Gillibrand’s ‘Compass’

It took all of 13 days for New York’s newly re-elected junior senator to execute a perfect 180-degree reversal on running for president — which is pretty fast, even for Kirsten “Flip-Flop” Gillibrand.

On Stephen Colbert’s late-night show Thursday — her first stop on a major postelection media tour — Gillibrand said she’ll be giving a 2020 run “a long, hard thought of consideration.”

Of course, her White House dreams have been all over the news for quite some time. But in her Oct. 24 debate with GOP opponent Chele Farley, Gillibrand flatly declared: “I will serve my six-year term.” Did she mean the one she’s now finishing? Then again, Gillibrand has built her whole career on flip-flops. While representing a conservative upstate House district, she was a pistol-totin’, hard-line-on-immigration, Israel-supporting, pro-Wall-Street kind of gal. (And that was after her years as a lawyer for Big Tobacco.)

The moment she was named to Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, she morphed overnight into a gun-control hawk, pro-immigration, soft-on-Israel foe of the “corporate interests” that “control the agenda in Washington.”

She even blamed her old constituents for her “embarrassing” earlier positions, suggesting the district was too white for her to fully understand the issues.

Now, having spent almost nothing on her easy Senate victory, she’s got a $10.7 million campaign kitty — putting her way ahead of most other Democratic contenders.

So she’s telling Colbert (and anyone else who’ll listen) she thinks maybe she’s the one “to restore the moral compass of this country.”

What does Kirsten Gillibrand know about a “moral compass”? As her entire political career has proven, the only compass she has is what works best for her politically at any given moment. There’s nothing “moral” about it.