Kerry: Flip-Flopping Away

Does Senator John Kerry stand for anything? Apparently not. Here's Kerry on August 11th, blasting President Bush's proposed troop draw-down in Europe and Korea:

Wednesday Mr Kerry said the president's withdrawal plan was misguided. "Nobody wants to bring troops home more than those of us who have fought in foreign wars, but it needs to be done at the right time and in a sensible way. This is not that time or that way," he said. "Why are we unilaterally withdrawing 12,000 troops from the Korean Peninsula at the very time we are negotiating with North Korea - a country that really has nuclear weapons?" he added. He said the move risked alienating US allies at a time when the support of such allies is needed in the global fight against al-Qaeda.

And, courtesy of Just One Minute, here's Kerry just ten days earlier (August 1) on ABC’s "This Week":

If the diplomacy that I believe can be put in place can work, I think we can significantly change the deployment of troops, not just there but elsewhere in the world. In the Korean peninsula perhaps, in Europe perhaps. There are great possibilities open to us. But this administration has had very little imagination, enormous sort of ideological fixation and, frankly, took its eye off the war against al Qaeda and the war on terror shifting it to Iraq at enormous cost to the American people and to the legitimacy of the war on terror.

So, yes, Kerry does have principles--he favors whatever George Bush doesn't. Vice President Cheney ridiculed Kerry's waffle:

Just over two weeks ago, Senator Kerry talked about the merits of troop realignment in Europe and Asia. 'There are great possibilities open to us,' he said. Yesterday he said it was a bad idea. The one consistency we have seen from Senator Kerry is that he is willing to take any position on any issue if he thinks it will benefit him politically. As we saw yesterday, these political calculations even include his positions on our national security.

Campaigning without convictions is contemptible. Jim Geraghty on NRO's KerrySpot says:

I suspect this kind of stuff makes the average voter think that if Bush said the sun was going to set in the west, Kerry would insist that was wrong and obviously it was going to set in the east.

I agree with True Blue Gal--Kerry's nuts.