To replace "flip flop" or not .George deserves a special term all his own

[MissMarple]

to describe his various ummm...shall we say vacillations and equivocations other than the now ubiquitous "flip flop", IMHO. Sad to say but "flip flop" puts one so in mind of Kerry, thanks to the Republican lying spin machine. So, I looked up "flip flop" in the thesaurus. Here are some possible alternatives. I kind of like "retreat" "backpedal" and "waffle". But something more pithy would be good. If we should come up with some others to seriously consider a poll might be fun.

"Main Entry: hedge
Part of Speech: verb 1
Definition: avoid
Synonyms: be noncommittal, beat around, cop out, CYA, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, flip flop, fudge, get around, jive, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, run around, shilly-shally, shuck, shuffle, sidestep, stall, stonewall, temporize, tergiversate, tergiverse, waffle, weasel
Antonyms: come to the point
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
Copyright © 2005 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Main Entry: reverse
Part of Speech: verb 1
Definition: flip
Synonyms: about face, back, back up, backpedal, backtrack, capsize, double back, evaginate, evert, exchange, flip flop, go back, go backwards, interchange, inverse, invert, move backwards, overturn, rearrange, retreat, revert, shift, switcheroo, transfer, transplace, transpose, turn around, turn back, turn over, upend, upset
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
Copyright © 2005 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved."

[Island Blue]

1. How about "liar"?

He seems to lie more than flip flop.

[MissMarple]

2. True, but how would it fit in a headline and could it catch on outside DU?

We know he is a liar, but he is a bold liar. we need a shilly shally, wishy washey, cowardly retreating kind of image. :)

[PurgedVoter]

3. George Weasle Bush

The W tells it like it is!

[MissMarple]

5. Weasel is good.

I also saw somewhere here a post saying the "W" stickers are more like wastikas. Quite humorous.

[MockSwede]

29. Waffle

I suggest George WAFFLE Bush. Or George Wiff Bush. Wiff, I prefer since he's a do nothing. Just like a huge swing in wiffle ball! Big action, no (real)effect. And it has the nice secondary meaning - something you do with a particular look on your face after walking barefoot in the grassy yard that a dog has also 'visited' recently. Or WIFFLE-WAFFLE.

[MissMarple]

35. I also found whiff.

George "The Whiffer" Bush, it puts me in mind of "The Gipper" but with a slightly different twist, don't you think?

www.dictionary.reference.com

v. whiffed, whiff·ing, whiffs
v. intr.
To be carried in brief gusts; waft: puffs of smoke whiffing from the chimney.
Sports. To swing at and miss a ball or puck.
Baseball. To strike out. Used of a batter.

[louis-t]

4. 'Hedge' goes well with 'shrub'

I like 'weasel'. 'Evaginate' is great, too. * would never be able to pronouncerate it.

[MissMarple]

6. LOL "The Shrub Hedges Again".

[Sparkly]

12. Good point!! nt

[shraby]

7. Spinning wheel n/t

[MissMarple]

8. Good, a crooked spinning wheel forcing the train off the tracks.

:)

[shraby]

9. Not only that, a spinning wheel spins yarns.

[MissMarple]

11. All too true.

:)

[dalaigh lllama]

10. Bush waffle = bushwa full n/t

[MissMarple]

13. Very funny. A new use for old slang.

I found this at http://www.wordsmith.org/words/bushwa.html

(BUSH-wa) noun, also bushwah

Nonsense; bull.

[dalaigh lllama]

19. Thanks, MissMarple

This is a fun thread.

We could also use one of their favorite parrot phrases (Baawwk! Up or Down! Up or Down!)to describe Bush's meandering mindset: upperdowner

[Geoff R. Casavant]

14. I go for "swiftly retreated"

[MissMarple]

15. Good one. Bush Swiftly Retreated From His Former Position.

And doesn't he do just that ALL the time?

[Yoda Yada]

16. "Weasel" is Navajo code talk for "W"

I like Weasel. The Navajo codetalkers used the Navajo word for weasel to represent the letter "W". How appropriate. The weasel's habit of sucking the contents out of an egg while leaving the shell superficially intact is exactly what Bush is doing to our country!

I also think "turncoat" might work. Bush has changed allegiance. He doesn't stand up for the average American, he stands up for big corporations and the Neo-con philosophy. (That word...turncoat...would also work in demonstrations...people just turn their coats, shirts, sweaters around. Wear them backwards.)

[Yoda Yada]

17. "Turncoat"....

Bush has changed his allegiance. He doesn't represent the American people anymore....he represents greed, deception and abolishing the Constitution.

I'd say he is a "turncoat" (Wear your coat backwards when demonstrating.)

[MissMarple]

21. Welcome to DU Yoda Yada! Thank you for your insight.

And I agree, George doesn't represent the principles of our constitution and the philosphy of our forebears, women and men alike. They fought for truth and civil rights as we still do today.

[MockSwede]

30. Turncoats

Like it. ear them backards! Made me think of

GWB = oing affling ackwards

or

GWB = oes affling ackwards

Hey, maybe the deletion of the letters works even better, but I was using brackets{< >} around letters to highlight.

{G}oing {W}affling {B}ackwards

and

{G}oes {W}affling {B}ackwards

Ooooops.

[tk2kewl]

18. Bush is PUSSYfooting around the issue

he should show some courage and confront the issue head on

I like pussyfooting as a frame for obvious reasons

[MissMarple]

22. So, are calling George a ...pussy? LOL

LOLROF!

[IDemo]

20. From the synonyms noted above,

"Beat around the bush Bush" seems to fit.

[MissMarple]

23. You make a most excellent point.

George does really "beat around the bush". Hummm... That wasn't just a tad "off color" was it? :)

[rumpel]

24. "tergiversating flimflammer"

con artist
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: confidence man
Synonyms: bilker, bunco, cheater, clip artist, con man, crook, deceiver, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, hoser, hustler, mountebank, scam artist, scammer, shark, sharpie, smoothie, swindler
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
Copyright © 2005 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Would love to see * say it.

:evilgrin:

[MissMarple]

25. I like the way you think!

:bounce:

[rumpel]

26. Also envision the "other" blogsite struggle

[MissMarple]

27. Major translating issues? LOL

[rumpel]

28. kick

[Stinky The Clown]

31. Waffle

It has the same silliness as flip flop (as used against Kerry). It is a meaningless gesture, just like flip flop is. It has great possibilties for visuals. It has great synonyms (EggoMan comes to mind).

The only downside is one can't wear waffles as a way to protest.

[MissMarple]

32. Waffle is good.

The Denver Post used it to describe George in an editorial, I think on Tuesday.

[Dr Fate]

33. Bush has "Credibility Issues." n/t

n/t

[ElsewheresDaughter]

34. CRAWDADDY

[ElsewheresDaughter]

36. Bush bin Lyin

[ElsewheresDaughter]

37. UnbelieveaBush