Although I am disappointed DeMint left the Senate...I believe his reasons to do so are genuine
This should send a message to all Conservatives: If you are not considering Third Party Conservative by now...you will be voting liberal later
I think DeMint just got tired of the Liberal PhonyCon RINOs in the GOP
I think you are right. There is so much corruption and caving in Washington right now - I believe it would be difficult to even go to work on a daily basis. Just look at the things a true conservative has to deal with - Harry Reid for one - and the Rs not having a Senate majority.
I wish him well and I guess like everyone else - there comes a time when enough is enough and hopefully, he can make more influential changes outside of Washington.
This has the stink of a typical Karl Rove "get him out of there, whatever it takes" move.
"Turd Blossom" Rove did this with the very effective Ralph Reed before the 2000 campaign, going to megacrook Ken Lay of Enron and getting "Kenny Boy" to offer Reed a very phat contract as a political fixer for a troubled power project Lay was pushing in the Southeast. Reed may have thought that he'd be able to politick in the interstices of his new job, but Lay's brief was actually to keep Reed away from politics while Rove led candidate Bush to, e.g., political dinners with the Log Cabin Republicans (I can hear it now: "Are you stupid? Those faggots have more money than God! They're at the table and they're determined to play! You either go with them or you get run over!").
So this is Ralph Reed Takeout II, same play, different day.
The RiNO/RNC/Yacht Club purge of conservatives rolls on through the congressional GOP, and it's ever more apparent that it's Karl Rove's fingerprints on the knife.