We have a two party system, with both parties being largely in agreement. This is like a choice of ice cream flavors, Brand A chocolate and Brand B chocolate. In fact, not two parties, just two branches of the same one.

So Obama is GW on Steroids. The question is if Romney is really for smaller, less intrusive government, or just Obama lite.

Obama IS noteworthy, primarily for being G. W. Bush on steroids. - GW was for bailouts, Obama is for bigger bailouts. - GW was for bigger government funded healthcare, Obama is for even bigger government funded healthcare. - GW was for activist military interventions, Obama is for activist military interventions is different places. It seems like the Tea Party, like the Ron Paulites Libertarians want to change the Republican party from within. I hope it works, but in SC they just kicked all the non-approved primary candidates off the ballot. Can't vote for them if they aren't there right? The elites in charge are not going to go away easily.

The difficultly is that both major parties, Republican and Democrat, are Fascist. Both parties (I'm talking about the people really in control) are in favor of larger, more powerful government. They primarily differ in who the want the government to favor and what behaviors they want to direct. We have elected Republican Congress' and Republican Presidents. Did government get smaller? Less Powerful? G. W. Bush pursued Fascist/Socialist policies even as he called himself a "compassionate conservative". Expansion of Medicare? Patriot Act? Expansion of Drug War? Tell me what part of those made government smaller, or less powerful.