"...Keep your powder dry..."
It is senseless to hint darkly of violence or illegal revolt, when nothing like that is going to happen -- certainly not at this point.
Indeed, as of today, the most likely future scenario is something along the lines of repeating the mid-term elections of 1994 under Bill Clintoon. Then voters rose up, asking Republicans to restore fiscal sanity, bury Hillary-care, and begin investigating the Clintoons' misbehavior.
And as of today, the numbers for November 2010 look even better than they did a the same time in 1993. So there is plenty of reason for optimism.
We will see no violence, no revolt or secession by Conservatives. So forget about "keeping powder dry" for that reason. What you really need to do is purchase long lengths of rope -- with which lasso your neighbors and drag them to the polls next November. ;-)
Merry Christmas!
If that’s what you believe then you aren’t paying attention.