Libertarian Think Tank

I have to admit that I didn’t know who Bob Barr was until he introduced Ron Paul at CPAC:

I have become impressed with him. He worked for the CIA in the 70’s, so he had some fed cred before becomming a Republican Congressman from Georgia. He became a vocal critic of the Bush Administration while in office and while Democrats kept their Bush-hate underground. Now he is a prominent member of the ACLU, a good ‘ol fashioned conservative, and the Libertarian candidate for President. He has all the right things to say.

Timothy Garon, the Seattle musician who was refused a liver transplant by a University of Washington Medical Center comittee for using doctor-prescribed marijuana, has died.  

Here is a link to his music

And here is a more dignified picture than the Seattle Times afforded him:

Does anyone have a link to the organ-monopolist’s point of view?

I got wind that there was an effort to draft Alaska’s Governor, Sarah Palin to serve as John “Washington Changed Me” McCain’s Vice President. I didn’t realize the scope of the movement until I learned that Newt Gingrich is pushing the idea as well.

I’ll make this quick:

Why would any real conservative want to see that disaster? Sarah Palin is a faithful conservative. She spanked incumbent, Republican governor Frank Murkowski in the last election precisely because he prostituted his conservative principles for personal gain and she regularly, retroactively embarrasses his administration for the same reason.

Why would she sell her soul to serve under an even bigger sellout -an admitted sellout, no less? I’m all for a Sarah Palin presidency, especially considering that she’s one of the few standup conservatives left in the party. Heck, I’ll run her campaign in 2012 or 2016. But I couldn’t stomach the spectacle of her nodding along as McCain spews his interventionist, neocon agenda, which she would be required to do, no doubt. I couldn’t watch the Republican Party’s Richard Perle/William Kristol/David Frum faction close in on her like a pack of infectious zombies whose only relief from the pain of being undead is to breach the integrity of the conservative soul, turn it inside out, and thusly make more neocon zealots. Worse, I bristle at the idea of a woman, who is immensely more qualified to be a Republican President than John McCain, doing his bidding.

No Ma’am. If Sarah Palin gives McCain anything, it ought to be her Murkowski treatment.