The very modest proposals for Social Security reform were promising, but didn't get very far.  The reforms didn't seem that radical at the time and certainly not in retrospect. 

You've got a point.  You mean that the framers might have known what they were talking about?  Thank goodness geniuses like Woodrow Wilson were able to fix everything.

Easy answer:  Return to the Articles of Confederation.

Barring that, 1.  Define "Interstate Commerce" to stuff that actually crosses state lines.

2.  Include the the 9th and 10th Amendments as something other than window dressing.

3.  Correct the whole accidental...birthright citizenship business in the 14th Amendment.

4.  Repeal the 16th Amendment.

5.  Repeal the 17th Amendment.

6.  Add an amendment something along the lines of "the right to be left alone."

7.  Spell out that the Federal Courts are to decide cases under their jurisdiction and have no role whatsoever in interpreting the Constitution itself.

1. Surprise, surprise. "Free" stuff from the government and taxing the rich are more popular than austerity.

2. I wonder if the Euro will change one way or the other versus the Pound this week.

3. One more country for Germany to bail out (Alsace as collateral?).

How much more forward we can afford?

Because the last four years have been such a raging success.

You can send them to college, but you can't make them think.

Forgot the "Great leap" part.

The lemmings love it, though.

The great leap backward.

...and stealing shamelessly from Mark Steyn and Bernard Lewis - "America is harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend."  

What a Foxtrot Charlie (i.e. Feckless C**p-Weasel).  Apparently, like serving in Congress, there is no I.Q. test to be employed by CNN. 

They're saying "leave us alone."

If we're the party of individuals, then it's time to end/repeal all race-based legislation, including race-based information gathering by the federal government.

So it's OK to use the s word that cannot be uttered out loud about Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin, but not about a liberal activist "college student?"

The speed with which LegalZoom et al. pulled their ads seems like this whole incident was a set up from the beginning. 

One thing that Delingpole is correct about is that the Republicans are not serious about winning this election.  It will be about as real as professional wrestling or a reality show.  Romney is this year's version of the Washington Generals (A good loser like Bush Sr., Dole, and McCain).

Sorry, but  I couldn't resist. 

The actual quote is something along the lines of: 

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"

You and Charles de Gaulle.

Yawn.

1.  The 5% wouldn't vote for the Republican anyway.

2.  The 5% are extremely wealthy by world standards.  If anyone has visited truly poor parts of the world and seen how the 5% live (no safety net whatsoever) they would not lose too much sleep over the 5% of Americans from whom Mitt can never hope to gain the votes.