The thing that won the 2000 and 2004 elections for Bush, more than anything else, was a really strong get-out-the-vote effort in critical swing states. So seeing the McCain campaign decide to spend its last several million dollars on ad… Continue Reading
A leader need not have all the answers to all of the problems that the leader must confront. This is to say, not personally. The point of leadership is that you are the one in charge of a team of… Continue Reading
And it has good production values! H/T to Melinda.
Andrew Sullivan, an unabashed Obama Republican, offers ten reasons why conservatives should vote for Obama next week. I can’t blame the guy for trying. And he’s got some good points. But he’s got some weak ones, too. Read Sully first… Continue Reading
The First Amendment protects all sorts of people. Including neo-nazi skinheads. But what it doesn’t protect is a plot to murder someone. Particularly if that someone is about to become, or has just become, the President of the United States.… Continue Reading
I want to eat at their house.
A sub-issue in the campaign this year has been what the proper role for the Vice President should be. It’s difficult to remember a time that the Vice President took a passive role in the government. Certainly the last two… Continue Reading
I first saw this idea in a column by David Brooks in the New York Times: The Republican Party is become the party of anti-intellectualism: What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated… Continue Reading
First of all, the verb “incent.” I heard it first last week and I became infatuated. It’s obnoxious, callous, bastardized, and artificial. The English language molded into plastic, the thick, stiff kind of plastic used to print credit cards. It’s… Continue Reading
Elbot does not pass the Turing Test. But it does represent an effort to try, and it is moderately entertaining for a short period of time. Here’s a sample of my conversation with Elbot: Elbot: I realize this is a… Continue Reading