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Jim DeMint's bid to embrace tea party irks Senate GOP colleagues
Politico ^ | 3/12/10 | Jon Martin

Posted on 03/12/2010 2:45:39 PM PST by pissant

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To: pissant

Since when did Martin care about endangered Republicans? He’s just pissed that DeMint is not playing the game in Washington.


41 posted on 03/12/2010 3:24:31 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Islam is incompatible with American traditions and values)
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To: burghguy

2014


42 posted on 03/12/2010 3:25:19 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: pissant

I’d love to have Jim DeMint as my congressman.


43 posted on 03/12/2010 3:27:12 PM PST by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 143)
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To: pissant

I’d also love to have him as my Senator.......boy was that dumb!

I have an excuse!


44 posted on 03/12/2010 3:28:50 PM PST by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 143)
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To: pissant

Lot did not have too many friends in Sodom or Gomorrah, either. The wicked hated him.

He came out of it OK


45 posted on 03/12/2010 3:28:57 PM PST by silverleaf ("Congress is America's only native criminal class."- Mark Twain)
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To: pissant

That’s the ticket I could get behind.


46 posted on 03/12/2010 3:29:51 PM PST by SoDak (bitter clinger)
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47 posted on 03/12/2010 3:34:28 PM PST by byteback
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To: pissant

Hutchison found out what being a sitting Senator meant to the people at home. Obviously the RINOs still don’t get it.


48 posted on 03/12/2010 3:35:31 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: ncalburt

“Its a Politico divide & conquer hit piece by GOP hater Johnny Martin.”

I agree, I’m not taking the bait. Hope no one else does too.


49 posted on 03/12/2010 3:35:34 PM PST by Hurricane
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To: Hurricane
JOhnny Martin is hard core GOP hater and Obama worshiper .
This lefty came from the Wash Compost where he wrote a dozen MACCA phony scandal stories for Senator Webb.
50 posted on 03/12/2010 3:51:35 PM PST by ncalburt (e)
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To: Truth29
If South Carolina is deeply Conservative, how should we explain Lindsey Graham?

It was him or a Democrat, that was the only choice we had. If it wasn't him, Democrats would have STILL had a 60 vote super majority even with Scott Brown's election. Pragmatism won it for him the last time. The next time, all bets are off.

51 posted on 03/12/2010 4:02:54 PM PST by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: pissant
Hunter/DeMint 2012

Ditto that ticket.

52 posted on 03/12/2010 4:05:47 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Truth29
If South Carolina is deeply Conservative, how should we explain Lindsey Graham?

No one can.

53 posted on 03/12/2010 4:07:35 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: burghguy
Jim DeMint is one of the few Republican senators that I support with my contributions.

Last week, I sent him $25 via his web site.

54 posted on 03/12/2010 4:09:53 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: pissant

The “tea party” is just rank and file Repubs for the most part. GOP politicians who find them embarrassing are themselves an embarrassment as they prove again and again.

The fact that DeMint is looking for “tea party” support shouldn’t be any surprise since the tea party is us. The surprise and newsworthy man-bites-dog would be the GOPer who expected to stay in office without rank and file Repub support. And these are precisely the guys we need to get rid of.

Similarly, the GOPers who go out of their way to attack Palin irritate me. She’s not perfect, I don’t know that she’s my pick for president if she’s running. But she has been one of road-bumps and road blocks to O’s agenda from day one along with DeMint and a small handful of others. So anyone who sees her as a problem in the party, like anyone who sees the tea partying grandmas and grandpas who make up this party as a problem, will have a hard time demanding my support for dog catcher much less president.


55 posted on 03/12/2010 4:10:13 PM PST by marron
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How about DeMint/Hunter 2012?

Either way, I'd go with that combination.

DeMint on the ticket needs no explanation.

A few years ago when Hunter was campaigning and I saw his stance on ILLEGAL immigration... BANG! He was the guy we need to uphold our Constitution.

I am not a single-voter-issue guy, but fundamental principles to our Constitution are paramount.

56 posted on 03/12/2010 4:18:17 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: pissant

The time has come for all of us to realize that the GOP RINOs rule the GOP.

Why do all the Palin fanatics cover her mistakes amd look the other way while she enbraces McCain? They do it for the same reason she supports him now. McCain and his RINO buddies rule the roost. The only way a conservative can win is to take over the GOP. Most of them now will pretend to be conservative to win, then become a RINO.

Do you all wonder why Scott Brown won? This is a RINO dream. Why? Because he ain’t as far left as Obozo. This party cannot win as a conservative unless the party elites see no other way out. Until then, they can run Mitt Romney and he can win because he ain’t Obozo.

Hay all you Palin apologists? If she were your hero she would be bucking the GOP establishment. Instead she is out there sucking up to McCain. She knows as well as you do that she hasn’t a prayer to get anywhere otherwise. So lets all forget the phoniness and get down to the truth.


57 posted on 03/12/2010 4:21:14 PM PST by dforest
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To: pissant

One more reason to like DeMint!


58 posted on 03/12/2010 4:25:19 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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To: bwc2221

“Does South Carolina have a large gay population? Just asking.”
Do you always ask stupid questions? Just askin’


59 posted on 03/12/2010 4:37:59 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: pissant; alrea; Babsig; Canticle_of_Deborah; Cheap_Hessian; conservativeharleyguy; DollyCali; ...
Jim DeMint: one of the few: kicking ass and taking names.

God bless Jim DeMint.

  
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Follow Sen. DeMint on Twitter.

60 posted on 03/12/2010 7:51:12 PM PST by upchuck (Moslem terrorists kill not because of what they experience but because of what they believe.)
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