn of the momentum that came from seeming inevitability, she will see her voters melt away.

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8. 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.

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9. He might be called a flip-flopper (again).

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10. "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.

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11. 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.

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12. If Jay-Z were a politician, pundits might have labeled him a flip-flopper.

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13. 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.

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14. That need is driven, in large part, by Republicans' sweeping and generally effective attacks on him as an indecisive flip-flopper.

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15. He's "Both Ways Barack, " worse than a flip-flopper.

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16. Kerry remained confident and glib, belying the notion Republicans have pushed for months that he is a spineless flip-flopper.

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17. 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.

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18. Republicans have never been able to paint Obama as a flip-flopper, despite a litany of evidence.

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19. Not only has this put off many swing voters, it has also cemented the impression that Mr Romney is a slippery flip-flopper.

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20. Although does that give Republicans an opportunity to paint another Democratic presidential candidate as a flip-flopper?

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21. 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.

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22. Democrats and progressives are also running with the idea of Romney as flip-flopper.

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23. 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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24. 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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