Do you feel this is the most important election of your lifetime? Why?

[kentuck]

I have seen several elections since Eisenhower. I have seen Nixon/Kennedy, Johnson/Goldwater, Nixon/McGovern, Ford/ Carter and all the rest and I have never felt so desperate for a change. Not just for change sake, as in some other elections, but change for the sake of our country. Because I have the sinking feeling that we cannot survive 4 more years of this type of "governance". We are losing so much as a nation. Partisanship has our country by the throat. My Party, right or wrong. No matter if my Party is the most radical bunch to ever hold the reins of government. Anything is better than the "other" Party. With these attitudes, how do we save this great nation?

[DenverDem]

1. We lose the election, the country is lost forever.

This is a must win, not only for America, but for the whole world.

[Fenris]

2. Certainly, being a child of the Reagan Revolution

This one is the most important of my lifetime.

In retrospect, however, 2000 seems to be the more important of the two.

But I didn't vote in that one, and if I had been old enough I would have voted for Gore.;)

[SoFlaJet]

3. Are you kidding me?

who but the right wing idealouges are happy with the way things are going?Every day brings a new disaster with these people running every branch of govt.Look at the House yesterday and today for a small example.They keep a 15 minute vote open 38 minutes just soo they can win.It is disgusting I am hating life under republican rule it's a little bit better than slavery-just w/o the whippings and chains

[luaneryder]

4. Yes, Kentuck, I do.

I've seen and paid attanetion since the laste 60's and never have I felt it so imperative for regime change. The successful chipping away of our civil rights is what has gotten to me the most, amidst the blatant lying, high crimes, etc., etc. This country is in one hell of a mess right now.

[Rowdyboy]

5. At minimum, 3 supreme court seats will be opening in the next 4 years

Maybe more. That, alone, makes this one of the major elections of the last 50 years. We stand to lose all our constitutional rights if Bush is able to pack the supreme court.

With Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy and Souter set to be there for YEARS, imagine adding Pickering, Pryor, Estrada and another kook to those four...

[wurzel]

6. Yes. An "elected" Bush legitimizes the "unelected" Bush.

And another four years of a "legitimate" Bush, this country will be unrecognizable.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

7. Yes, absolutely....

I view the current situation as if there is a crazy drunk at the wheel who is driving us 90 mph towards a cliff and we MUST take the keys away from him before it is too late.

I believe that, if all goes well this next election, we will STILL be repairing the damage done for the rest of my lifetime.

And if all does not go well, I believe the damage done in the next four years will be irreparable.

[Snoggera]

8. I was a politically minded kid during the Nixon years

and really only understood what was going on around me towards the end, but I remember thinking, along with I guess the rest of the country at the time, that the lies and deceptions were too much. Of course, we were in the Age of Aquarius at the time, so had high hopes for the future of humankind.

This is worse because not many seem to care about the deceptions, manipulations and outright lies anymore. They will still vote for *.

Maybe society has lost its bearing in some ways for whatever reasons.

I do know this for certain, however. We are no longer in the Age of Aquarius. (Now where's that old video copy of HAIR I used to have? I could sure enjoy that right about now!)

[ThomWV]

9. Here's Why

This is the most important election for President in my life. Truman was the first one I remember. Here are the reasons this one is the most important compared to the others.

Eisenhower did not threaten my liberty.

Stevenson did not threaten my liberty.

Nixon did not threaten my liberty.

Kennedy did not threaten my liberty.

Johnson did not threaten my liberty.

Goldwater did not threaten my liberty. Well, maybe.

McGovern did not threaten my liberty.

Ford did not threaten my liberty.

Carter did not threaten my liberty.

Reagan did not threaten my liberty, but the storm was beginning to brew.

H.W. Bush did not threaten my liberty, probably because he was stopped before a second term, by maybe not even then.

William Jefferson Clinton, the finest President of my lifetime, did not threaten my liberty.

And now we have Mr. Bush. He is a stupid man and his stupidity threatens my liberty. He must be removed from office if my liberty is to continue.

[vetwife]

14. Yes..America will be gone as we know it

For all the reasons listed above regarding liberty !

[lumpy]

19. Bless you. Thom

So well stated. I know so many people who have faithfully adhered to the Republican line for years. So many are now realizing that their party is in the hands of corrupt leaders who are a danger to the future of the US as well as the world. There is a tremendous sense of frustration that there is little that can be down to turn the tide other than voting out the Bush administration. Some of these people are depressed to see this country in a such sea of corruption and fear for future generations.

[Selwynn]

10. Yes. Because it is.

[Az]

11. Second most important

This is just damage control from our loss of the most important election.

[mwar]

12. Absolutely the most important

This country has never been so deeply ideologically divided since the civil war. Even if the election goes our way with Democratic victories in the White House and senate, there's going to be an incredible amount of damage to repair. I'm still very worried for my kids.

[lumpy]

Definately the most important in my 75 years

I've voted in all elections since I've been elegible to vote. By far, this is the most important. The Bush administration could well be the one that brings this country to it's knees. It wouldn't be the first time in the history of the world that a great country has fallen due to leadership filled with the worst kind of tyranical thugs using lies and lives to further a corrupt agenda.

[Solly Mack]

13. I thought 2000 was the most important

I saw it as America being on the cusp...we'd either elect Gore and gain a grace period by which to start correcting the damage of a system gone amok (an impeachment; which was nothing more than an abuse of power - which in and of itself was proof of a system gone terribly wrong) or America would snowball down the path of fascism with little chance of regaining another grace period within my lifetime. I watched America become unraveled under Clinton solely because of republicans who didn't give a damn about America or Americans. I witnessed democrats who bought the republican lie....and I thought the results of 2000 would show which way America would go from then on.

I still see 2000 as the point at which America failed herself and her citizens.

Bush must go. There is no denying that. But I do wonder if some things have become so commonplace within America that her people accept things now that they would not have accepted in 2000 or in 1992. The war on terror is a joke. But people are beginning to accept it as commonplace. The impeachment was a farce...but that's not even given the time of day...even though such an abuse of power must never be forgetten or forgiven. Selection 2000 was a travesty....yet people want to move ahead like it never happened...like it didn't cause lasting damage.

Unless Election 2004 rights the wrongs, then it will only serve to have ousted Bush...and ousting Bush isn't enough. It's a start...but it will never be enough. I'm willing to cast my vote for the start of a better America...but I am not willing to forgive or forget a damn thing.

[Kanary]

15. Nope, Johnson was

Without his administration, there would be no Civil Rights Act, and countless people would have died of povety in this country, who were saved by his Poverty policies.

No such thing is happening now, and we'll be back to more people dying (silently, of course) of poverty.

Kanary

[kerry-is-my-prez]

16. I know several 70-80 year olds who are saying that. SCARY!

Mostly because of the Patriot Act, the war in Iraq and media censorship.

[Oddman]

17. 2000 was the most important and we lost that and it ruined our country

This is now the most important election in the history of the United States. We have entered a new chapter in global domination and all the havoc and egos run amok in this administration have resulted in a failed presidency and the most dangerous time for the future of our world since 1960.

This is the most important election because it is the one that will help save our society.


A Pathetic Excuse for a pResident

[deacon]

18. Yes, because this group in now are control freaks

and they appoint religious wing nut judges and enjoy freedom of speech but for only one party--theirs.

They want us a one party system.

[tom_paine]

20. Yes. because if the Voice of the People cannot be heard NOW

I cannot see how it will ever be heard again.

Which covers so many sub-categories it would take 50 pages to list them all.

[young_at_heart]

21. Many are saying this will be our last election

if the cabal wins. My first election was Kennedy and I absolutely think this is the most important one of my lifetime!

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[Gothmog]

22. Supreme Court is at risk

If elected Bush will or should get three to four supreme court nominations and these picks could change the balance of the court to the far right.