[neverdem]

Thunder on the Mountain

The only good thing about the last two election cycles is that the rats knocked off a lot of RINOs. While I prefer conservatives, there are some places in the country that either you have a RINO or a rat.

[DoughtyOne]

RINOs are Rats. They aren’t called RINOs because they vote with us.

[kevkrom]

he's viewed by many as an ideologue willing to purge centrist veterans

I have no problem with that. At all. As long as he stays true to it and doesn't endorse Romney again this time around.

[manic4organic]

A backbencher? Only in the deluded minds of the media. Or maybe wishful thinking.

[throwback]

Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the Senate committee to get Republicans elected, said DeMint may be hurting the party's ability to regain power in Washington. "My goal is simply to build our numbers so we can provide checks and balances to single-party power here in Washington," Cornyn said. "I think he has a different goal, which is to try to move the Republican conference in a more conservative direction. If that were possible and we were able to win elections all around the country I would be all for it, but I think as a pragmatic matter we've got to nominate Republicans who can get elected in their states."

What good will it do to regain control if they just reach across the aisle once they get there. Demint's got the right idea, and the more I hear about him, the more I like him.

[broken_arrow1]

DeMint-Bachmann 2012

[avacado]

"Jim DeMint is becoming something of a tea party hero, even a potential conservative kingmaker, a status that is not making the freshman senator many friends among fellow Republicans the RINOs in Congress."

We Are Coming For You McCain!!!! We Are Coming Fast!!! I can see November from my House!!!

[day21221]

(All of the senior GOP Senators leaders must go).

they have stop the

(Conservative Movement) for years!!!!!

[Rick_Michael]

he ought to run for president.

[capydick]

......but I think as a pragmatic matter we've got to nominate Republicans who can get elected in their states."

Alot of good that has gotten us in the past. Cornyn and the others just want power for power's sake. DeMint wants to do good with it. Cornyn can go to H-E-DoubleHockeySticks.

[FTJM]

In other cases, DeMint's silence has been telling. He pointedly refused to aid once-popular Republican Bob Bennett, a three-term senator who was defeated Saturday by conservative voters in Utah's GOP convention. After Bennett's loss, DeMint immediately endorsed Mike Lee, one of the two Republicans in a runoff.

Smart move.

[matthew fuller]

"If that were possible and we were able to win elections all around the country I would be all for it, but I think as a pragmatic matter we've got to nominate Republicans who can get elected in their states." "

This numbskull RNC leader's (Cornyn) choices are Arlen Specter and Charlie Crist. Maybe this is one of the main problems with the RNC???

[Spok]

The RINO’s have proven themselves amenable to abandoning principle to compromise with the left; as soon as they recognize the advantage of doing the same with the Tea Party, they’ll be on board.

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

"...he's viewed by many as an ideologue willing to purge centrist veterans"

Good for him! HOOAH!!

[TChris]

I believe strongly in meritocracy.

Rewarding simple time in office is a leftist/union institution. It has no legitimate place in conservative leadership.

Promote the most capable and most conservative among us. Length of time in office is a small piece of the puzzle.

[JSDude1]

I HOPE DEMINT RUNS For President!..

[Liz]

SCAM-A-RAMA--GANGSTER GOVERNMENT AT WORK G-20 Euro Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors asked the United States----the IMF’s largest contributor----for a whopping $108 billion to rescue bankers around the world.

Rahm said OKAY just as long as the usual cut was wire-transferred offshore to the usual notorious money laundering havens: Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Russia, India, Israel, Panama, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Cook Islands, Dominica, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Panama, the Philippines, St. Kitts and the Grenadines, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Monaco, Antigua, Tortola, BVI.

So Obama quickly obliged and asked Congress to fold the $108 billion into a war-spending bill, originally crafted to send money to US troops.

Sen Jim DeMint (R-SC) offered an amendment to take it out of the war bill b/c he knew this was an "international version of the domestic TARP" (containing the same billion dollar kickbacks).

But the Democrat Senate voted to keep the IMF bailout in the war-spending bill (thus guaranteeing Democrats that their percentage was intact).

[Gene Eric]

DeMint ping

[wmfights]

His efforts, highly unusual for a freshman, have upset senators on Capitol Hill, where he's viewed by many as an ideologue willing to purge centrist veterans...

Sounds like Gingrich making the Pubs a majority in the House.

[Irish Eyes]

Jim DeMint is becoming something of a tea party hero, even a potential conservative kingmaker, a status that is not making the freshman senator many friends among fellow Republicans in Congress.

One question...is he endorsing JD Hayworth OR John McCain?

[Danae]

RINOS talk one thing and do another.

America does not need this, it is part of the problem. We need people with honor that take the duty seriously. We need people who will do what they say they will. Simple as that.