What Flip-Flop?

Basically, I think Gail Collins puts more thought into what she writes than just about anyone who is called a pundit these days, and I think she's sensible. Sometimes she's just stupid, but that's better than Dowd, who's always stupid. Tidbit:

You liked Barack because you thought he could get us past the old brain-dead politics, right? He talked — and talked and talked — about how there were going to be no more red states and blue states, how he was going to bring Americans together, including Republicans and Democrats. Exactly where did everybody think this gathering was going to take place? Left field?