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"Waiter! I'll have what he's drinking!"

That was one of the greatest lines from one of the greatest scenes in movie history.

The prior reply set the stage for introducing a relevant quote. "I suppose if Barack Obama could be elected then anything is possible.."

The following quote is attributed to Churchill whose election was the prototype illustration used for describing a paradigm change: "America will always do the right thing, but only after exhausting all other options."

The real point that most people miss or fail to see is that the United States is at the end of an epoch. Since 1912, the US has been becoming more socialistic and more democratic. There are a couple of quotes from the Founders that touch on the current state of affairs in America:

Benjamin Franklin: "A republic if you can keep it....When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
John Adams, Second President: "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
Thomas Jefferson, Third President: "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them...If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them [around the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Unbelieveable changes are coming to the United States, probably sooner rather than later. These changes will be both economic and political. If Mises is right, we may follow someone who understands what is correct, Ron Paul, or some other alternative.

History has not been kind to nations in our present status. We can only hope that Churchill proves to be correct, "America will always do the right thing...", because all the other options have already been exhausted.

I would be more optimistic if there were more citizens of the USA that were capable of reasoning. There aren’t enough of them.

Heinlein was of the opinion that we must expand the species beyond earth. His reasoning was that the people that had the nerve to pack it up and move to another continent had a great impact on cleansing the gene pool for the new country. Few of the infirm, timid and weak ever made the trip. The smartest and most capable emigrated.

If not space, at least colonize the oceans.

You say all that as though you think Paul is the answer- he is not. Paul is no champion of the Constitution or Conservatism- no matter how many times his followers repeat that lie over and over. He is just another old career politician.

Paul is no Conservative- he is a moderate libertarian.
Paul is no non-interventionist- he has no problem as a representative of the US government going to Iran’s state media and denouncing both the US and countries of whom we have binding defense treaties with.
Paul is no economic champion- as chairman of the house monetary policy (ie the catbird seat) he has done nothing about any of the economic issues he claims to lead. At that, he sabotaged his own end the fed movement. He also believes in and uses the earmark process more than most- the most unConstitutional way of spending there is. Add to that, the ‘never voting for a tax increase’ is also bull. Just this past December he voted for Pelosi’s tax hike bill.

I can keep going and going but here, very few are fooled. He is to the Constitution in the same way Fred Phelps is to the Bible and his followers seem to act the same as Phelps’ followers.

History has not been kind to nations in our present status. We can only hope that Churchill proves to be correct, "America will always do the right thing...", because all the other options have already been exhausted.

Let's hope so -- but then again Churchill was talking about a previous generation of Americans with much more common sense than this one has.

I work with a lot of much younger people in their 20's and early 30's. When you talk to them about politics, they aren't the stupid couch potato slackers most of my generation tends to think that they are. They are smart and well aware that their future is what is at stake in this election.

About six months ago, one of them sent me this youtube video . If you understand how they see the world and the country, as shown in the first couple minutes of the video, the last half of it is easy to understand. And if you take a step back, these kids aren't all that different from most of the attitudes here on FR. They are just much more passionate about it.