Energized!

That's what I feel today after returning from nearly two weeks of meetings in Florida and throughout WND's "Tea Party at Sea" Caribbean cruise.

I must admit feeling somewhat isolated lately in my recognition that the conservative movement was failing America at the most critical moment in history, as the country awakens once again to the failure of a mixture of socialism and cultural anarchy.

Before attending WND's "Taking America Back National Conference" in Miami, I was also starting to think few recognized the challenge to the tea-party movement posed by so-called "economic conservatives" who are trying to constrain this dynamic grass-roots uprising to a strictly materialistic agenda.

But after listening to speaker after insightful speaker and meeting hundreds of like-minded Americans from all over the country, I realize I am not alone.

All across America people are getting it.

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They are seeing that we cannot solve America's problems with a strictly economic agenda.

They are seeing that America's economic problems are more a symptom of our drift from constitutional and moral foundations than the disease itself.

They are seeing that America needs a return to Judeo-Christian moorings and the rule of law even more than it needs a tax cut and fiscally sustainable government policies.

In fact, they are seeing that only such a return will deliver the long-term economic policies America so desperately needs.

So that's why I am feeling energized and optimistic today.

I only wish everyone reading this column today could have been there for the meetings I can only describe as "historic." I look forward to sharing much of what took place in Miami and on the high seas in the form of video programming that will inspire millions who couldn't be with us.

We're just over a month away from the most important election in modern American history. I no longer fear Americans will be content with shaking up Congress in 2010 only to return to their slumber.

There's something happening out there – something big, something transformational, something very, very encouraging.

What am I seeing today?

I'm seeing Americans clearly rediscovering what made this country so great:

• Like our forefathers, we believe we are accountable to our own consciences and to the God of the universe who grants us unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

• Like our forefathers, we believe the Constitution strictly limits the power of the federal government and uniquely recognizes and protects those unalienable individual rights.

The greatest freedom movement in the history of the world was waged right here in America two centuries ago. I don't believe we can improve any on the central vision they had for self-government, the rule of law and the will of the people – and, without question, lots of other Americans are coming to the same conclusions.

We want to keep alive and maintain the principles that made America the greatest nation in the world.

The fundamental problems we face in this country today go well beyond the economic and the material. We need God back in the center of our loves.

It's not just the "big tent" Republican politicians who want the tea-party movement to constrain its focus to economics and materialism. They share that common denominator with Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The latter trio is hoping the 2010 election is little more than one step backward in their grand scheme to socialize and secularize our society.

If the materialists have their way, even a big tea-party victory in November will not halt our 22-year slide toward insolvency, tyranny, immorality and injustice.

It's not going to be easy to stop them.

It's not just the radical Democrats who want to stop this popular uprising. We also need to battle the Republican establishment, the big media and a cultural elite who think they are smarter and wiser than our forefathers.

What we do in the next two years will determine whether our children have a chance to grow up in a free society or live in chains. It will determine whether we return to the rule of law or live under the rule of men.

And today I am feeling energized about the prospects for victory.