Besides, the cold water is raining down regardless. Obama's recent fire sale 
on his left-wing positions in order to raise capital with centrists has 
understandably prompted lamentations from the idealistic left.
 But Obama has a less-than-humble response to these whiners. He says they're 
the cynical ones, even as he strokes the Second Amendment like it was Ernst 
Blofeld's cat and tut-tuts the moodiness of women who want late-term 
abortions.
 It seems Barack Obama believes the measure of one's idealism or cynicism 
rests on a single criterion: How much you support The One. After all, he's not 
really answerable to the voters, but to the steady gaze of his own conscience. 
And, by that unimpeachable standard, Obama's still the one he's been waiting 
for.