In this country, things can change swiftly, so I am hoping that 2010 will mark a change of the magnitude such as marked the 1820s. Time will tell. Pols like Miller and Rubio belong to a generation born after the last of the Boomers. Not all the Boomers were liberals, and DeMint is evidence of that.
Hell, the Boomers gave you Ronald Reagan. What more do you want. The hippies were a minority, which is why Nixon's much ridiculed "Great Silent Majority" gave him a monster landslide in 1972.
I. unfortunately to some degree, am a Boomer and I HAVE NEVER NEVER NEVER BEEN A LIBERAL. I have been screaming warnings about communism since the Beatnik days (Google it...) Finally, folks are starting to understand that Liberals want to enslave us, destroy or culture and destroy or economic prosperity and political freedoms. They took our "cultural hand gun" and turned it on us and we didn't even notice. I noticed and so have many, many Goldwater Conservatives of the past...