Reading all of the "Dean is toast" stories on Kos and around the net, and the barrage of sore winner rants from the Edwards and Kerry supporters, I have started to think "Sh-t! The Dem nominee might be a pro-Iraq War advocate!"
This creates problems for the media, I suppose... how will the debate make-up people blot out the blood on Bush's and Kerry's/Edward's hands?
But I digress. I, and a lot of other lefties will be morally incapable of voting for Edwards or Kerry, who are still proud of their key roles in starting this tragic war.
So we are going to have to go 3rd party again, and send a message to the Dems that they obviously did not get in 2000.
An independent Nader run doesn't intrigue me, so who should the Greens run? There must be a strong anti-war candidate on the ballot.
Peter Camejo, or that guy who barely lost the SF mayoraliship would be possibilities... but I think the Greens should jump on the opportunity to find an anti-war celebrity who would be willing to run. A Paul Newman or a Warren Beatty... this is just too good of an opportunity to hit 5 percent. I also think there is a chance that Bush would agree to allow the candidate to appear at the debates, this time. A great opportunity to let America know that it is acceptable to be against an immoral and murderous war.
So what are the thoughts of the Greens and the people on the board with a history of voting 3rd party? Please, I would rather not have to wade through whining comment after whining comment from Dem's saying that a 3rd party candidate would "steal" votes from a pro-war Dem, as if the party owns liberals, and we have some indentured servitude to the party.
This may surprise a lot of you, but many of us will be unable to vote for a pro-war Dem in the general, for morale reasons, and many even for religious ones. Even in it gives Bush a second term, a strong message must be sent: people who are against murdering American soldiers and citizens of a 3rd world nation in the name of a religious crusade are NOT extremists who must never be allowed to head the top of the ticket of the Democratic Party.
