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Originally Posted by willravel
The king is 'flip flopper'. What a negative connotation to give a wise belief system. If you're wrong, you try to right your wrong. So that's bad? Does one become inconsistant if one decided to learn from his or her mistakes? That's scary.
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That assumes that the person is really learning from mistakes, and not just following what the latest opinion poll says is popular. It is wise to reexamine your beliefs, but that assumes you actually FORM beliefs to examine. It could also indicate a inability/fear of making a decision, something that is generally considered undesirable in anyone in an executive position.
And (I assume) this relates to Kerry. I've had people who are die-hard liberals (one who even worked the last 2 cycles for democratic election campaigns) who didn't even know what Kerry stood for. I thought in his case the term was correctly applied, and was an apt description of one of his negative traits.