Mitt & flip-flopping

It seems to me that the (R) candidates are going about the flip-flopping the wrong way.

Q: Who ran for the Senate as a Whig candidate in 1856, as a Republican in 1858, and for President in 1860, having flip-flopped his way to the White House?

A: The very same person whose 1860 advisers compromised on a number of stances and when told to stop by him, "Make no contracts that will bind me", said that they were winning him the White House "Lincoln ain't here and don't know what we have to meet... [H]e must ratify it". This gave AL culpable deniability, i.e., he was freed from any guilt by association. He never tried too strenuously to rebut those agreements.

A: The very same person whose flip-flopped from his earlier slave position, moderate abolitionist wherein he had said on Dec 24, 1860 to the Senate Committee on Crisis that the Constitution should be amended never to interfere with slavery, unto full abolitionist with the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863.

In short, say that they are flip-flopping to the moral and right answer. Mitt Romney's lack of support in 2003 for GWB's capital gains' tax deduction is five years removed from 2008. Lincoln flipped twice each time about 2 or 3 years removed from his former position. Romney looks staunch anti - compromiser in comparison to AL.

Bring up Winston Churchill's changing of parties from Conservative to Liberal and Liberal to Conservative to fit the times. Later on in life WSC was never a full conservative, who repealed all of Clement Attlee's socialistic programmes.

Relate how Ronald Reagan flip-flopped on taxes after having raised them once early on in his first term to his having seen the light. Tell the voters about RR's writing of the most liberal abortion law to his having characterized that bill as his biggest mistake. Explain about RR's change of parties and then say just as cleverly as he, without plagiarizing, that the (D) party left him.

Else NRO and Ramesh Ponnuru print pre-primary articles focusing on flip-flopping.

My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger. We made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all. -- Ronald Regan Farewell Address--