I just finished reading a wonderful interview with John Kerry from Salon.com. I highly recommend reading it. It is well worth your time. Here is just a piece I snipped of Kerry's response to the question of being called a 'flipflopper':
""I'll tell you what. What's really so craven about it is that they pick something that they implement badly and screw up, like Iraq or No Child Left Behind or the Patriot Act. And when you point out that they screwed it up, they say that you're 'flip-flopping.'Posted by Paul Hina at May 28, 2004 12:40 PM"But they, on the other hand, break a promise to have no deficit, break a promise not to invade Social Security, break a promise to fund No Child Left Behind, break a promise to introduce the four-pollutant bill and move forward on the environment, break a promise to deal with the real health issues and prescription drugs, break a promise of humility in American foreign policy. I mean, you start running down the list -- I've never seen a grander array of flip-flops. This is the biggest 'say one thing, do another' administration in modern history."