Posted on 03/12/2010 2:45:39 PM PST by pissant
Sen. Jim DeMint is making a bid to be the tea party movements best friend in Washington. Its hardly a coincidence that the South Carolina Republican finds himself with few friends in his own workplace.
DeMint ideological warrior, cable TV regular, possible 2012 presidential candidate is trying to channel the anti-establishment passions roiling the conservative movement while serving in the U.S. Senate, which even in a more raffish age of politics still counts as the most establishmentarian institution in American life.
Examples of his senatorial poor form keep growing. DeMint has refused to endorse some of his fellow Republican senators facing intraparty challenges from the right. He openly backs some candidates opposed by his partys Senate leadership. And he is unabashed in announcing that the best way to win influence in the Senate is not by making friends and patiently massaging the legislative process but by exerting public pressure from activists and the media to bear on his colleagues.
Not surprisingly, his colleagues dont especially like it. Many GOP senators privately scoff at DeMint as a showboating opportunist and a pain in certain parts of the anatomy. Even in on-the-record interviews, some Republican senators said that DeMint does not appreciate the need for a successful party to widen its ideological and geographic base beyond the deeply conservative Southern state he represents.
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Hunter/DeMint 2012
I can’t find a down side to DeMint but you know it will show up soon. And I think you have the ticket upside down. ;)
It appears some of the GOP RINOS want to make their tent bigger!
Ignore It !
Awww the RINO..Rockefeller Republicans don’t like DeMint? That makes me KNOW he is doing the RIGHT THING! Keep it up!!!!
DeMint/Thompson 2012 or DeMint/Palin.....
I’d rather ignore the RINOs who endorsed Arlen, Charlie Loafers, and McCain
Must be referring to Capt. Irk himself, John McCain.
He’s got a few downsides, but far fewer than most.
DeMint 2012!
Too bad he pays lip service to his pansy SC colleague.
Johnny Martin was caught chanting Obama’s anme at the DNC convention by the Fox crew and Hugh Hewitt.
Need I say anymore.
No doubt. The entire MSM is the same way
That’s certainly a black stain on his soul.
A better way to write this: Jim DeMint’s bid to embrace tea party irked former Senate GOP pansies.
If South Carolina is deeply Conservative, how should we explain Lindsey Graham?
DeMint gets it. His colleagues are a little slow.
From Politico, this is a Medal of Honor.
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