Posted on 09/17/2010 3:59:13 PM PDT by Qbert
Though he didn't name her specifically, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) blasted Senate colleague Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) Friday morning during a speech to the Values Voters Summit.
"Even in Alaska, the home of bacon, they threw out that senator," DeMint told an applauding crowd as he discussed the Tea Party movement.
He also took the opportunity to praise Murkowski's challenger, local Alaska attorney Joe Miller, to whom she conceded the Republican Senate primary on Sept. 1, and to express his fondness for the Tea Party movement.
"Tea parties? I've been to a lot of them," he said to more applause.
He went on to criticize "senior Republicans in the Senate" for not supporting insurgents.
"Some of our establishment friends are not really happy with me, or you," he said.
With comments like these, DeMint has increasingly found himself at the center of tensions between establishment Republicans and rising Tea Party challengers.
On Friday, he acknowledged his role in encouraging Republicans who "understand the importance of having a culture based on values."
"I've been working to stir up primaries between establishment Republicans and those that stand for the principles of freedom," he allowed, listing GOP Senate nominees Sharron Angle (Nev.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Rand Paul (Ky.), and Christine O'Donnell (Del.) as "candidates we can be proud of."
"This is no longer you voting for the least-worst on the ballot," he told the audience. "Washington has treated Americans like they were stupid for too long. On November 2, you're going to see who is stupid. They're going to be out of Washington, and you're going to be in."
The people have spoken but as usual they can’t hear us.
This country needs a lot more Jim DeMints.
We will need Christine in the Senate even more so with this developement. Murkowski will be voting with the dimoKKKRATS in the lame duck session and we will need Christine in there to balance her out.
Jim DeMint can be very refreshing.
If all this negativity toward the Tea Parties has to do with right wingnuts, then how to the critics explain members of the Tea Party who belong to the Democratic Party?
Or African-Americans?
I thought the Tea Partiers were supposed to be racist right wing conspirators. The accusations don’t survive the light of day/reality.
Today’s speech was the first time I’ve ever heard DeMint deliver a prepared address. Very, very impressive. He’s very much at ease and has a wonderful delivery. He moved around a lot and was constantly staring at teleprompters. Does an excellent job of connecting with the crowd.
He would be a very serious presidential candidate, I just don’t know if we can afford to lose him in the Senate. He’d make a great Senate Majority Leader.
Even a Junior DeMint?
Amen. These people in DC think they are Gods gift to America and no one has the right to dethrone them. With few exceptions like DeMint we need to clean that ‘outhouse” out .
He’s great! I hope he keeps their feet to the fire. They sure do have a hard time letting go don’t they? Sometimes I muse on how Pelosi will handle it (just for fun).
Sorry, I meant “wasn’t” constantly staring at the teleprmpters
We are going to drop Jim DeMint into the open wound of America and he is going to stave off the Leftist infection for a miraculous recovery.
“This country needs a lot more Jim DeMints.”
Coming soon this November...
“He would be a very serious presidential candidate, I just don’t know if we can afford to lose him in the Senate.”
Yeah, that’s a tough question. I’m inclined to lean towards the latter choice (for now at least), especially since 2010 is just the beginning of turning things around in Congress. But who knows?
I’m convinced that Jim is convinced that his side has the other side out numbered. hee hee
We need more like this.......
Amen. And, hopefully, starting on November 3rd, reinforcements will have begun to arrive.
In response to DeMint's blast, Murkowski announced today that, since it is too late to get her name on the ballot as an independent in Alaska's general election, she will undertake a write-in campaign in an effort to throw the election to the Democrat.
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ahahaha - good one
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