Your posts always scare me, because I come across them 5 years later and you always turn out to be prescient.
Why do you think war is closer.........
Because the political system that fills the offices at Washington has been captured by forces irredeemably hostile to its purpose and its design.
The Palin phenomenon was a test of whether or not the system retained enough suppleness to be changed by an outsider.
It doesn't. The savage nature of the attack on Palin used techniques never before seen in this country, culminating in Letterman's two minute hate routine.
OK, if they won't even tolerate opposition to the extent of a VP nominee on a ticket designed to lose because they are THAT afraid of the People, then what follows is practically inevitable - especially in a land where so many have died, so much blood has been spilled, to secure the Blessings of Liberty for Ourselves and our Posterity.
I don't think we are going down without a fight.
"Those who make peaceful change impossible [fill in the blank]".