They should have kept a few P-51s in storage after WW-II. Put a turboprop in one of those babies and you'd really have a heck of a ground support vehicle there. A P-47 "Jug" would kick some serious camel too, IMHO. Didn't they used to pack TONS of ordnance along with their 6 (or was it 8?) .50 cals?
Tuck a couple of Vulcans under the wings for a real deadly upgrade.

Why can't they build in an option of quick interchange remote control (drone) and human pilot capabilities?
Make like a robot pilot with electric servo or hydraulic connections to controls and onboard cameras slung under the fuselage. A live pilot could use a monitor to scan normally blind spots beneath the wing.
There might be advantages to either mode in certain situations.

If top speed were under 300MPH or so I would imagine that an ejection system could be dispensed with to save weight. If things went to heck, the pilot could just "bail out" like they used to do in WW-II.
Of course you don't want pilots bailing out over hostile territory where Muslims tangos are involved, do you?
"Capture" by Jihaddist is not really an option, we are told. Certainly one of the up sides of the UAV.

In a desert environment a STOL aircraft could land among ground forces for re armament, refuel, repair, or team conference. Pilot or remote controlled, it could Medivac out a wounded Soldier and perhaps a Medic to attend him before choppers could be called in.

Potential drawback; would probably be operating at relatively low altitude and noise from prop engine could give away presence if not location of your patrol, alerting enemy of your activity in the area.

the commucrats have done a pretty good job inserting their shills into about every state's AG office, so that they can steal elections and do whatever they bloody well please with total impunity.

Up here in Maine video evidence was presented of a 12 pass. van from a state university going around one election day to about 36 polling places where all the useful idiots got out and voted at each one. Our corrupt commie AG of course could not be bothered.

Laws only apply to us "little people", don't you know?

I find it amazing that with such overt corruption of law, communities have not filled the void with "Vigilance Committees" and just started summarily stringing the bad guys up.

ACORN is in obvious violation of RICO, and I could quote you chapter and verse... but hold not thy breath for anyone to investigate them on it.

Note that it took a couple of brave college kids to give us a glimpse under ACORN's rock to begin with - those responsible and paid for doing that sort of thing of course had other more important things to do - like persecuting Christians and Border Patrol Agents, perhaps.

Do you have any doubt that ACORN will be out in force to steal the 2010 elections - with total impunity... again?

What is a patriotic Citizen (or group of Citizens) to do if they catch a domestic enemy trying to steal our Freedom, by the way? Call 911? Ask them politely to stop?

...just curious.