According to a new Rasmussen poll, 75% of Americans support Ron Paul's audit of the criminal central bank. Perhaps not by coincidence, in a Kentucky newspaper poll (scroll down), 77% percent think Ron's son Rand, the most anti-Fed Senate candidate since his Dad in 1984, should be the Republican candidate to replace retiring Jim Bunning, himself no slouch on the Fed. (Thanks to Conor Sen and Travis)

Tragically for Texas and America, thanks to the most virulent aspects of the conservative Republican establishment, economist Phil Gramm beat Ron in 1984, and then went on to sell out his supposed principles for power and pelf for himself and a family member, in true Beltway fashion. He then became a powerful lobbyist (duh), who even played a small roll in helping pump up the Fed's bank and real-estate bubble. We last heard of him when, as McCain's campaign co-chairman and chief economic advisor, he said that the Depression was all in our neurotic heads, and that economically, everything was hunky-dory.