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No Guts,No Glory-DeMint:Why 'cooperate ..compromise' when '..other team -are there to beat you'
Daily Caller ^ | 2-1-12 | Caroline May

Posted on 02/01/2012 2:22:07 PM PST by STARWISE

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No Guts, No Glory DeMint: Why 'cooperate and compromise' when 'the other team ... are there to beat you'

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South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint is just saying “no” to compromise with liberals.

“I can guarantee you the [Super Bowl] coaches are not telling their players to go out on the field and cooperate and compromise with the other team,” DeMint said at The Heritage Foundation’s Blogger’s Briefing Tuesday, during a discussion about his new book “Now or Never.”

“There is a reason for that, the other team has an opposite goal, they are there to beat you,” he said.

According to the Senate’s most conservative member — as measured by the National Journal — an atmosphere of competition over compromise is as poignant in the nation’s capitol as it has ever been. Compromise, to DeMint, is simply unrealistic.

In the South Carolina senator’s Super Bowl analogy of Washington, the two teams are divided along ideological, yet incompatible lines.

“One team believes in centralized economic and political power, collective planning, concentration here in Washington,” DeMint explained. “The other team — while it has been maybe erratic in supporting those principles we believe in — believes in the decentralized, individualistic approach to America. It is very difficult to compromise with another team that does not have the same goal of limited government, individual liberty.”

DeMint pointed out that the general trend has been toward more centralization of power, especially in the past few years, with economic stimulus legislation, Dodd-Frank financial regulations and health care reform. (RELATED: Full coverage of Jim DeMint)

“What has happened in the last few decades is more and more concentration of power in Washington,” he said, describing the trend as running contrary to the founding fathers’ intentions.

This November, DeMint said, will be a “make or break” time for deciding the country’s direction.

“The country does not belong to politicians, it belongs to the people,” he said. “If they want to keep their freedom, if they want to keep American exceptionalism, it really depends on the people having a major intervention with Washington this November and I think it’s a make or break time,” he said.

“I don’t think we can take four more years of what we are doing right now and expect this country to be anything like we want it to be in the future,” DeMint added.

DeMint said there is time to steer the country toward a different direction, and said a long presidential primary wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing if it preps candidates for the general election.

According to DeMint, all the GOP presidential primary candidates have improved over the course of the campaign.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biggovt; demint; nocompromise; obama
JUST SAY NO!
1 posted on 02/01/2012 2:22:16 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

Thank you Senator. Finally someone gets it.


2 posted on 02/01/2012 2:23:24 PM PST by hometoroost (Frodo lives!)
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To: onyx; penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; SE Mom; Liz; rodguy911; Fred Nerks; Red Steel; ...

..there seems to be ONE reliable conservative .. DeMint!


3 posted on 02/01/2012 2:24:26 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE; All



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4 posted on 02/01/2012 2:27:16 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: STARWISE
I think that's somewhere in Genesis...

In the beginning there was right and wrong....and we've been compromising in the “wrong” direction ever since.

5 posted on 02/01/2012 2:28:36 PM PST by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: hometoroost

Thank God for him .. a lonely flock in DC.
God bless and protect him and inspire
his brethren with spine and COURAGE now!


6 posted on 02/01/2012 2:29:59 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

I like DeMint. I was hoping that he would throw his hat into the ring this time around. Maybe next time.


7 posted on 02/01/2012 2:31:43 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

I know ... kinda strange, in a way.
He should be having a much more
prominent role this election season.


8 posted on 02/01/2012 2:50:51 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

I was surprised. This seemed like the perfect time for him, but I guess not.


9 posted on 02/01/2012 3:02:40 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: STARWISE

I have always liked DeMint! We really need more like him to vote for and to throw out the RINO’s.

Lord hear our prayers.


10 posted on 02/01/2012 3:43:49 PM PST by ConfidentConservative (If my people shall humble themselves and pray,I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.)
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11 posted on 02/01/2012 4:09:25 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Somebody tell me why he isn’t the Senate President?


12 posted on 02/01/2012 5:28:40 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: cradle of freedom

because he’s not the vice president of the United States


13 posted on 02/01/2012 8:49:40 PM PST by Theodore R. (I'll still vote for Santorum in the unlikely event he is still on the April 3 ballot.)
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To: STARWISE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks STARWISE.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/2841332/posts


14 posted on 02/01/2012 8:54:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: STARWISE; wmfights
DeMint doesn't even have the courage to endorse a conservative in his own party.

I'm not convinced he is all that.

Moreover, any conservative who comes out with support for Romney, for unity, blah blah blah, at the convention is suspect with me.

And anyone who ever says or indicates publicly that Romney is a conservative is a liar and is thereafter branded.

15 posted on 02/02/2012 5:28:11 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: xzins

DeMint endorsed Romney last time around...I imagine he’s trying to forget that, and hoping everybody else will.


16 posted on 02/02/2012 11:33:09 AM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: STARWISE
..there seems to be ONE reliable conservative .. DeMint!

LOL

17 posted on 03/22/2012 10:45:46 PM PDT by SubGeniusX (Rule #34...No Exceptions.)
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To: SubGeniusX; onyx

Yeah .. I see I have some words to eat ..
Jeeze ....!!
Is there NO ONE LEFT???!!


18 posted on 03/22/2012 11:51:02 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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