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DeMint sets sights on four Dems in 2012 (WOO-HOO!)
The Daily Caller ^ | 12:46 PM 12/02/2010 | By Jeremy P. Jacobs

Posted on 12/02/2010 11:09:20 AM PST by onyx

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint (R) is turning his attention to 2012 and using the vote this week on an earmark moratorium to pick his Democratic targets.

DeMint sent an email to the supporters of his Senate Conservatives Fund early Wednesday highlighting four Democrats who voted against the earmark ban, are up for re-election in 2012 and sit in states that John McCain (R) carried in 2008: Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Kent Conrad (N.D.) and Joe Manchin (W.Va.).

In the email, DeMint called for unseating Tester, Nelson, Conrad and Manchin.

"These senators are nice folks but they have ignored the will of the American people and they must be replaced with principled conservatives in 2012," he said. "That's where the Senate Conservatives Fund comes in and it's where you can help. We've already begun the process of building campaigns against these other liberals in the Senate who are driving our nation deeper and deeper into debt."

DeMint went on to ask for money -- stating that his fund will need "at least $4 million" to win the four races.


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KEYWORDS: 2012; bennelson; demint; joemanchin; jontester; kentconrad; scf; senate
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WOO-HOO!

NO REST FOR THE WICKED!

1 posted on 12/02/2010 11:09:27 AM PST by onyx
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To: upchuck

DeMint ping, please!


2 posted on 12/02/2010 11:10:17 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx
we are learning: personalize, isolate...take out...
3 posted on 12/02/2010 11:11:19 AM PST by bareford101 (For me, there is no difference in a tolerant, open mind and a cess pool. Both are open to filth.)
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To: onyx

“These senators are nice folks...”

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Love ya Jim, but stop it, just stop it.

The future of our country is hanging in the balance. This is no time for niceties. These people are the enemy.


4 posted on 12/02/2010 11:13:53 AM PST by EyeGuy (RaceMarxist Obama: The Politics of Vengeance)
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To: onyx

This guy is the greatest. I wish he’d set his sights on a Higher Office.


5 posted on 12/02/2010 11:14:24 AM PST by samtheman
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To: onyx

No Claire McCaskill?


6 posted on 12/02/2010 11:18:08 AM PST by speciallybland
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To: onyx

I admire DeMint more with each passing day. I hope he’s pro-Palin.


7 posted on 12/02/2010 11:18:11 AM PST by Gator113 (Sarah Palin can win, and she will win.)
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To: samtheman

Hopefully he will run, although I remember him saying something about “too many dogs in the yard already”?

He seems to be our best hope.


8 posted on 12/02/2010 11:19:32 AM PST by Joann37
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To: onyx

Money for the Senate Conservatives Fund is on the way!


9 posted on 12/02/2010 11:20:18 AM PST by 2001convSVT (That Beck guy was right about gold, too.)
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To: EyeGuy

Do you know the above mentioned personally? Jim does. John McCain is a pretty nice guy but politically he stinks. just saying


10 posted on 12/02/2010 11:20:28 AM PST by fish hawk
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To: speciallybland

Not yet.... she voted properly regarding the earmarks.


11 posted on 12/02/2010 11:21:25 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx

DeMint has to be a little more circumspect about RINOs, of course, but he needs to be setting his sights on a few old bulls in the GOP as well.


12 posted on 12/02/2010 11:21:33 AM PST by Spartan79 (Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem.)
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To: EyeGuy

That is normal Senatorial collegial speech.

Like McCain’s “My Friend”...and it’s one reason why Senators tend to make lousy Presidents.

They have too much of that bred into them the longer they are there.

Senators = compromiser’s...the “cooling saucer” designed to slow down legislation from the heated House debates.

I love Jim DeMint and he’s not as bad as most...


13 posted on 12/02/2010 11:22:05 AM PST by t-dude (Sarah causes banal and vituperous evil snarks to shriek in horror!)
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To: bareford101
You're right...Alinsky rules turned 180.
14 posted on 12/02/2010 11:23:20 AM PST by JPG (Sarah dedicated her new book to Trig: "I'm glad you're here.")
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To: onyx

Jim...communists aren’t not ‘nice folks’...


15 posted on 12/02/2010 11:24:22 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: EyeGuy

They all say that or stuff like that... “my friend across the aisle” etc.

They have to. DeMint and other good conservatives have to work in the same Senate chamber with those demonicrats.


16 posted on 12/02/2010 11:24:44 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Gator113

Sorry about Palin to you fans. She is not qualified.She would be a great VP. She is not Pres material. Yes, she makes Zero look bad. We cannot afford anymore experiments with this economy. We need a hard core businessman.


17 posted on 12/02/2010 11:24:48 AM PST by Lumper20
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To: fish hawk

“Do you know the above mentioned personally?”

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Hardly the point. Kicking their asses out of Congress has NOTHING to do with any positive personality attributes.

Gratuitous niceties smack of the same old aisle-crossing appeasement. DeMint has been a stalwart, but I don’t like the soft-pedaled buddy approach.


18 posted on 12/02/2010 11:25:53 AM PST by EyeGuy (RaceMarxist Obama: The Politics of Vengeance)
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To: Gator113

They praise one another.


19 posted on 12/02/2010 11:26:19 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: speciallybland

She must have voted against it. She will be seeking “independence” from democrats the next two years.


20 posted on 12/02/2010 11:27:04 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Is it proper etiquette to tip after a enhanced pat down?)
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