He accused me of being a tax-and-spend liberal, a Jimmy Carter clone, and a waffler who couldn't make up his mind.

他指责我是一个只知道增加税收和开支的自由派，是第二个吉米·卡特，墙头草，一个举棋不定的人。

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Indeed, one of the little-noticed reasons that Kerry did not get a bigger bounce from the DNC was that day after day and night after night, Republicans got out their message into both national and local media: that he was avoiding a liberal Senate record and is a waffler.

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