Posted on 10/20/2010 5:48:53 PM PDT by pissant
Conservative South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to eight state Republican committees over the last three months, which begs the question of who he is trying to help: the candidates he endorsed or his own ambitions.
According to his campaign finance report DeMint gave $100,000 to the New Hampshire Republican State Committee in what appears to be an attempt to bolster Ovide Lamontagne, the candidate he backed in the U.S. Senate primary given that he also gave to states where he had a Senate candidate he endorsed.
Yet any time a prominent politician gives that kind of money to a New Hampshire political party it creates questions as to whether or not he is thinking about a run for president.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalscoop.wmur.com ...
They sure did...Kelly Ayotte? Ye gads...I've got to do write-ins on November 2nd.
>> I have no problem with Jim running for anything he wants <<
Senators make terrible presidents — JFK, LBJ, RMN and BHO, not to mention Warren Harding and Andrew Johnson. And McCain would probably have been about as bad. Let DeMint go back to SC and serve as governor for a while. Then he may be OK. But just not yet.
Tell them. Oh just shut the heck up.
I agree. Why NH? Why Iowa? I see the reasoning for a staggered, drawn out primary season but there has to be a better way than the current NH/Iowa set up.
Girlfight to see who get's to be Queen Grizzlie?
Only DeMint, I reckon. But this is a very good sign, my dear.
Harding was a fine president. One of the most conservative in our history.
>> Harding was a fine president <<
You may be the only person in the universe who has that opinion!
>> One of the most conservative in our history <<
You must be confusing him with his V.P. and successor, Calvin Coolidge — who really was an excellent POTUS.
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