# The most liberal AND a flip-flopper?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 13, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-liberal-and-a-flip-flopper/264217 "2004-09-13T04:40:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![fervour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fervour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fervour)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-liberal-and-a-flip-flopper/264217/41 "2004-09-18T13:52:41Z")

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Kerry can be the most liberal and a flip-flopper. Consider the possibility that he votes liberal 60% of the time and flip-flops on the other 40% of the issues. There you have it, a genuine liberal flip-flopper. I’m not saying I subscribe to that view; just that it’s possible scenario.

It’s not going to affect my vote. I’m voting straight Democratic party to show how vehemently opposed I am to the current administration.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-liberal-and-a-flip-flopper/264217/42 "2004-09-18T15:56:05Z")

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> [@jshore](#):
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> Well, I don’t understand the reasoning either as it is not mine. We were just taking **riserius1** ’s reasoning re-quoted below to it’s logical conclusion. I am in no way endorsing that reasoning!!! I think it is a silly use of the word “flip-flop”. (Or I suppose you could read his statement to be that this would be an example of “a pattern of contradiction”…but whatever. It makes little sense either way!)

OK, sorry I misread your post. I agree that the term 'flip-flopper" is virtually impossible to prove or disprove and is not particularly enlightening in this campaign, but it does work.

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