Your Say: Do flip-flops matter to voters? Yes and no.
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Double flips? Triple flips? Quadruple flips? It is hard to count with Mitt Romney. The credible candidate, consistently in the middle, has been President Obama.
Yes, the right sees Obama as a leftist, and the left sees him as giving in too much to the right. Centrists see him as a pragmatist. Let's get beyond labels and into substance.
Theodosius Mandelbrot
Flip-flop? You mean the thing Obama's administration had been doing daily over Libya? We didn't know. Well, we did. We said it was terrorism. It was a YouTube video that inspired the protests. No it wasn't. Just a regime full of deceit.
We all know the plan: Push the Libya story past the election.
Nyx VonDog
The fact that Romney stands for no particular ideology doesn't bother me. The man has good judgment and an honest character. Those are qualities we can use in the White House.
Dan Tiede
How can you know where Romney stands on anything? He has been on both sides of everything. He went right to get the far right vote and has now gone almost left to get the moderate vote. I'm shocked the far right hasn't disowned him.
Joe Zinich
Many people were suspicious of Obama when he changed his stance on same-sex marriage. However, I don't see conservatives applying the same level of scrutiny to their candidate. The fact that Romney constantly changes his stance is a real issue.
I don't mind when a candidate changes his stance on something, but I get suspicious when he does it too often. Can we trust Romney to follow through with what he is currently stating, or should we expect him to take up his previous stances?
Randy Miller
Don't forget about Obama's shift to the center for the election. Stop trying to make out that Romney is the only one who shifts from time to time.
Mervin Delgado
Letters to the editor:
The election must be won by Americans, not a political party. Your spot-on editorial stating we need people of goodwill who will stop drawing lines in the sand, stop party gatekeeping, and put the national interest first was brilliant ("Intense focus on White House overshadows Congress' role," The election debate, Monday). On the same page, a column outlined the root causes of problems that eventually led to the Arab Spring. I found frightening similarities: corruption in government and an increasingly uncivil society. Super PACS now sit in the shadows and require strict allegiance for their financial support. Also, consider the vitriolic campaign ads, name-calling and the hatred of people who have a different race or sexual orientation. Lastly, I question if media are really free when some are owned by corporations such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Eileen McDargh; Dana Point, Calif.
Listening to Mitt Romney is like going to the ice cream shop in the mall. If you don't like his speech this week, he will offer you a different flavored speech next week.
William Dodd Brown; Chicago