It's official: I'm voting for Nader

If you think I'd actually endorse a national Democratic ticket after the DLC has gotten through with things, you haven't been reading this blog for very long.

And if you think I'd vote for Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney - well, you'd be right. Except I'm not allowed to, because she didn't make the ballot in Kentucky. Apparently, McKinney didn't get enough signatures in time - though Kentucky did extend the time limit for Bush at least once earlier in the decade.

If a wastoid party like the Constitution Party can appear on the ballot while the Greens can't, then I'm a bit skeptical that the laws are being evenly applied anyway. Also, write-ins don't count in Kentucky unless the candidate goes through serious red tape, so that's not an option this time.

So that whittles the choices down to Ralph Nader, who's mounting an independent bid. Do I want to vote for Obama? I wish I could, but after Obama's FISA cave-in and his switch to supporting the troop surge, I can't in good conscience do it.

A lot of folks don't understand just how far to the right the DLC has dragged the Democrats. Like the even more dreaded Republicans, the Democrats lately have taken positions that aren't just conservative but are well to the right of the mainstream.

I sincerely think there won't be significant improvement until someone like Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney wins. That's how far gone things are. As much of a longshot such a victory is, the country can't keep going the way it's been going.

At an appearance in New Mexico, Nader said, "It's quite clear this country needs a third political force made up of people all over the country who are committed to the proposition that corporations and their governments must become our servants and not our masters as they are at the present time."

A third political force? Right now, the country doesn't even have a second political force, as long as the DLC owns the Democratic side.

(Source: http://polwatchers.typepad.com/pol_watchers/2008/09/presidential-candidates-on-ky-ballot-set.html;
http://www.alibi.com/index.php?story=24448&scn=news)