If the Democrat beats Bush in 2004, how will you feel?

[kentuck]

Will you feel like celebrating throwing out the wanna be dictator? Will there be a sense of relief that our country has been saved from this despot and his destructive policies? Or will there be a realistic calm knowing what needs to be cleaned up? Will it be an impossible job? What will you be feeling when the Democrat is sworn in on that cold but sunny day in January of 2005?

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[poskonig]

1. I would feel more anxious.

Bush would be leaving us with a lot of fuck-ups to clean up, and we would be responsible for results after four years, even with an uncooperative GOP congress. The routine (and fun!) of blaming everything that's wrong on Bush would be over for a while.

edit: On second thought, I'd be like, hell yeah!

[wuushew]

2. I will be able to face each day without chronic stress

It will be nice to wakeup to the morning paper without an insanley conservative headline indicating mounting nuclear tensions in (blank) region of the world.

[StClone]

3. Roll up your sleeves

The money and power freaks always leave a mess environmentally, socially, economically, whatever. We have a big job to restore faith and stability in our world.

[sweetheart]

4. How does an iraqi

Who has lost his family and loved ones to american bullets feel knowing that a corrupt democracy will now replace a corrupt autocracy.... empty.

Likely, i'll be emotionally drained and exhausted... and i will clean up my life and move on from the horror of the evil king.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Our work will only have just begun.

Republicans do not compromise and we must be prepared for their next Richard Mellon Scaife, their next Ted Olson and their next Clinton Witch Hunt.

[xray s]

6. If we do not win the House and Senate...

..frustrated for another two years.

[proud patriot]

7. that night will be a night of Celebration

Yes we the Democratic Party can clean this mess up
We've been cleaning up after repukes for a century .

They mess it up we clean it up .

[arewethereyet]

8. as of now I'd just be relieved

there is so very far to go and its uphill as far as I can see.

[AWD]

9. You can tell me personally.....

...because by then, I'll have spent two weeks as a freshman member of the House.

And I'm renting out a hotel suite and DU is invited to party for the Inauguration!

[Walt Starr]

10. Brief respite

That's what a Democratic victory in 2004 will be at best. The fight will have only begun.

Losing in 2004 will mean it is over. I will prepare myself for the coming onslaught, and it will be brutal. Democracy will be 100% dead and a new fascist power will bring a shadow across the face of the planet.