"IT'S DEAD JIM!" Jim DeMint kills the Last North American RINO
Posted on 09/17/2010 12:30:43 PM PDT by Kartographer
Sen. Jim DeMint proudly recalls the moment he became a thorn in the side of the Republican establishment.
In the gloomy weeks following the party's throttling in the 2008 elections, the first-term South Carolina senator urged GOP leaders to shake up the seniority rules that he felt were perpetuating a broken culture of parochial spending within the party.
"I was told eye-to-eye ... 'DeMint, you can't change the Senate,'" he said in an interview in his Capitol Hill office this week. "I said, 'Well, we'll see.' And that's been my challenge ever since."
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ATTABOY Jim!!!!
Demint is Da Man
Go Jim go.
He was impressive on Greta’s show.
If the liberals can elect an ideologically pure senator without experience to the White House, we can elect an ideologically pure senator with experience to the White House.
Demint is Da Man
After we elect the Palin/Demint or Demint/Palin conservatives,
I want Jim to start naming names.
After all we need RINO Targets for 2012
DeMint for President BUMP.
No wonder many people never vote when the RINOS are inseperable from the Donkeys.
I liked and respected him ever since he spoke out on obamacare. He was the first Republican to speak out and not be intimidated. He was the only Republican Senator to show up at the DC rally. He is principled and he’s at the top of my list for 2012.
The AP/Yahoo title as well as their reasoning behind the title are wrong.
Senator Demint is not “spurring GOP infighting”.
The “infighting” was going on BEFORE Senator Demint took up the banner of one side of that “infighting”, the Conservative base that has been fighting the GOP leadership elites for some years now.
For me, personally, and for many GOP Conservatives I believe, were in that “infighting’ during the Presidency of G.W. Bush, when, increasingly, many of us began to withhold our support and our contributions from the official GOP Congressional campaign committees; because they repeatedly invaded the state primaries to back so-called “moderate” GOP candidates and actively worked against GOP Conservative primary candidates.
I like Senator Demint, and I appreciate what he has been doing - very much.
But he did not create - “spur” this infighting - he joined it, after it was already happening and in doing so he, more than most of the Congressional GOP leadership has been working to make the GOP Congressional leadership relevant again - relevant to the base of the party, even if it offends its country club elite.
When I read the headline, I figured this had to be about the OTHER senator from South Carolina, McCain or whatever they call him.
About time someone besides Sarah Palin picked up the gauntlet. Godspeed Senator DeMint; we’re behind you 1,000%.
I don’t think Alvin would even want Rove now. LOL
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