As I noted in my prior post, John McCain is going out of his way to poke conservatives in the eye on virtually every major issue. Yet the Republican Party is on the verge of nominated him for president.

If I may engage in a bit of straight talk, to use the candidate's term, this will be the second time in a row the GOP has nominated to the highest office in the land a man who has a good personality but who is both intellectually lazy as well as not that bright to begin with.

And then there's the fact that both George Bush and John McCain have always been proponents of immigration amnesty and open borders. And both are believers in big government as well as extending the American welfare state to the Mideast.

But what is the alternative?

I've become interested in the Libertarian Party candidate, Bob Barr.

Here's an interview with Barr in which he gives a good account of himself.

An excerpt:

Q. Do you think if McCain becomes president, we'll be stuck in the same position for another four years?

A. Based on the statements he's made, yes. I mean, McCain may think it's fine to spend $400 million a day as far into the future as anyone can see, but that's not his money. This is the problem. These folks in Washington might think it's a great mission we're serving over there, but is this the wisest use of taxpayer money? Is it more important to spend billions of dollars improving Iraq's infrastructure or improving the infrastructure of our own country?



Q. Does it make you question McCain's conservative credentials to see him support such a costly war?



A. I'm not sure that anybody can legitimately say that McCain is conservative.

Update: Just to balance out McCain's stupidity on energy policy, look at this clip of Senator Harry Reid telling us how we have to stop using fossil fuels. I doubt if a President Obama would be dumb enough to listen to such Democratic leaders on energy, but if he did he'd be a one-termer for sure. Imagine trying to heat your house with solar energy in a New Jersey winter.