Which candidates are flip flopping from being bought out with campaign contributions and favors. This includes Trump after that budget he just released. Is Sanders the only player who won’t be bought out? Is being bought out even bad? As an aside: Are all NBA buyouts quid pro quo’s?
Flip-flopping would mean they previously pledged not to accept big money contributions. I'm not sure which ones actually pledged to do that.
Give me some rope here. "Buyouts" can be favors ... not always money. I could have used Quid-out Candidate, but doesn't have the same ring. Who is allowing their platform to flip-flop? Aren't those who are changing their minds due to either backroom QPQs, or poll-watching candidates (e.g., "You need to change your message to win voters")? Either way, they are selling out their own ideas, if they really even have any. Like I said, is it even bad? For instance, surely Trump flip-flopped his way into the office by finding and riding a wave. And now he probably owes plenty of favors to Senators ... can you imagine him running in 2016 on that new budget...for instance. How much more will he flop leading up to November. Do you think he has his own ideas? Honest question. I don't know his platform.
It makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification. However, since these guys don't really have power yet, it still seems a little early to judge them flip-floppers yet. I think probably most of them have the potential to flip-flop offer quid pro quo etc. Bernie probably least, I think the others may flip-flop twice. They would willingly change the platform to get support but would also flip-flop again if they held power. I do think it makes sense to have attention paid to this stuff and the more scrutiny these folks go through the better.
Mostly yes. There has some allegations of Bloomberg copying other's position papers. The Democrat candidates's position are so closely aligned with the differences so trivially nuanced, that I think this is much ado about nothing.
