RADICAL CHIC AND “THE GAY MAU-MAUING” OF THE BARACK CATCHER: James Taranto on “Why Obama Flipped.”

RELATED: Jonah Goldberg explores how Obama’s fundraising campaign – a sort of presidential primary with only one candidate (if you discount Keith Judd) — pushes him to the left: “Nearly everything we’ve seen from Obama in the last five months has been an attempt to re-create the institutional benefits of a primary season without having an actual opponent.”

More from Jennifer Rubin who adds that Obama’s “mask of moderation is gone. He’s out there waving the bloody shirt in the class and gender wars…If you think about it, just about everything Obama has done over the last year has been designed to corral the left. Now, what’s he going to do to win the voters who matter most?”