I'm Nicola Karras, the other David All Group summer intern. I'll be a Yale junior in the fall, and up there our Right-Wing Conspiracy is decidedly not Vast; I'm very excited to be here and to be blogging at TechRepublican.

This afternoon, my video camera and I joined MoveOn.org volunteers outside the Dupont Circle Metro. They were in the middle of their “Bush-McCain Challenge,” asking innocent passers-by to guess whether a random fact described the President, Senator McCain, or both. The point, of course (subtly driven home by the enormous red signs reading BUSH = MCCAIN and featuring a picture of the two men arm-in-arm), was to convince voters that...well, Bush and McCain have a lot in common.

MoveOn is clearly going after the coveted “I Didn’t Realize John McCain Was a Republican” demographic. Most of their points were blindingly obvious: McCain likes guns and privatization, but dislikes abortion. MoveOn also wants you to know that he graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at Annapolis, because nothing is more relevant to political leadership than a man's academic performance 50 years ago.

"It seems like this is just going to make the people who already like him like him more, and the people who dislike him like him less," I pointed out to the organizer. "It isn't going to change anyone's mind."

"Well," she said, "yeah." But that isn't the point. Why strive for discourse when you can have political theater?

(That theater coming soon, in the form of a YouTube/Eyeblast video; my faithful computer is still chugging through the footage.)