But "political thought" would be an oxymoron, right?

Robert Reich (The Triumph of Dogma, and a Sad Goodbye to David Frum)

The American public doesn’t want or need to hear “representatives” from the so-called right or left. It wants insight into what’s best for America. 

Yet over and over again — on the radio, on TV, in print, in the blogosphere, and all over Washington — political ideology is substituting for thought.