Q: What will you realistically do if John McCain wins the Oval Office in November?

[rdenney]

I know that I am new here on DU and all, but please remember I asked for
a _realistic_ plan that you can afford or be able to do, not some whim that
you will forget about if/when the worst happens and the Democrat nominee loses.

(And I pray that it won't happen, believe you me!)

[Mz Pip]

1. Not much I can do

I'll keep supporting Democrats at the local level and hope McCain doesn't start any more wars.

[babylonsister]

2. He won't win-period-and welcome to DU. nt

[rdenney]

32. I hope you are correct and thanks for the welcome. nt

[cali]

3. Nothing.

I'll stay right here in the Northeast Kindom- even though it's snowing out right now at the end of April. Oh, well. Can't have everything.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. That would be 'Democratic nominee'

and I sincerely don't expect that McCain will win; he's old, he's out of touch ('my friends, I'd be the first to admit that I don't know much about economics'), he has a temper problem, he's disliked and distrusted by the GOP base, and he's running on a 'stay the course' platform that would basically be Bush's third term (as if the first two weren't disastrous enough). Why you assume he has a realistic chance of winning, in a year that's seen record-breaking primary turnnout for the Democratic Party and record numbers of new Democratic voter registrations, is perplexing.

[Loge23]

20. Realistic indeed

Mainstream America has all but had it with the shenanigans of the Democratic party primary race.
I think it's more than realistic that McCain has a chance, when it clearly should be a Dem runaway.
The problem as I see it has been debated to death on these pages: whether you want to point to Pelosi's aversion to tables, the horrendous and destructive mud-slinging between Clinton and Obama, or the failure of the Dems to market a platform that can capture the imaginations and hopes of this country. I'm not saying there isn't one, I am saying that no one can tell you what it is (outside of these forums).
The best chance the Dems have as of today is to hope McCain loses, rather than us to win it.

[LakeSamish706]

5. If by some freak event he were to win (Not likely) you can kiss this country...

goodbye cause we could not tolerate another 4 to 8 years of a George Bush White House.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear rdenney...

First...Welcome to DU! You've landed in a very crazy, addictive place!

When it gets too hot in here, come on over to the Lounge...

We tend to be sweeter!

:hi:


Now, as to your question...

I have no freakin' idea, really...

Hunker down, and try to hang on...

Keep an eye on what "our" government is doing...

I got nothing, really...

:shrug:

[azmouse]

7. Blame HRC and her cult members for destroying the Dem party.

[Nederland]

29. Ding Ding Ding

We have a winner.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

37. Likely.

[slick8790]

8. Nothing, really.

I'll be angry and sad and frustrated, but to be perfectly honest my life won't change too much.

I'm fortunate enough to be confident I can continue to live relatively comfortable no matter who wins. It's the people that don't have that luxury that I'm concerned about.

[Texas Hill Country]

9. go bankrupt.

[olkaz]

10. I'll be getting ready for graduation and deciding which law school to go to.

Honestly, I'll probably give up politics for a while if that happens.

[redqueen]

11. Same thing I do every day...

try to take over the world!

;)


Really I'll just keep on doing what I'm doing... and step up my efforts trying to get out... move to some country where people aren't such lemmings for M$M spew. :hi:

[rpannier]

14. Narf!

I think so Brain.
But where are we going to find red suspenders that would fit around a zebra's shoulders?

[redqueen]

17. ...

:hi:

[graycem]

12. Stop watching

the so-called News for the next 4 years. It would be too depressing.

[rpannier]

13. Continue working and living in Korea

Wife and I have given thoughts to moving to the US (Her - first time, me- back to US) with the girls. If mcbush wins we'll be staying in Korea (which has a new president that seems to be challenging sarkozy, berlusconi and harper for the role of scrubs bff). At least here we have national health care, the streets are safe and the schools are pretty good and we get by pretty damned well on one income.

[Tyler Durden]

15. I'll keep going to work, and paying my bills.

But I'll say the same thing I'm saying today:

Here's to BOTH Democratic Campaigns...SUCKIN' MY DICK.

[peoli]

16. Click me heels three time and say, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home..."

[frickaline]

18. cry.

[joeybee12]

19. Wait for him to fall flat on his face...it'll happen soon...amid all this McLame

love from the press, the guy really hasn't been tested. He will not be able to govern effectively. I expect big Dem gains in 2010 and then see a Dem in 2012.

[Oregone]

21. Chuckle from across the border at this black comedy

[BlueIdaho]

22. Move to Canada.

[Oregone]

24. Apply now. It can take years.

Our process was delayed, but we applied before Kerry lost to Bush.

[BlueIdaho]

30. We have family there. nt.

[IDemo]

34. That would have been my plan, too

But I appear to be a couple of points shy on the exam, and will lose points now that I'm past 50. :-(

¿Belize?

[nuncvendetta]

23. If it's Hillary v. McCain, I'm not sure I'd feel any worse than if Hillary was elected

Yes, I'm a liberal, but when Hillary supported the war and supports a stupid gas-tax rebate just like McCain and supports a stupid foreclosure freeze and supports a stupid freeze on filling up the strategic petroleum reserve - well, I can't really say her policies are any better. That makes me damn angry, because liberals have much better policy positions than what Hillary embodies. So yeah, with Hillary and McCain in so much agreement over policy, I'll vote for the person with better character, and that's McCain. I'll cry all the way home from the polling booth that Hillary forced me to do this, but he's the lesser of two evils.

Folks, it can't be enough that she happens to call herself a Democrat. That shouldn't give her a free pass to our support.

[hokies4ever]

48. Agreed

Both Hillary and McCain think that we're already at war with Iran. Sorry, but I don't think that we have to go to war with Iran. If it's Hillary vs. McCain I'll be writing in Ron Paul.

[niyad]

25. keep wearing the black mourning band I have had since ray-gun was

elected.

[Perry Logan]

26. Watch him flounder and sink, along with his party. As a satirist, I'll be ecstatic.

[grannylib]

27. I'll be out in the street banging pots and pans, per Ms. Molly's request,

or I'll be camped out in the office of my congressional representative, on hunger strike until the votes are counted accurately.
No more rePiglicans. Ever. We can't afford four more DAYS of these scum, let alone four more years.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

28. My survival plan

1. Install solar panels and get off the grid completely.

2. Grow a majority of the food I eat. Preserve by canning/drying.

3. Continue to build my local network of neighbors so we can help out each other.

4. Continue collecting items of value that can be swapped/traded for goods and services when the dollar is no longer worth anything.

5. Continue to learn about herbs/plants/natural remedies that can be used to treat minor health emergencies.

[Oleladylib]

31. Take a nap ..but, probably either way I'll take a nap.

[tabasco]

33. Start digging more rocks out of my yard.

My garden will need to be much bigger during the Second Depression.

[crimsonblue]

35. I'm close to graduating from college, and after grad school..

I will probably work until I have enough money to move away to a secluded locale. I don't think there's a lot of (governmental) terrorism in some of those islands off of Australia. I am by no means tied to this country. I will live in freedom, wherever that may be.

[FlyingSquirrel]

36. O, CANADA!

[AllentownJake]

38. I'm already

Stockpiling canned food as an insurance policy.

[Jamastiene]

39. I'll go on living my life, like I always do.

Better luck next time.

[Indenturedebtor]

40. My wife and I will walk out on our debts and leave the country

I can immigrate to either Germany or Israel any day now. The Wife and I nearly left when shrub got elected a second time. We're both not quite white and I don't want to stick around for what will happen with another 8 years of fascist slide.

[ej510]

41. Move on with my life.

[AnnieBW]

42. We're going to Australia the weekend after the election

If McSame wins, we're going to start looking for property.

[aquarius dawning]

46. That just seems a bit overly dramatic.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd love to live in Australia for a while either way but to leave the country specifically over this seems a bit...well...how should we say this...fucking crazy.

[AnnieBW]

47. Well, we're going on vacation there

We're taking a two-week vacation in Australia. We've been halfway joking that we'd look into moving there is McSame wins.

[aquarius dawning]

43. I am very optimistic regardless of who wins this thing.

[NeedleCast]

44. Go on Fighting

What else is there?

[HamdenRice]

45. The IMF and China are no doubt planning "structural adjustment" for the USA

If John "100 years of war" McCain becomes president, they will basically have to impose a financial structural adjustment, because unless we end the war, the dollar will soon be worthless, which would plunge not just us, but all those other countries holding dollars and dollar denominated assets, into chaos.

They will not have that.

If McCain becomes president, look forward to an "adjustment" that will make Russia 1990-1998 look like a mild recession.

I'm sure that most of us love our country and want to stay here, but if McCain becomes president and you can get out, that would be highly advisable. Don't sacrifice your life for the mistakes of Bush and McCain.

I realize it takes a long time to get into Canada, but there are other alternatives. I like South Africa, for example, and they are desperate for educated emigres.

[anigbrowl]

49. Feel bad for a week, then go back to supporting good policy and opposing bad. .nt