Posted on 01/27/2011 11:16:32 AM PST by t-dude
TheIowaRepublican.com has confirmed that South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint will soon visit the Hawkeye State. Sen. DeMint is scheduled to travel to the home of the First-In-The-Nation caucus on Saturday, March 26th.
DeMint will be in Iowa to keynote an event for Congressman Steve King. The event, which is being billed as a “conference,” will not be held in the 5th Congressional District, which King represents, but rather it will be held in Des Moines. King will release more details about the event later today.
Just yesterday, DeMint told CNN Anchor Wolf Blitzer that he’s not running for President, but that’s not preventing Human Event’s “Conservative of the Year” from traveling to Iowa later this spring. President Obama once emphatically told reporters that he wasn’t running for president, yet today, his family occupies the most famous address in the world.
For months, members of the news media have lamented over the relatively slow start to the 2012 caucuses. That slow start is now a thing of the past as potential candidates like Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Tim Pawlenty have all visited the state lately, and the national media is now eagerly following the race.
Bachmann’s visit a week ago created quite a stir as FOX News followed her every step, but for one reason or another, Bachmann didn’t utilize one of her biggest assets while in Iowa – her personal relationship with King. Many question whether or not Bachmann will actually run for president in 2012, but the news that King is bringing in DeMint to the state is the largest development to occur in the young caucus season.
Many conservatives across the nation, including some here in Iowa, would like to see DeMint run for president. It’s easy to see what these people like in him. His conservative credentials are impeccable. His willingness to stand up to his own party is admirable. And, his appeal as a candidate would be broad.
We should also not forget that DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund is largely responsible for giving the country Senators Marco Rubio and Pat Toomey, but he also helped elect Senators Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Ron Johnson as well.
Just like he did in those 2010 U.S. Senate races, maybe DeMint would rather play kingmaker than be the king himself. The idea that the conservative icon from Iowa (King) will be hosting the conservative icon from South Carolina (DeMint) makes this one event that Iowa caucus goers, and of course the media, will not want to miss.
If DeMint is absolutely not running for president, and King’s “conference” is opened up to other presidential candidates to attend, this might even turn out to be the most important and public job interview any presidential candidate will ever have.
Receiving the seal of approval from both King and DeMint would go a long way toward paving the way to the nomination when you consider the political sway both King and DeMint have in their respective states, which hold two of the first three major contests.
TheIowaRepublican.com will post the details of this event when they are made available.
As you said “FWIW”.
“President Obama once emphatically told reporters that he wasn’t running for president, yet today, his family occupies the most famous address in the world.”
BIG difference between DeMint, and Obama. DeMint isn’t on record as the liar of the century.
FWIW? My opinion is that Sen. DeMint would benefit greatly with Sarah Palin in the White House if it’s his goal to take back our country via the tea party. To that end, it makes sense for him to go to Iowa and promote the tea party ideals to help lay the groundwork for a tea party endorsed president. I believe Michelle Bachmann may be working towards that goal as well.
Hot Damn!
Yes , I would love for several conservatives to enter the race and keep the RINOS from controlling the debate.
Sarah, Michele or Jim for president would be great, but also together would be able to squash the likes of Rudy, Mitt and Huck.
I think DeMint should be free to change his mind, without being accused of being a liar.
True, but then how do we keep the conservatives from splitting the vote so widely that one of the RINOs sneaks in? That's what happened in the Indiana Senate race. Any one of the four - FOUR - conservatives in that race could have beaten Coats in a head-to-head matchup, and then gone on to easily win the general. But, by splitting up the conservative vote, Coats got back in. Coats doesn't strike me as a full-blown RINO, but he is way too establishtarian, I'll-scratch-your-back-if-you-scratch-mine for my taste.
DeMint said he wasn’t and I tend to take him at his word.
I wish this would be a time he would break his word and run, I would break my back working to get him elected.
He’s about the only one I feel that strongly about.
I like a couple of others but none like DeMint!
No.
Too many conservatives splits our base and lets a RINO win with a plurality.
See: Nixon, Ford, Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney? - -the establishment is VERY good at getting their candidate. They are playing Chess while we play checkers.
They do it every time.
Divided we (as conservatives) fall.
If we want a conservative nominee we will have to come together behind a single candidate early on.
It is becoming apparent to me, a vote for anyone other than Governor Palin is a defacto vote for Romney.
I agree. You apparently read my post standing on your head looking in a mirror.
Er, I was making a general statement for general consumption.
If she's splitting the vote with Jim DeMint, then a vote for Palin is a vote for Romney!
DeMint/King
You really haven’t got a clue, have you?
You need to find a little island where you can set up your little pissant fantasy world of conservative delusion.
I vote conservatives only. Palin has as much liberal baggage as a Huck or Mitt or Barbour.
You’re as delusional as pissant.
Yeah, I’ve heard it. Blah blah blah.
No one you support will ever be president, so in that regard, you make a good contra-indicator.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2664135/posts
DeMint Says 'No' to 2012 Run for President
If by "delusional," you mean "non-supportive of amnesty queens," then you are quite right.
If by "delusional," you mean "non-supportive of amnesty queens," then you are quite right.
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