Bush vs. Kerry vs. Anyone

I am torn.

I don't think I can force myself to vote for Bush this year. I am not a Republican. I am not a Democrat. I am a Libertarian. However, often my political views are more aptly aligned with the Republicans and I feel that the Democrats in this country are rather misnamed. Democrats in this country are much closer to socialists than anyone wants to admit. Anyway, I don't think I can vote for Bush because of his extreme views that are tightly tied to his religious beliefs. The religious side is one big reason is why I can't call myself a Republican.

Bush has distanced himself from the entire Republican party except the Religious Right. As such the majority of the Republican party is left to decide whether to vote for a President who has royally messed things up internationally and internally or to vote for the other side.

Its not like the Democrats have it any better. They have Kerry, who was in Portland yesterday, who is a politician without a message. His only message is apparently "I am not Bush." This leaves the Dem's with a choice of voting for a guy who has no real goals or platforms or voting for the most hated man in the world. Somehow I think I know how that will turn out, but they won't be happy.

However, I am thinking that the Blogsphere can have a big impact on the election. The Blogsphere is the ultimate Grass Roots. I mean, we have all heard of Six degrees of seperation (and I'm not talking about the movie). If someone can find a good third party candidate, I think he could really catch on this year. Nobody is really excited about either of the candidates.

I checked out the Libertarian Party's home page, and it appears some former Hollywood Producer is trying to get the LP nomination. I gotta say, I am not excited about this candidate. He doesn't appear to be that serious of a candidate, to me at least. How about it blogsphere? Can't we find someone, anyone, to be a viable third party choice? At least if they get 5% then some party will get matching funds in the next year's election. So long as that party didn't screw up all that momentum like the Reform Party did. I mean the Buchanan debacle was bad enough, but now to support Nader rather than finding your own dude (or dude-ette)? That is weak. I didn't vote for your party back in the day so you could throw away your power.

So I call on Mr. Poon, Mr. Bashman, Mr. Homowner, Mr. Murphy, or Anybody.... come up with someone better. There has to be someone better than those two.