O'DONNELL: The conservative movement was told to curl up a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed. During those dark days when common sense patriotic Americans were looking for some silver lining, they stumbled upon the Constitution.

You see, a funny thing happened along the way to our assigned seats on the sideline. Those of us who had toiled for years in the values movement suddenly found ourselves surrounded by Americans who had rediscovered the most fundamental value of all: liberty. These Americans were finding answers to our current problem that threatens our future in the wisdom of our once threatened past. Our friends and neighbors began to join us at the rallies, under the Don't Tread on Me flag, they were looking around and saying, as Speaker Gingrich often says, "There are more of us than there are of them."