[af_vet_rr]

The Federal Government can still be reduced, controlled and restored toward something closer to our Founders' original vision, if but only if we take advantage of opportunities such as the one which seems to be coming this year...

I assume you're talking about Congress and not Romney, because not much will change if Romney wins.

Come to think of it, not much will change with Congress if the GOP takes over. Remember, it was a Republican Congress who helped pave the way for things like the PATRIOT Act, Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Agency, No Child Left Behind, etc.

Our best hope is to start booting out the incumbents who only care about winning the next election and feeding from the trough. Winning control of Congress is no longer good enough, it has to be Conservatives, not these Boehner and McConnell types.

[BroJoeK]

af_vet_rr: "Come to think of it, not much will change with Congress if the GOP takes over.
Remember, it was a Republican Congress who..."

Wrong. Everything will change when the GOP takes over -- which is not to say you will necessarily be pleased with every change, but everything now being promised will be delivered in some form, and that adds up to a big change.

And yes, of course, the fundamental problem of Conservatives getting corrupted by Washington is on-going, never-ending.
But there is a solution, albeit a difficult one, which is to measure these folks on various Liberal vs Conservative scales, and when our guys/gals start getting too liberally fat & happy, challenge & replace them.

It's the only reasonable way.
Anything else falls into the category of "throwing out the baby with the bath-water".

Not so smart, imho.