2008 and the realignment of the GOP

Whoever wins the White House on Tuesday, we will see a realignment of conservative politics in this country. The pendulum of the country is swinging leftward as George W. Bush’s policy has effectively ended the momentum of the Reagan era. 
Ronald Reagan’s presidency represented at rightward shift in American politics to a pro-business, anti-tax, pro-military, pro-imperial [...]

Context, Context, Context!

Two cents on the issue of socialism as it pertains to this campaign and the potential future economy of this country. This notion of “spreading the wealth around” as the platform of Obama’s economic strategy is malarkey. The notion that Obama is a socialist is malarkey. The reason being that this fit-for-scrutiny soundbite extracted [...]

McCain and Palin: Socialists?

An exchange from the 2000 campaign on MSNBC’s Hardball (quoted nimbly in the New Yorker): 
During the 2000 campaign, on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” a young woman asked him why her father, a doctor, should be “penalized” by being “in a huge tax bracket.” McCain replied that “wealthy people can afford more” and that “the very wealthy, because [...]

Obama versus McCain…here on thinkPOP

ThinkPOP like any blog lives on it’s search engine recognition. Well for some reason (reasons I certainly do not understand) a post of ours on John McCain has remained high on Google searches and may be unfairly slanting readers to think that we’ve only issued challenges to John McCain. The post dates back to August [...]

Batman as Barack – McCain as Penguin

This is beyond funny – consider the parallels between this old clip from the Batman television series and our current election. Burgess Meredith is the bomb.

Quick Hit: Managing Expectations

For those of you wondering how bad (or good) Senator McCain’s chances are and are confused by the endless horserace style coverage let me try to break it down simply.
Basically Obama is running hard in states Bush won in 2004. While the electoral map is largely the same, in terms of battleground states. Obama [...]

For those who say McCain doesn’t have a platform…

John McCain believes in you, the middle class worker. He’s scared by this new socialist redistribution of wealth. Why should the government take hypothetical money out of your hands, should you ever win the lottery or miraculously earn a degree, which enables you to earn over 250,000 dollars a year? Don’t vote for Barack Obama, [...]

The Real Star of Last Night’s Debate is a Modern Day Super Mario

A quick assessment of last night’s debate: McCain failed to persuade anyone of anything but that he can get flustered and confused with the best of them…Obama continued to be the coolest kitty in the cathouse, floating like a butterfly but failing to sting like a bee…and Bob Schieffer proved beyond the shadow of a [...]

William Kristol Begs: Let McCain be McCain

In his NY Times Column this week, William Kristol wants McCain to fire his campaign staff and work from the gut. He writes:
The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic…. 
…What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing [...]

Omigod, It’s Obama O’s!

Yes, it’s the breakfast cereal of change! Hope in every bowl! Check out this amazing site for Obama O’s and Cap’n McCain’s Cereal. The theme songs are priceless. And yes, you can buy the cereal…and eat it, too!