Taking on Mitch’s pick in his home state.. My My.
Ballsy!
DeMint for Senate Majority Leader
(especially if we get the Senate back)
Boy howdy, I love beating them to the post.
Proud to have DeMint represent me!
Trey Grayson. I must say that, the minute I heard that name, it turned me off. Anyone named Trey Grayson by his parents has a lot of growing up to do. And, sure enough, the name fits. Typical privileged RINO.
I read an article just the other day that said McConnell and DeMint had an agreement not to officially endorse anyone in this contest.
I guess McConnell's so desperate to gain control of Kentucky's other senate vote that he broke the agreement.
Granted, his rating was only 1% higher, but it's almost unheard-of for any Senators or Representatives to score a higher NTU Fiscal Conservatism rating than Ron Paul (I think that Senator Coburn and Representative Flake were the only others to do so in the most recent cycle).
I expect that DeMint wants a solid ally whom he can count on to vote "NO!" when the Trillion-dollar Deficits are coming down the pike and the squishy RINO "moderates" are selling their votes to the highest bidder. I hope that Rand Paul will be that ally.
He'd better be. It's perfectly okay for Ron Paul to be an independent Republican thorn-in-the-side of the GOP leadership, because Ron Paul has always won his own District without any endorsements from anyone (except for Ronald Reagan back in the early 80s); and 81% of the Republicans in his District support him in that niche. But Rand Paul needs to be more of a Team Player with the Palin/DeMint wing of the Republican Party, because HE OWES THEM!! Big Time!! Fortunately, I think he will be.
Pinging "Allegra" only because she wondered, on another thread, whether or not there were any Republicans-not-named-Paul on whom we could agree; I think I'd like to add Jim DeMint to that list (he seems like a great guy -- honestly, I just hadn't followed his career that closely until more recently). I've even heard some FReepers plugging him for POTUS in 2012; but for now it looks to me like DeMint is doing fine work in the Senate, and so I'll probably stick with the Moose-hunting Hockey Mom, for now.
Paul is unfortunately winning the endorsement race.
...for those interested....
sorry, firefox crashed :(
Rand Paul: http://www.randpaul2010.com/
Trey Grayson: www.treygraysonforsenate.com
Bill Johnson: http://kentuckybill.com