[BfloGuy]

DeMint supporting Romney.

Who'd have thunk it? I'm surprised and disappointed.

What's DeMint's defense mean?

[Leaning Right]

Romney signed the final bill.

It’s Romney’s bill. Case closed.

Why can’t DeMint see this?

[Carley]

WRONG

DeMint discussed this and of course, the msm totally mischaracterizes his statement.

[JoeFromSidney]

If Romney didn't like the bill, he could have vetoed it. Like it or not, it's Romneycare, and I say to hell with it.

[Bigtigermike]

I know that Demint backtrack today from his earlier statements on Mitt but still it’s silly for him to even hang around the dead weight call mitt Romney....run away Jim, run away Jim!

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

If Demint supports Romney, who is not a conservative, I no longer support Demint.

This is how you blow your credibility. Way to go Jim.

[Drill Thrawl]

Doesn't surprise me in the least. I always thought demint was an opportunistic weasal. Not entirely different than the other RINO senator from SC.

P-touy!

[Pollster1]

At least on this one point, I’m willing to consider DeMint’s comments to be diplomacy. If he turns into a McCain, he’s off my list, but I don’t demand that every sentence uttered be pure even when considered in isolation.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

I think it means point #1:

Thoughts for the day

Republicans win in 2012. They are going to try very hard to force an insider candidate like Gingrich or Romney on us.

Conservatives are kept too busy. Downsize some, and give a day a week to joining/starting Tea Party action groups if you really want things to change.

Get rid of the TV. Even the most aware people are swallowing subtle propaganda through the TV.

Muslim atrocities in the USA are sure to punctuate the next few years. When they occur, try to open the public debate about muslim immigration. With each new muslim atrocity, the level of public discussion about the issue deserves to increase.

[snippy_about_it]

I wish you people would research before you go spouting the MSM as gospel. DeMint supported Romney in 2008, these are quotes from 2008. DeMint is not now supporting Romney. This is rehashed liberal media spin and you bit.

DeMint is my senator and no, he is not supporting Romney for 2012.

[2ndDivisionVet]

PING!!

[Cheetahcat]

HUH ?? Willard OWNS that,Like a tattoo across the face,saying “Beware my judgment SUCKS”.

[Jim Robinson]

Huge disappointment.

[Gator113]

VERY disappointing.

[The Cajun]

Damn! Stupid, stupid, stupid!
I had DeMint as my #3 behind Palin and Bachmann.
Very disappointed and will be very hard for me to support him.
He had better straighten himself out on this.........Real quick!

[DoughtyOne]

From here on out I refer to him as DeMinted.

[Qbert]

Sigh. Get all the facts first:

“DeMint won’t back Romney without repudiation of Mass. health law”

By Michael O’Brien - 03/17/11 02:13 PM ET

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) “would never consider” endorsing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president again in 2012 unless Romney repudiates the health reforms he sought as governor, a source close to DeMint said Thursday.

A source close to the conservative icon emphasized that, despite comments to The Hill indicating that Romney shouldn’t shoulder all the political blame for the Massachusetts healthcare plan, DeMint wouldn’t endorse Romney again unless he admits the plan was mistaken.

“It’s obvious Jim was just trying to be nice to the guy he backed over McCain, as many conservatives did in 2008,” the source said. “But he would never consider backing Romney again unless he admits that his Massachusetts healthcare plan was a colossal mistake.”

DeMint told The Hill that he hadn’t decided who he would endorse in the 2012 Republican presidential primary and said that Romney wasn’t entirely to blame for the elements of the Massachusetts healthcare plan that conservatives now deplore.

DeMint said:
One of the reasons I endorsed Romney is his attempts to make private health insurance available at affordable prices. He set the goal that all folks in Massachusetts would have affordable health insurance. By the time it got through the Democratic state legislature, it had all these mandates on it, requirements about what kind of policies would be bought — the same thing that happened up here — instead of getting people insured, it was a government takeover. So I applaud the goal — my goal is to have every American with a private health insurance plan that they can keep throughout their lives. And so, I still admire him for taking on the task, but I think it’s important to recognize that that’s not where we want our healthcare to go. States can compete with different plans, but we shouldn’t have anything like what they did in Massachusetts at the federal level.
Romney’s faced considerable scrutiny from some conservatives and other Republican presidential candidates for his plan, which bears many resemblances to the healthcare plan President Obama signed into law a year ago. It contains an individual mandate to purchase insurance.

Other Republicans on Capitol Hill who backed Romney in 2008 have afforded him a great deal of leeway over the plan, arguing that it is hardly a death blow to Romney’s presidential aspirations.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/150495-demint-wont-back-romney-without-repudiation-of-mass-health-law

[stockpirate]

The title of the article is misleading to say the least. DeMint gave an intelligent answer to the question he was asked.

[surfer]

We just need options specifically people who have never been in office.

[surfer]

We just need options specifically people who have never been in office.

[Antoninus]

I won't believe it until I hear it somewhere other than WaPo.

For the record, Romney is toxic. Any Republican who supports him will not get my vote. Period.