What's your #1 hot button issue this election?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

Too many to list them all so I put in an "Other"

[ixion]

1. BushCo

for all their many glorious failures as an unelected maladministration and as a human beings.

[Q3JR4]

2. All of the above. n/t

[Pegleg Thd]

6. If shrub is for it

we don't want it!!:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[ibegurpard]

3. Disregard for our system of government and checks and balances.

eom

[Rowdyboy]

4. Three most important in order:

1. Supreme Court
2. Supreme Court
3. Supreme Court

I'm also VERY concerned about potential Supreme Court appointments. Did I mention judicial appointments?

[bigwillq]

5. A combination of:

Economy
Education
Environment

[democratreformed]

7. Freedom from fear (or at least the attempt to perpetuate that atmosphere),

preservation of our freedoms and rights, restoring our respect and reputation as a world leader... and many others

[grace0418]

8. All of the above

Bush has dug his evil little claws into every aspect of our government. Even if he hadn't gone into Iraq I still would be fighting for his removal.

[apnu]

9. Other: All of the above

We live in a very complex and fast paced world, most of those issues relate to one another in one form or another. And they, separately, are all signs to me that this country is going in the exact wrong direction under the GOP. But then I expected that it would, so I'm not shocked just pissed off.

[LSK]

10. its still the economy stupid!!

[bobbieinok]

11. all listed are impt to me....but the biggest is bushco approval of torture

I was thinking about all this the other night and realized that this issue really hits me the worst.

With W, the US has become a 'torture nation.' Those images may not be burned into the minds of most US citizens; they definitely help 'paint the picture' of the US for the rest of the world.

Approval of torture, pre-emptive war, secret trials and verdicts, etc. Everything that I learned as a kid from movies and books are the marks of 'the enemy,' of 'an evil country.'

I, and maybe most of us here, can block this out most of the time. But it has seriously damaged my view of my country and of myself as a citizen of this country.

There are many things I will never forgive this administration and its enablers in congress, the media, the churches, etc; this leads them all.

[No Mandate Here.]

12. Constitutional Issues

* will do so much damage to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that the country may never return to anything of the sort we have known all our lives. I am 52, and have been politically conscious since 1968- before I was able to do anything about it except talk.

If * steals another four years, the SCOTUS will be hard right for at least a generation, the draft will be back, the US government will be irretrievable from the deLay sort of ReThugs because of gerrymandering, and ...

That's just the beginning. He has already recast a good bit of the supposedly apolitical parts of the Federal government - such as trying to appoint his own archivist who specializes in making things disappear. I am sure that * has put his slimy hands in quite a few other parts of the permanent government that haven't even approached being on the radar screen.

Our children and grandchildren will be paying *'s rich friends' debts for many years, and * is laughing about it.

We must win this one big. Taking back the Senate would be a nice premium, too.

[LiberalEsto]

13. Other: fear of fascism

I am afraid B*shco will suspend the Constitution and Bill of Rights, ignore Congress, and declare martial law.

[doni_georgia]

14. All of the above! This administration is such a clusterfuck that I can't

separate issues.

[baltodemvet]

15. Torture!

Violates international law
Inconsistent with "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind."
Violates American standards of decency
Will endanger captive Americans for years to come.
Who's next?

Whether or not (not) he wants to own up to it, Bush is responsible and must be repudiated!

[Selwynn]

16. Civil Rights, and the Bush/Ashcroft raping of them.

[CrispyQ]

17. The diminishing of the separation of church & state.

[Sympleesmshn]

18. Foreign policy

is the big thing for me. Bush and many Republicans i know don't care about the rest of the world and that isn't the right mindset.

[donheld]

19. how about all of the above

amongst many others.

[desertalien]

20. Social Security. n/t