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Posted on 08/29/2010 12:55:46 AM PDT by County Agent Hank Kimball
'I'd rather lose with Pat Toomey than win with Arlen Specter any day." That's South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint defending his Senate Conservatives Fund, a new PAC that has taken Washington by storm.
The fund-raising group has already helped eight underdog Reaganite candidates win Republican Senate primaries this year. In two years, the fund has raised and spent nearly $2 million from nearly 50,000 individual contributors.
Mr. DeMint's mission is to bring more Jim DeMints to the Senate—that is, people with an unfailing antagonism to big government. But his string of victories, often against establishment candidates, has many of his Republican colleagues grumbling. They say Mr. DeMint is pushing candidates through the primaries who are too far to the right to take back vulnerable seats from Democrats in November. Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott recently spoke for many in the party when he said it didn't need anymore "Jim DeMint disciples."
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Hank
Win with tofu politicians and you’ve won nothing at all.
By the way, I love Jim DeMint.
He’s on my short list for 2012.
“... In two years, the fund has raised and spent nearly $2 million from nearly 50,000 individual contributors. ... “
Putting that into perspective, Juan spend $21 million on his AZ primary.
Let’s support DeMint as much as possible to “level the playing field”, as a certain Mr. Jackson would say.
DeMint ping
Top of my list, too. Hey, if they can get one of their senators into the Oval Office, why can’t we?
Thank you for posting this....I can’t imagine the Senate without Jim Demint. He has done so much for grassroot conservatives and the candidates they support....
Still waiting on that Christine O’donnell endorsement though....
Trust me on this, though, Jim won't have a bit of problem dealing with the other frat boys looking down their noses and making fun of the Deltas.
Regards
DEMINT!
Sounds like my kind of candidate.
Don't know much about him, but as it appears more and more that Palin either won't or can't run in 2012, may have to investigate him.
I think Jim is right, its better to loses to a full blooded democrat Statist, then win with a halfbreed traitor.
Maybe we will never win congress again but there are other ways to fight and win this war. We know this cause our enemy has a fatal flaw, their ideology is self-destructive. Meaning if we can hunker down within our States and build walls of nullification to evade and halt their invasion, we can simply wait for them to kill or weaken themselves.
We don’t have to compromise our values and virtues over the long run.
(Of course this is why I hate the Tyrant Lincoln, an uber liberal-statist of his time, that sought to deny us that inalienable right of last resort against statist/socialist/communist(ideologues who support unconditional(unlimited) Government power.))
We have to overcome or get around this evil if we are to keep them from taking us down with em to the hell of their own creation.
I think after years of work starting with the Democrats under bush, we are moving back into a position in which we can implement this non-compromising strategy and survive.
We will slowly by war of striation and example force them to return to limited government. Our victories will be felt in terms of the effect of State nullification.
Our victory’s will be measurable in terms of Federal political acceptance of there limitations in each area, and liberal liberal realization of the self-destructive nature of their big government systems.
Either way, however long it takes them, we still win both in the mean time and in the long run.
“Don’t know much about him, but as it appears more and more that Palin either won’t or can’t run in 2012, may have to investigate him.”
DeMint for party chairman, Not President. Senators have always made bad Presidents! We need a Governor or someone else with executive experience to be President.
We need DeMint as chairman of the NRSC.
Cornyn has been an utter failure and disgrace. How much money has Cornyn spent defeating conservatives running against RINOs who take GOP money then become Democrats?
Cornyn has such utterly inept instincts, if he was working for a private firm, he would have been fired long ago.
While Senators who were professional pols have, at least in modern memory, made poor presidents, Jim ran his own company for a long time before he entered politics. He has plenty of executive experience although I think many people have a larger company than his in mind when they use that term. I'm not sure he'd change his mind and want to be president but if he did, he would do just fine (except in the eyes of those who think playing games is part of doing well in that job). In fact, he would probably see the job as a lot more like it used to be than as the expanded role it's become and just stick to being the head of the executive branch instead of trying to replace the other two branches through the use of executive orders.
Regards
This is exactly what the party needs, and what the USA needs.
What we don't need is commie Democrats and commie RINOs destroying what remains of the USA. Hang'em all.
Most Excellent!
Beautiful!
More accurately, Trent, ol' buddy, ol' pal, the party could use a lot fewer Trent Lotts.
When people say "there's something wrong about Washington" they're talking about you and your ilk.
If only they hadn't wasted so much money trying to defeat conservative Republicans ...
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