We are about to experience change.  Real change.  The mainstream press and media have jumped on the Obama bandwagon and I believe he will be our next president unless a candidate with substance is chosen to challenge him.  Forget the fact that he has not defined any policy positions, domestic or foreign, he stands for change, and "yes we can!" 

My fear is that the change that will take place in an Obama administration will take us down the road of Western European Social Democracies.  A road that takes detours to higher taxes, less personal freedom, and a Nanny State that provides cradle to grave for the masses.  We will become a country  with limited ideas and incentive, a country that legislates feelings (You know, what to think and how you should think; can you say reparations, Gay Rights, and government indoctrination?), and never ending entitlement programs, but don't worry, be happy, because "yes we can!"

We can have higher taxes, new burdensome bureaucracies, a new expansion of federal entitlement progams, and less individual and economic freedom, "yes we can!"  Say goodbye to state rights and hello to Big Brother.  We will all bow at the alter of "yes we can!"  And what if you believe in less government, less taxes, and less federal intrusion into our lives.  You're $%*# out of luck.   Imagine Oprah as Obama's Secretary of Education and the re-education camps she would implement, reminiscent of those in that wonderful movie, Red Dawn.  That's where we're headed, only Oprah would more than likely take our children away and place them in schools, like the one she started in Africa,  where they will be taught they should never listen to their parents, dispensed a reading list from her book club, and literally experience both feast and famine as their weight yo yo's throughout their adolescent years.

There is no alternative to Obama in the Republican Party.  Think about it; what are they offering?  Huckabee's "I can be a liberal (But I believe in God!) too, John McCain's "I'm a maverick because I'll cave in to liberals on the Hill,"  Fred Thompson's "My poll numbers will increase as soon as the writers' strike is over,"  Mitt Romney's, "What can I do to get you into that car today?" spiel,  Ron Paul's, "Put your head in the sand foreign policy," and Rudy's, "I'll cut government spending unless I get a new girlfriend pledge." Can Newt be drafted at the convention, because the Republican field is a caricature of what the party has become;  increased spending, preemptive wars, and  new entitlement programs.  Where is the new Goldwater?  Where is the new Reagan? Newt, why did you forsake us?

We need to talk about change, we need to demand change, and since the Republican Party has been hijacked by "Rockefeller Country Club Republicans,"we need to find a new home.  We need to define what has made this country great.  The ideals all americans should hold near and dear to their hearts, limited government, personal responsibility and accountability, and a foreign policy that repudiates nation building and intervenes only when our national interest is at risk.  Run, run as fast as you can to the Libertarian Party and make a statement, "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more!"  I for one will continue to "Root for America!"  As the Great Communicator once said, "...Satus quo is Latin for the mess we're in...":