[Understood. Of course you are right about not elevating politics, not ever.]

My point was the narrow one that Ron Paul’s age need not be a disqualification. What is needed in a President is wisdom, not the energy to try to micromanage the country.

And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, … Deuteronomy 34:6

Now that is an honor, personal burial by the Lord Himself (Sorry, if OT, but I could not resist).

[I wish this was our lot. This was mostly a moral code intended for a moral people—lots of imperative to do good, etc; hardly worthy of the broad brush you paint of rigid regulation. That is, unless I misunderstood you.]

We have three hundred million people, a relationship to Congress and ten thousand laws.

[Come again?!! I wish! The US has hundreds of thousands of laws. “We have immigration and deportation laws, as well as laws against treason, hate crimes, murder, and conspiracy to commit murder. Not counting state and local government laws, authors Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton tallied 56,009 pages of laws in the U.S. Code, 134,488 pages of regulatory laws in the Code of Federal Regulation and more than 68,107 pages of laws in the Federal Register. ‘The Federal Law is further augmented by more than 2,756 volumes of judicial precedent,’ they write in The Tyranny of Good Intentions. And that was back in 2000! C’mon guys!]

Sorry but we don’t need another Moses striking rocks and that’s what it would take to get this congress’s attention. I don’t mean to sound argumentative, just don’t know any other way to say it than being plain spoken. However, I do have an alternative (Being an ex-New Mexican, if it’s possible to disenfranchise from NM) really like Myron’s comment on Johnson, though not until twenty sixteen when only draconian measures will work to rebuild this country. The country will be still salvageable in 2012 and only a band aid would be applied by the powers that be. By 2016, only surgery will work and if Rand Paul, Peter Schiff and other libertarians are available, we got a shot.

Moses was 80 when he started the Exodus.

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh. Exodus 7:7

I’ll agree that the difference between the two parties is a bucket of warm…whatever. If we want the country back, I expect we’re going to have to do it ourselves.

Some of the newer Paulistas (Rand Paul in KY or Peter Schiff in CT…) ,if they win, may be credible candidates when the economy tanks. Otherwise, the Republicans may as well nominate Hamid Karzai for President of the USA in my humble opinion.

In fact, if we are going to WRECK the country by statism (the specific labels of socialism, fascism, communism, Nazism, Obammunism don’t have much meaning these days…), I would prefer that the Statist-In-Chief honestly speak Statist-Dialect so that the ideas get completely repudiated when they fail – rather than some Dubya/Dole/McCain/Hoover bozo who talks “freedom” and “capitalism”, delivers statism-debt-incompetency, with capitalism being scapegoated for having “failed”.

Anyway, what really animates these “VALUES” voters are condoms in schools, gay marriages, etc. As a father, I’d concede that their concerns are far from frivolous, but they should follow the example of our Great Leader Messiah Obama and send their children to PRIVATE SCHOOLS. We do not need “socialism for the soul” anymore than “socialism for the body”.

http://economics.gmu.edu/wew/articles/09/Washington%27sLies.htm

http://www.tsrn.us/blog/2009/09/21/ron-paul-gets-hearing-on-fed-audit-900-am-friday-925/

Poppy was a set up man for Clintoon, who handed off to Dubya, who threw the touchdown pass to Capt’n 0 ?

They were all working towards the same objective.