Barry the Kid's HopeMobile

In this brief sound bite, brought to you by Hugh Hewitt, Barry the Kid demonstrates why he is so dangerous when he strays from the teleprompter and starts to wax gauzy about his utopian schemes. In this example he imagines a world of sunshine and lollipops where we never had to defend ourselves from dictators like Saddam and instead spent billions on a new kind of engine that apparently runs on hemp-powered windmills and recycled free-range chicken droppings instead of that nasty oil from big AmeriKan Korporations that make big evil profits.

Seriously folks, this guy is dim as a 10 watt bulb. Automobile companies all over the world are always trying to find new ways to improve the vehicles that they make. And generally cars have gotten better over the years. Today I drive an Exterra that gets about 25 miles to the gallon (as long as I don't race around like I'm in the Indy 500). That is a significant improvement over the VW station wagon that I drove back in my student days. That car got about the same mileage, but was much lighter in weight. My current vehicle is larger and therefore it is much more efficient pound for pound than what I was driving 30 years ago. But technology tends to improve step by step. Sudden transformations from one kind of technology to another are rare and unpredictable. No one can see them before they arrive. And they aren't brought about by any actions taken by government bureaucrats.

Barry the Kid's ignorance and stupidity would crush the American economy. Indeed, we are already suffering due to the policies put in place over the years by the environmentalist left. For decades we have been slowly hamstringing ourselves. Our best people in energy, science and business have been kept from doing their jobs for as long as I can remember. No drilling, no new refineries, no new nuclear power plants, no coal to liquid technology, no development of oil shale. The list goes on and on. What it all has in common is the left's hatred of American capitalism and progress and their desire to see America cut down to size. A size that is more to their liking.

So if you want to drive one of these, vote for Obama in the fall. He will give you a lower standard of living if that is what you want. But if you are weary of the constant attacks on America by the left and the inch by inch destruction of the American way of life, and if you are a Democrat who has voted for them year after year, then it is time for you to reconsider why you have been voting for the Democrats and what you think it will bring you in the long run. Because the long run is finally here at last.