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Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, was one of Mitt Romney's top backers during the 2008 presidential campaign...

Jim DeMint, what a RINO for endorsing Romney in 2008.

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It was Romney, Huckabee, or McCain. Romeny was better than the other two. Here was the analysis at the time.

DeMint is "splitting not just from Graham, but from Sanford and perhaps leading some of the Bush faction that doesn't want to go over to McCain," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. McCain "is not conservative enough for many of the conservative Republicans of South Carolina."