Rubin is a well-known shill and eager media whore for Giuliani. She did another hit piece on Romney earlier about New Hampshire.
The woman does have a kernel of truth in that true Party fanatics or ideologues always measure their belief in a candidate not on the stance, but on the purity of it.
Thus anyone who was not born rooting for gay marriage or no abortion restrictions, ever,is "suspect" to Dems in a way that a lifelong gay activist or partial birth abortion supporter since age 6 isn't. And anyone on the Republican side that has come to support stem cell research restrictions isn't as "trustworthy" as someone who believed it before being baptised as a child.
And both sides "hardcores" believe that such people that change their minds about some things after thinking on them or realizing as Reagan did, that America is not California and he had to modify his position on several issues in consideration of voters sentiments...is just unfit for office. (Good that Reagan escaped the Religious Right torch mob as he "flip-flopped" from being a Democrat and union backer and Godless Hollywood friend of homos and banger of any starlet he could nab while married to Wyman to the "moderate Reagan" to the conservative, compromising Reagan that signed the nation's most liberal abortion Bill. Then said a few years later he rethought it and considered it a mistake. What a flip-flopper he was!!)
At one point, I thought it was the goal of politics to convince people to come to your side, or halfway to your side, and be treated decently for it. Now if someone gifted like Harold Ford decided to go Republican he would be treated as a questionable former heretic and inferior in his sincerity and qualification for office to a true believing Republican. And Democrat activists will go after any Democrat of offers apostasy on the politically correct view on abortion, and suspicious Republican or Independent that shifts sides.
It was better back in Reagans early years. Shifts in view were respected, sometimes lauded even by opposition if they took serious thought and were well-defended.
Now brainless chants of "flip-flopper! flip-flopper!" are mainly done by the ignorant as a way of celebrating and reinforcing their minds being closed to any new idea or fact.
A real flip-flop, is like Kerry voting both ways on a bill in the same day, which stands out for crass expediency.
But there is nothing wrong with a candidate whose views were perfect for rural whites in Georgia when running for Congress moderating those views to acknowledge the different consensus of the whole State when running for Senate or Governor, then rethinking his positions if he wants to run nationally and get Connecticut and Illinois and Oregon voters as well as Georgia ones....
Rubin is a well-known shill and eager media whore for Giuliani. She did another hit piece on Romney earlier about New Hampshire.
The woman does have a kernel of truth in that true Party fanatics or ideologues always measure their belief in a candidate not on the stance, but on the purity of it.
Thus anyone who was not born rooting for gay marriage or no abortion restrictions, ever,is "suspect" to Dems in a way that a lifelong gay activist or partial birth abortion supporter since age 6 isn't. And anyone on the Republican side that has come to support stem cell research restrictions isn't as "trustworthy" as someone who believed it before being baptised as a child.
And both sides "hardcores" believe that such people that change their minds about some things after thinking on them or realizing as Reagan did, that America is not California and he had to modify his position on several issues in consideration of voters sentiments...is just unfit for office. (Good that Reagan escaped the Religious Right torch mob as he "flip-flopped" from being a Democrat and union backer and Godless Hollywood friend of homos and banger of any starlet he could nab while married to Wyman to the "moderate Reagan" to the conservative, compromising Reagan that signed the nation's most liberal abortion Bill. Then said a few years later he rethought it and considered it a mistake. What a flip-flopper he was!!)
At one point, I thought it was the goal of politics to convince people to come to your side, or halfway to your side, and be treated decently for it. Now if someone gifted like Harold Ford decided to go Republican he would be treated as a questionable former heretic and inferior in his sincerity and qualification for office to a true believing Republican. And Democrat activists will go after any Democrat of offers apostasy on the politically correct view on abortion, and suspicious Republican or Independent that shifts sides.
It was better back in Reagans early years. Shifts in view were respected, sometimes lauded even by opposition if they took serious thought and were well-defended.
Now brainless chants of "flip-flopper! flip-flopper!" are mainly done by the ignorant as a way of celebrating and reinforcing their minds being closed to any new idea or fact.
A real flip-flop, is like Kerry voting both ways on a bill in the same day, which stands out for crass expediency.
But there is nothing wrong with a candidate whose views were perfect for rural whites in Georgia when running for Congress moderating those views to acknowledge the different consensus of the whole State when running for Senate or Governor, then rethinking his positions if he wants to run nationally and get Connecticut and Illinois and Oregon voters as well as Georgia ones....