It just happens to be the most politically expedient view.
Early frontrunner Mitt Romney has spent the last four years approaching the Platonic ideal of the shameless panderer who, when expedient, adopts positions that are diametrically opposed to one another.
Nonetheless, Labour leaders also felt compelled to appear "strong" when they were quite often defensively expedient or in a weak position.
He doesn't really care about abortion, gun control, immigration, stem cells, foreign policy or even health care reform, so it was easy to take whatever position was politically expedient at the time.
Those who oppose Murray's conclusions will undoubtedly consider them "simplistic," since elaborate and even convoluted arguments are considered signs of sophistication, rather than desperate expedients to try to salvage a position contrary to plain facts and plain logic.
And temporary, and expedient it is, in ISIS' view.
Heatherwick is very civic-minded – not in a politically expedient way, it seems, but from a position of logic.
Florian Philippot, who looks after the front's communication strategy, is a thirty-something graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, an elite school, and just the sort of egghead insider whom the party used to decry.For all Ms Le Pen's efforts, voters might eventually wise up to the front leader's willingness to change her position if it is politically expedient.
Trump has proved over the years to be a shape-shifter when it is expedient, changing priorities or reversing his policy positions altogether to adapt to the political winds.
