Glass half full?

Leave it to Hugh to put a positive spin on the disaster that is John McCain's energy policy.

Skeptics about any aspect of the global warming debate --the significance of the temperature rise, its origins, or the ability of humans to affect the temperature change-- thus have a choice: A candidate with a plan that includes a push for nuclear energy and accountability for China and other rapidly industrializing countries, or a candidate who will push an America-first, only, and without nuclear power plan.

McCain has occupied the center on this debate, and the GOP and conservatives should get over it and begin working to keep enough Republican senators in place to assure that President McCain's emphasis on a new generation of nuclear power plants becomes a reality, thus keeping cap-and-trade from becoming a suffocating blanket.

If cap-and-trade leads to the long overdue renaissance of nuclear power plant construction and generation in the U.S., it will have been a very good thing indeed....

It is clear that our maverick friend is the lesser of three evils, and maybe Hugh's got a point. If McCain can use the global warming silliness as a means to promote a revival of nuclear energy in the US, that would indeed be a positive outcome.

Still, I have a difficult time being enthusiastic about a candidate who has drunk Al Gore's kool aid.