As you know, this administration has a strong record against flip-flops.
—White House spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore
The George Bush wears the Crocs! The Manolo is not the political person, but this is the last straw!
A “shoo in” was originally a horse that was expected to win a race, not by virtue of its speed or endurance, but because the race was fixed. The sardonic “subtext” of the original usage, now lost, was that the designated horse would win even if it were so lackadaisical in its performance that it simply wandered somehow up to the finish line and had to be “shooed in” to victory.