Posted on 09/14/2009 9:14:26 AM PDT by roamer_1
A speech on the floor of the Senate by Sen. Jim DeMint after his attendance at several of the initial TEA Parties back in April of 2009. Time:12:54
DeMint ping
Yehhhhhhh, crawling out from under his desk for a few minutes, a republican congressman makes a speech. Yehhhhhhh.
While I appreciate the general sentiment (more than you know), there is a reason why DeMint was one of the few who were willing or able to stand before the 9.12 TEA Party in DC without getting laughed off the stage.
In fact, it was because of that fact that I am researching him a bit deeper than I have previously. There are very, very few in the Republican Party that I would be willing to endorse, and less than a handful in the senate. But DeMint is looking like one of them. I'll know that better when I have fully vetted his record for my own purposes.
I understand and I recognize that Demint has been more vocal than most of the others. But seriously, when considering all that is happening in the country right now, any legitimate republican congressman would be shouting from a mountaintop every day, forcing the proper amount of focus on everthing. Facts are, none of them are doing so. It is left to the talk radio hosts and the American public to do the work that people like Demint were elected to do.
That is not precisely true. There are 90-100 true Conservatives in the House, and perhaps 10-15 in the Senate, but they are not in control of the party apparatus, nor do they have access to the money (RNC), since they are out of power.
The only difference between any of these and Sarah Palin is the party support that was given to Palin for the purpose of getting McCain't elected. With the MSM already 100% arrayed against them, if the party is against them too, they can yell till they are blue in the face, and there isn't anyone that is going to hear them.
I agree with you in principle, but I have no faith in any of it, to include talk radio (whose infidelity in the past election is not forgotten). My money and my support goes to those who have a proven Conservative record. That is the only measurement I will use to guage any promises.
Tell you what. Let’s see even one of them “Yell until they are blue in the face...” and see what the response is before we decide that no one will hear them. Hell, one guy yells out “You Lie”, and the entire country was talking about it all week.
Don’t cover for these people. They are wusses who are waiting for us to do the heavy lifting, and then once they see the winds change, they’ll bandwagon back to the cause and ask for your money. They’ll get none from me.
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