One of the more entertaining things about the McCain campaign is that it's completely irresponsible, in every possible way.

My favorite example is his position on offshore oil drilling. For openers, this position makes his allegedly sincere commitment to the environment look like a load of crap. Even worse, offshore oil drilling won't have any significant effect on gas prices, ever, and everyone knows it -- even McCain, who when this was pointed out to him, floundered his way into some of the most preposterous bullshit imaginable, claiming that while drilling won't provide consumers "immediate relief" it "would have a psychological impact that I think is beneficial."

Right. By all accounts, smoking crack also has a psychological impact that is immediately perceived as beneficial. But in the long run smoking crack is not exactly a wise choice, especially if you're aware that you need to stop smoking crack because you're addicted to it. And McCain is supposedly all about making sure we break that addiction to "foreign oil" -- and he wants to do it by offering a quick high, and then, uh, nothing. To continue the substance abuse metaphor: "my friends, we all need to stop boozing. Therefore, we must smash all these liquor bottles and lick the shards until our tongues are bloody. Then we can, you know, import more alcohol."

It's absurd, but this is really just one example of the fact that McCain's entire case for why he deserves to be president is, to put it bluntly, horseshit. McCain will lie, twist, weasel, and pander. Might as well elect a crack dealer. Which is something you're not supposed to say, but there you go. Maybe you're not supposed to call Ron Fournier a useless horrible little shitweasel either, but I just did and I just possibly may say worse in the next several weeks, too. Hope I'm not the only one lobbing grenades, either.