Various (R) individuals (like DeMint) are OK. But there’s nowhere near enough of those. And the party as a whole has been so lame for so long, they have quite a hole to climb out of.
If Sen. DeMint shows up to announce the bill with twelve supporters in tow, he’s exhibiting credible conservative leadership. Show up alone spewing fire and brimstone when the ‘Rats have a 9-seat majority, and he’s standing for re-election in 4 months — stunt. Sorry, I like Jim DeMint, I think he’s a fine conservative, and I wish it were more than a stunt, but reality is reality.
You must have really hated his stunt of singlehandedly saving Honduras from a marxist fate, as Obama and Chavez had planned.
Look, DeMint’s problem is lack of foxhole buddies. There are no citizen representatives, but only career opportunists that you and I have kept in office. We don’t run against entrenched RINO’s, so they stay under a rock while the dems are in power and feel no obligation whatsoever to oppose the loss of our representative government. The republicans are NOT representing us either. We’ve been had, and in many ways, by Bush also. For example, $60 Billion to abortion between 2002-2008, and that’s so against the Hyde Ammendment law.