Posted on 09/11/2010 2:10:28 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is on former House majority leader Dick Armey’s list of Republicans he could support for president in 2012.
Asked during a panel discussion Friday night on the Tea Party movement to name several leaders he would like to see challenge President Obama, he also listed Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
“There’s no shortage of good people,” said Armey, the chairman of FreedomWorks, a free-market group helping to organize this weekend’s Tea Party 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington.
Armey also suggested that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is not his ideal candidate in 2012. “There’s nobody from Alaska on my list,” he said.
He did, however, go on to say that he’d prefer Palin as president to the White House’s current occupant.
His comments came during a discussion titled “Examining the Tea Party” at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. with The Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson, the New York Times’ Kate Zernike and Harvard professor Jill Lepore.
Use to like Army when he was in congress, but now he seems to be just one of the good old boys network....that Sarah stomped on when she became gov. of Alaska..
Ah gee, another reason he’s unhappy with Sarah...lol.
Hands off, Armey. It’s the MSM’s job to pick our candidate.
Sarah is the only way to go. Timmy P has less than zero of a chance, the idea that Army and Timmy can not see this fact shows that Army is not qualified to speak.
But bashing Sarah Palin is wrong!!!
What she has to do is to overwhelm the party machinery with a broad-based peoples' movement. To do that she has to be the unquestioned leader of that movement and now she has been questioned. If she can marginalize Armey, the rest will topple in order. This is her chance.
At some point she must dispatch the dauphin without distraction..
“This is her chance.”
LOL, she gets a “chance” a day.
Really he is saying to himself, wait a minute, I am the darling of the Tea Party Movement....This has to be it!!!
People like Armey are why we are where we are now. During the contract with America days, he was all about term limits. Until that is when he came to power. The attitude then became ..we don’t need no stinkin term limits... We never heard anything on that issue after the election.
Ya,it is the same old crap, get a little notice then cozy up to the insiders and good old boys. I like DeMint but Sarah is a far better leader.Sarah has the guts and instinct of the founders which is what these times demand.
Armey might not think Palin is quite ready to be president, but why go out of his way to insult her? Why did he go out of his way to insult James Dobson a few years ago?
Veteran politicians, like Armey, encounter lots of people in their own party they don’t particularly like. But they are usually too discreet to single them out for criticism. Why does he so obviously dislike Palin and Dobson?
So you’re incapable of getting my point about trying to enforce group think, I see. Or that the Left has no corner on this particular market.
Dick Army’s tea party is NOT my Tea Party...I wouldn’t go to a Tea Party even where he claimed to be leading it...
DeMint is a conservative with his feet planted firmly in Washington D.C. GOP establishment could see him as a foil for Palin.
They want Romney—anyone other than Palin.
Great post. Sliced and diced this old charlatan and his talking points and notes for the interview nicely.
Dick Armey is the face (one of the legion of faces, actually) of the GOP's sometimes laudable past.
Sarah Palin is the single-brightest face of the Republican Party's glorious future.
I have a dream...
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“DeMint should definitely be high on the list for 2012. Nothin’ wrong with that!”
First of all, Demint has already said he is not running. Armey threw him in the mix along with the other three whom he really likes.
Second of all, Demint is not a great candidate. He is a solidly conservative vote in the U.S. Senate, which is a relative rarity these days and which makes hims stand out. He will be much less a standout in a U.S., Senate populated by the likes of Miller, Angle, O’Donnell and Lee. He is a regional candidate who would have little appeal outside the South. ANd he is not at all electrifying as a speaker.
Third, his last foray into national politics was to support Mitt Romney and to praise Romney Care in a letter he wrote in 2007:
“Governor Romney...knows that doing the right thing means that every American must have access to quality healthcare. He passed such a plan as Governor and would support other innovative state and federal solutions, rejecting an unworkable “one-size-fits-all” approach. I support Governor Romney because he believes all Americans should have a health plan that they can afford, own and keep.”
http://www.humanevents.com/rightangle/index.php?p=19396&gd=01092007
That letter and the glowing endorsement would be hung around Demint’s neck both in a GOP primary and in the General election.
No thanks.
I’m fine with DeMint, but geez, I certainly wouldn’t be all gah gah over a Dick Armey endorsement.
Dick Armey is the face (one of the legion of faces, actually) of the GOP's sometimes laudable past.
Sarah Palin is the single-brightest face of the Republican Party's glorious future.
The one most reliable metric of just how "right" a potential candidate is for the future of the GOP and The American Dream, is how far the projectile vomit of the Dembicies flies at the mention of their name. Those who make the Libsnots' heads spin the fastest, and screech the loudest, is The One.
I have a dream...
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“........... trying to enforce group think”
You know this is really beginning to bother me too, we’re two years out and I’m not ready to throw my support to ANYONE thinking of running in 2012 just yet.
I admire Palin but I don’t want her or Armey, or ANY politician using the Tea Party movement for their own personal agenda.
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