Sounds a little arrogant, DeMint seems to be running a stealth candidacy of some kind, but not for president.
DeMint has always been Romney's right hand man inside conservatism.
DeMint isn’t hostile to Romney but he most certainly is not Romney’s ‘right hand man’. He did endorse him in 2008 as did Herman Cain and many ‘conservatives’ but I’d go to the mat for Jim. He is a bit too fond of Romney which flies in the face of reason but there is absolutely no question of DeMint’s committment to conservatism. He just has the same weakness that many conservatives have they don’t always know how to differentiate between personal relationships and policy relationships. I’ve seen this happen with talk show hosts and media personalities when a big name candidate suddenly gives them attention and access. It drives me crazy because I have far left friends who I personally like but I’d never confuse a personal relationship with a political one. There are plenty of conservatives I don’t like but who I’d have their back in a heartbeat on policy.
I’ll never understand the Romney effect on some conservatives. My only conclusion is they just are blinded by something I don’t see. I look at policies first and actions. Romney doesn’t have a good job creation record, he had to be stopped by Democrats to keep from levying draconian fees on businesses, his judical appointments were largely liberal and some were outright activist judges one of which released a violent murderer who went on to kill a newlywed couple, he also continued to fund liberal puff causes to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars when the state was in a deep fiscal mess and he left the state with a Health Care mandate that is bankrupting the state and was used as a model for Obamacare.
Tell me what redeeming value this man has politically to conservatives? There is absolutely no reason to trust him in his record. He’s not a fighter, he doesn’t talk straight, his business experience is from the top not from building something from the ground up. He started out rich and got richer arguably more from cutting jobs rather than creating them. He does have a beautiful family and I’m sure personally he is great but that doesn’t make him our candidate. Our candidate needs to be someone who will not behave as if he is ashamed to be seen with our kind, who is not uncomfortable talking about smaller govt and founding principles, who understands that the role of govt including state govt is not to proscribe the health care that we will have or not have.
I did a bit of checking:
DeMint is on record now saying the following:
“he “would never consider” endorsing the ex-governor in 2012 unless he repudiated the Massachusetts health care law.”
I still don’t like the fact that he is comfortable with Romney. Romney would hurt our cause horribly.