The charge of flip-flopping is often misapplied.

Reasons to agree

1. People often misrepresent other people's actions as flip-flopping.
2. Those who don't agree with either extreme will explain why they don't agree with the first extreme, and the next day they will explain why they don't agree with the second extreme. Those with political agendas will point out that a simplified understanding of a person who doesn't believe in either extreme, in which those explanations are taken to illogical extremes, will contradict. For instance people will say that Mitt Romney is a flip-flopper, when one day he says gays should get SOME rights, and the next day he says gays should not have EVERY right. They say that Mitt Romney wants to have it both ways, just because he doesn't agree with either extreme. He doesn't hate gays, but he wants to do everything he can to say that children deserve a mother and a father.
3. People say; Romney changed his position on gay marriage. He did not.
4. Because politicians represent the people, when they go to represent different people, a few of their positions can change. Politicians should represent the will of the people they represent.
5. This flyer from 1994 shows that Romney has only changed his position on Abortion. The rest of the accusations are lies from those who appose him.