Human Weather Vane Mitt Romney Shifts on Payroll Tax Cut

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Good job, , Robert, of somehow equalizing to very different statements.
In on, Romney states that he does not support this particular type of tax break on the grounds that it will/does not do what the Left and Obama says it will - ie - create jobs.
In the other Romney states that he would be in favor of this breaks solely because it puts sorely needed back in the pockets of those who need it the most.
Zero equivalency there, and not even coming close to passing the smell test of being a "flip-flop".
No wonder you are not known for your intellect.

junior of DC 9:00AM December 07, 2011

Mike of Ca:
The equation of fundamental differences between the "varying" stances of Romney vs. Obama can analogized with Newt Gingrich's admission of having one extamarital affair (rather than having "several" extramarital affairs). Overwheming evidences are shown anywhere one choses to look that Obama has had, and is continuing to have, extramarital affairs with virtually every woman in Cook County, Illinios!
So, please do not hand me Obama superlatives at ANY level. Not unlike most who read these columns, I've outgrown the games of "Blind Man's Bluff" that you, apparently, are so well in to.
(PS: ...the word is "latter")

John Wayne of NM 5:08PM December 06, 2011

Mike of CA
You touched on just a few of John Wayne's examples. I promise you google has many, many more.
From list of 10,in my link, here is one you wish to challenge. Can find more you challeged there as well. Maybe if you read the links given by John, my comment would be unnessary:
"1. Keeping Guantanamo open"
"Undoubtedly Obama’s biggest flip-flop, his decision to keep the Guantanamo detention facility in operation has outraged his liberal supporters and ‘shocked’ European governments, who, needless to say, had overwhelmingly declined to take large numbers of dangerous terror suspects off the hands of the US government."
"As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama had condemned President Bush for supposedly “running prisons which lock people away without telling them why they’re there or what they’re charged with”, and signed an executive order shutting the facility down immediately upon taking office. Two years later Guantanamo still holds 172 detainees, and plays a vital role in the long war against Islamist terrorism."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100083104/the-u-turn-president-barack-obama-top-ten-flip-flops/

Bill Hedges of MO 4:15PM December 06, 2011

John Wayne,
There is a fundamental difference between changing positions because of political headwinds (e.g., Guantanamo) or because of a change in realities on the ground (e.g., Mubarek) and changing positions because of changing polls or for pure political expediency. Obama is an example of the former; Romney is a sad example of the later.

Mike of CA 3:41PM December 06, 2011

"Human Weather Vane Mitt Romney Shifts on Payroll Tax Cut"
Heir Schlitslinger von't say von baden vord abouten Heir Obamaizen:
The U-turn president: Barack Obama’s top ten flip-flops....
1. Keeping Guantanamo open
2. Bringing back military tribunals for terror suspects
3. Continuing renditions of terror suspects
4. Ordering military action in Libya without seeking Congressional authorization
5. Dropping Third Site missile defences in order to appease the Russians
6. Letting Sudan off the hook for the Darfur genocide
7. Backing a federal Europe after defending national sovereignty
8. Pledging to restore America’s standing in the world but lowering it instead
9. Dumping Mubarak in Egypt after calling him a "stalwart ally"
10. Killing the NASA manned space programme http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100083104/the-u-turn-president-barack-obama-top-ten-flip-flops/
Then there is the ongoing ocean-filled variety of many other "flip-flops":
Obama's Flip-Flops Adding Up - Fox News Video - Fox News http://video.foxnews.com/v/4631214/obamas-flip-flops-adding-up/
White House: We’re Really, Really Ending The Iraq War http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/iraq-war-flip-flop/
President Obama at war with himself over Wall Street http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66514.html
President Obama's Flip Flops Called Style First By Historians (PHOTOS, POLL) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/president-obama-flip-flops_n_804671.html
Obama’s Flip-Flops http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/04/12/obama%E2%80%99s-flip-flops/
Obama flip-flops on medical marijuana http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Obama-flip-flops-on-medical-marijuana-2224877.php
Obama's flip-flops on missile defense http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/06/obamas-flip-flops-on-missile-defense.html
Obama Flip-Flops on CLASS Repeal http://www.drudge.com/news/149410/obama-flip-flops-class-repeal
Obama Flip-Flops Off Trade Cliff http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-wallach/obama-nafta_b_994431.html
Obama flip-flops on the debt ceiling http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/political-pro-con/2011/jul/18/obama-flip-flops-debt-ceiling/
Obama flip flops on union promise http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-flip-flops-union-promise/
This list goes on and on and on and on and on ....but here is the "flip-flop" that totally sums up some character by the name of Barack Obama:
Obama's Flip Flops: Who Is Barack Obama?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft_Mb-4nXJk

John Wayne of NM 1:54PM December 06, 2011

hey my name is juan i dont like the weather 4 this month

juan carlos garza gonzalez of CA 1:27PM December 06, 2011

That obuma, he never chances his mind...
17 days on vacation in Hawaii and like $$$ 70 billion more in debt...
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"Reminder: Obama’s Played More Golf in 2 Yrs. Than Bush Did Both Terms"
"Between 2000 and 2008 one of the left’s most cherished ways to ridicule President Bush was to point out how often he went golfing. Bush’s golfing was a clear sign that he was ignoring the work he had to do in Washington and that he just didn’t care they claimed. He was a playboy, a goof off, a time waster. But now that Barack Obama has come to office all of a sudden the left has found that golf isn’t worth noting, even as Obama has played the game more in just under two years than Bush did during his entire eight-year term."
http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/reminder-obamas-played-more-golf-in-2-yrs-than-bush-did-both-terms/

Bill Hedges of MO 12:27PM December 06, 2011