It’s peevish enough the extent to which commercial political media crushes so heavy on a politician’s perceived “flip flops,” roundly denouncing any slight shift in opinion and.or policy positioning as horribly offensive/hillariously mockable pussyfooting*.

But are reporters really going to start spending a lot of time drawing wildly unjustified conclusions from minute changes to political websites? As if slight revisions made to website copy offers stunning insight into a politician’s unprincipled soul; the magic of Google Cache herein utilized as the deus ex machina of dickish reporting.

* “Pussyfooting” pops up so commonly in polite writing, it clearly must have evolved from pussy as cat rather than pussy meaning vag, which totally makes the word a lot less useful.