Comments on: What If You Want To Vote Them All Out?

CBS’ Meyer: The ’06 Elections Unlikely To Really Shake Things Up

[random_radar]

I have worked for one of the major political parties, and I can assure you that voting doesn't matter much. If you really want to change America, you need to participate in the party apparatus that determines who gets on the ballot. You can have good people in office if you get involved on more days than election day and support those good people.

Politics is a nasty business because money and power attract ruthless people. If you want to see America be a land of peace, freedom, justice, and opportunity, you are going to have to fight the selfish powermongers. The reason our nation is in decline is that not enough people value their liberty enough to protect it. So get a lot more involved or prepare for the coming totalitarian tyranny.

[ademeyer]

I'd love to see Kerry kick some Swift Boat Veterans' ***. After what they put him through, and the price the country is paying for their lies, I think they have it coming. PS Brace yourself for the '06 Republican attack ads, I hear they have spent millions on them.

[ger12342]

People need to start voting for any political party other than the Democrats or Repulblicans. That is the only way the direction of this country will ever change. Stop wasting your votes by voting for the DNC and RNC.

[pelepoe]

Surely we need a revelution in this country at this time if not to save it for our children. but wedont need to shoot bullets we need to shoot ballots. I am a veteran, I supported Lebenon I tried to get the hostages out of tehran. Lets get out of there and let them do there own homework. get out there and vote. pelepoe

[MizQue]

Joe Lieberman is not the "Independent" candidate for senator from Connecticut. The Independent Party has a senate candidate, John Mertens. Mr. Lieberman, made atrocious anti-American remarks after losing the primary, likening primary voters who voted for Ned Lamont to supporters of terrorism, and said "For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand". He then did the unforgivable thing of thwarting the will of the voters, refused to concede like a gentleman, and instead created his own party, "Connecticut for Lieberman" - which is essentially a party of one.

The people of Connecticut were sick of Joe Lieberman's support for the Iraq war, his involvement with selecting "heluva Job Brownie" to head FEMA, his meddling in the Terri Schivao affair, his bleating about decency, and his foray into the national spotlight with a Vice Presidential run without resigning his senate seat first. Had he been elected VP, the Republican governor of Connecticut would have been able to appoint a replacement senator, most likely a Republican. For these reasons, the Democratic voters of Connecticut wanted change, and they voted for this. Joe Lieberman's refusal to accept the will of the majority of voters in his party will forever tar his legacy. Why did he spend 6 million dollars plus on a primary if he did not intend to respect the results? He so richly deserves to lose in November, and the people of Connecticut deserve a change!

[barnowl14]

What unspeakable idiocy to equate good policy and effective propaganda. If this columnist thinks it's better to spend billions of dollars a week for a bloody post colonial dustup in Iraq instead of seriously addressing the difficult problem of stateless international terrorism, he's entitled to vote for whomever he pleases. Unless he recommends sitting on our hands, that would have to be the GOP,the "ideas" party, the party of ethics, fiscal probity and sterling innovations in Social Security , disaster relief, and comprehensible drug programs for seniors.He can imagine that five bucks and some change is a living wage, the "Healthy Forests"initiative is not double speak, and that a manichean foreign policy geared to pull the heartstrings of 30 percent of the electorate should determine the future for the rest of us. In the unlikely event there is no change in governance, as he suggests, good luck to the USA, which will be enjoying the same severe hangover they've suffered since 2004, on the order of "I can't believe we fell for this again." After two more years of horrific cronyism, amateurism and the unchecked reign of boobus americanus they might in two years be even more willing to take scalps than they are now. But I don't think we will have to wait that long.

Do you ever think we, the American people, are stuck eating political leftovers for the rest of time? Republican/Democrat where are the best minds of our generation going? I will tell you where they are not going; they are not going to run for political office. They may still fundamentally change this country like they have in the past, but they won't do it from inside the government and they are not going to save us from ourselves.
Ask yourself this question (and I don't care what party you are for.) when you walk into the booth and cast the ballot, is this the best person for the job? Or is this a leftover%u2026..

You see, in my opinion, our forefathers were the smartest minds of their generations. They were not perfect, they liked getting drunk and womanizing as much if not more than our politicians of today. The difference was that wasn't what they went down in the annals of history for. They went into history having formed a nation, and creating a system that has withstood the test of time since it was created. One, who came a bit later, even saved us from ourselves literally.
What will our politicians be known for out of this generation? Perhaps destroying all that hard work?
I can say I am of the disenfranchised generation of voters. The voters that can't see what politicians can do for them. I can understand why the best and brightest stay out of the game. I am just hoping that one day very soon the players of the game realize how badly we need better than their best.

[long_rider]

Americans have to do a little research on the people running for office. Ignore the handsome, well spoken person before the camera, and look at who is backing them, and why (this is where the pork-barrel is going to go, as well as political favors), look at their past political record- if people would have done this with the chimp he never would have been elected.

Americans have to care enough about who we elect, and hold them accountable after they get into office. We have to monitor their voting while in office %u2013 hold them accountable.

Face it, the American voter wants a canned package, do all the work for me and I will trust you, and I will vote for anyone you put before me.

The people we have put in office are liars, cheats, crooks, give up our constitutional rights to an idiot president, break their sworn oath, support heir backers, and what do the American people do, not one thing %u2013 this is sad. No wonder everyone wants to run for office, free trips, bribes, paid for political favors, and no one cares.

So why is it so important that we have republican this or democrat that they are still going to do the same things, and we let them get away with it.

America is going down hill fast, controlled media and complacency, and laziness is really eating at this country. We have a president who is just about a king of America, we have party politics supporting him, and no one even cares.

We deserve what we get.

[Syndicate]

As a moderate Democrat my party has left me no where to go but to the Republicans. I don't want to elect people who are going to look back on 9/11 and apollagize for our buildings being in the way.

[elcoyote711]

Ok, let me see if I have this right: So *** Meyer says that main problem with Democrats is that they are talking, debating and even bickering among themselves, while the monolithic Republicans are ruthlessly marching in lock-step to the GOP "pied pipers" of Rove, Frist and Baynor.
But wait a minute...last time I looked in a history book, the whole point of a "democracy", all the way from ancient Athens to Philly in 1776, was to debate, discuss and even bicker over our common issues and solutions.

I get very, very nervous and uneasy when politicians offer me "sound-bite" solutions on a platter [e.g. binLaden+911=Iraq], and then tell me I have to swallow their pablum whole or I risk being labelled a "defeat-o-crat" or a "white flag-waving" traitor or worse!

If the GOP is offering me pre-digested neo-con solutions to the problems that they created by not thinking before they acted [in Iraq, unaffordable tax-cuts, putting FEMA under DHS, etc] versus the messy, sticky process of solution finding in whcih the Dems are engaged. Then I for one will go with messy and sticky.

The real question in the 2006 election is does the average voter want a party that will ask them to think and contribute as a citizen...or do they want the party that tells them to sit-down, shut-up and prepare to be fleeced...as sheep.
Helpfull Hint here: Winter is coming...
Take care, EC