The Real McCain

If the CERN Large Hadron Collider doesn’t end the world as we know it, we still have John Sidney McCain as the backup plan.

There is a big difference though. The LHC, if it’s experiments successfully bear out hypotheses, may provide physicists with a new understanding of the workings of the universe so fundamental that they will be able to fit the final few pieces of data into the final touches of a coherent Theory of Everything so complete that the fantasy of an invisible man in the sky ruling the universe will at long last be laid to rest, for anyone capable of critical thinking and reason at least, and the irrational dream world that people like McCain, Dobson, Bush, Palin, Kristol, Lieberman, Scheunemann and others inhabit may be one step closer to coming to an end.

On the other hand, if we are still here on November 08 an electoral win by McCain may simply set in motion the final few mindless political and military moves that will ultimately destroy America, civilization as we know it, and the environmental capability of the earth to support life.

Matt Welch, Editor in Chief of Reason Magazine, talking with Paul Jay of The Real News explains and provides a history of McCain and his ties to militant neocons.

September 7, 2008 – 8 min 25 sec

No moderate, no realist, McCain the neocon

Matt Welch is a journalist, blogger, pundit and a libertarian. Since 2008, he has been the editor-in-chief at the monthly libertarian journal, Reason. Recently (from 2006 to 2007), he was an editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times. He has written a portrayal of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, from a libertarian perspective. In McCain: The Myth of a Maverick, Welch argues that a McCain presidency would advance a statist agenda.