stop flop charges

Put a flip flop in your mouth. There is one thing that the Bush campaign and voters predisposed against Kerry are relying on--like last year's Panter's running game--through this election cycle: the flip flop allegation. What I am saying in that first sentence is so unremarkable that I can hear sighs from computer illuminated faces across town. But to beat the dead horse, that's the criticism--paired with its twin: Kerry will say anything. I've heard this from friends, from commercials, and it is the theme (along with 9/11) of the GOP convention.

Giuliani offered the standard routine on Monday night, and Bush repeats the lines in his stump speech. They are, of course, incredible. Happily, Glann Kessler calls the claims on the mat in a WaPo article, here.

But, look. Here is where Kerry needs to punch back, and hard. As my mom says, we can't sit and wait for undecided and apathetic voters to reason their way out of campaign BS. Every time Bush and Co. toss around the flip flop charge, Kerry should play a commercial with Bush saying we will win the war on terror, then saying we will not win the war on terror, then saying we will win the war on terror...all within 2 months.

Clearly, context tells us these variations are slight rhetoric shifts as opposed to policy changes. But, apparently, Bush and them don't care about context. When they drop the flip flop charge, I'll believe that they do.