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Despite the temporary elation delivered by a Rush Limbaugh pep talk at CPAC, conservative morale is at an all-time low. Painfully aware of the hold that Obamania has over the media and therefore the nation, those on the right who are forced to align with the GOP are feeling the winter blues more keenly than at any time in our history. Under assault on all fronts--socially, economically and politically--and taking the usual friendly fire from our Senate moderates, there seems little cause for hope.

But, as in all tribulation, there is always a silver lining. And like George Washington in the winter of 1776, we've got to take advantage of conditions and launch an attack out of our perceived weakness. With this prolonged and snowy winter, we've already got the global-warmists on the run and more importantly, with the stock market plunging every time anyone in the Administration approaches a podium, people are starting to feel the effects of the recession like never before.

The one positive aspect of the 2008 elections is that now that we're out of power, we can go on offense instead of dealing from a cowering, defensive position The time is past when we must summon our policy wonks, or even Rush, to define and defend our views. The very definition of conservativism is, in a way, a backward-looking concept and the only way to sell our message to an America that desires 'change', is to force the left's true agenda out into the open; and then at election time, to contrast theirs with our own.

The key to solving our dilemma is to put liberals in defense of their grand plan. We can cry 'socialism' all we want, but if its tenets are unknown to the American people, we are merely spitting into a howling wind of propaganda. If you've ever engaged in a discussion with a product of the liberal brainwashing machine, you know what I mean. It is useless to use simple facts to refute their programmed views; because these are never based on actuality, but on emotion.

And emotion is an ultra powerful tool when it comes to politics, and it has always been so. This was well demonstrated by William Shakespeare in his tale of the fickleness of the Roman people in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination. Recalling how the use of rhetoric swayed the mob and then applying it to modern America, it makes one want to cry out with Mark Antony, "O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!"

So instead of coming to praise conservatism, let us instead bury socialism. Let's start asking questions; tough, specific questions. Questions that, if asked calmly and often enough, will force Democrats to explain themselves; a perilous risk in defense of an ideology that must constantly be masked with rhetoric and utopian platitudes like 'hope' and 'change'.

Are Democratic solutions to black poverty working? Why have countless other minorities come to this country and flourished--sometimes in less than a generation--when many American-born blacks wallow in liberal-fed despair? Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden can make all the jokes they want about Indians owning gas stations and donut shops, but the fact remains that other peoples of color have managed to work hard and make the American dream their own. Why?

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