Beer in the Headlights

Nutter Fest

They scheduled the convention to coincide with the Colorado Renaissance Festival in order to boost attendance.

Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr was nominated yesterday as the Libertarian Party's candidate for the U.S. presidency, defeating a crowded field in a raucous convention vote that went to six ballots.

Mr. Barr, a conservative standard-bearer who switched to the Libertarian Party less than two years ago, defeated Mary Ruwart, a biophysicist and longtime party activist, by 54 percent to 46 percent in the final ballot. Delegates late last night agreed that Wayne Allyn Root, a celebrity sports handicapper, would be Mr. Barr's running mate.

I wonder what Root thinks of their odds.

OK, the convention is over. Everyone can now return to their mothers' basements or backwoods bunkers.

I wonder how Bob Barr feels about his running mate. The dude is an oddsmaker with an unhealthy affinity for hair styling products.