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All is not rosy on the political left. Barely four months into the Obama Administration and America's grassroots is thoroughly fired up. Democrat leaders, while largely pretending to ignore the effervescing public sentiments or denying their significance on the nightly news, clearly are becoming nervously aware of the situation. Once again, a major effort is underway to change or camouflage the reality of the liberal agenda, since in its real form it will only outrage and alienate a majority of the population.

It is sad that among the Republican political ranks, so little real opposition has been evident. Grassroots conservatives are waiting to rally around any true resistance to the liberal onslaught that is being relentlessly advanced inside the Beltway. Last fall's eruption of enthusiasm for Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was no mere anomaly, and it remains vibrant to this day, despite media efforts to politically marginalize the conservatism she represents.

On the nightly news, the philosophies of Colin Powell and Arlen Specter are heralded as the salvation of the GOP, despite the fact that both have displayed consistent intentions of undermining and betraying traditional Republican values. Of course the network anchors enthusiastically concur.

Those who want to be forever freed from the annoyance of an effective opposition party will surely resort to such drivel. Sadly however, even some blindly pragmatic "conservatives" are accepting the premise that the party needs to forswear its former principles of limited government and personal responsibility (the inevitable byproduct of true morality), and further embrace the liberalism that thoroughly alienated it to the voters in 2006 and again in 2008.

Nevertheless, a few courageous individuals have decided to take up the tattered banner of conservatism, and as a result a true rallying is taking place, albeit far beneath the myopic radar screens of the "mainstream media." South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Texas Governor Rick Perry, to name a few, are linking up with those on "Mainstreet," demanding accountability from Washington, and affirming the necessity of a drastic overhaul of the bloated monstrosity that is the federal government, restoring some semblance of its constitutional scope.

Meanwhile, despite overwhelming media efforts to create a universal mindset that assumes the most despicable aspects of the counterculture, traditional values remain intact and in fact are gaining ground among the general public, as a direct result of the inherent ugliness of post-modern alternatives. The targeting and attempted character assassination of "Miss USA" contestant Carrie Prejean revealed the truly sinister tactics of the same-sex "marriage" advocacy. And a May 15 Gallup Poll shows that pro-life Americans now clearly outnumber those who support human abortion. The same sentiments prevail when the topic in question is personal freedom, and its scheduled eradication by the socialist "nanny state."

As a result, Democrats with an eye towards the 2010 mid-term elections are realizing that they must undertake a significant image makeover. When liberalism is couched in vague and non-quantifying terms such as "hope and change," it may resonate with voters, particularly if the alternative possesses all of the charisma of John McCain.

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