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Why did Jim DeMint give the NHGOP $100k?
WMUR ^ | 10/20/10 | James Pindell

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 ...


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To: pissant
They, along with Palin, undercut the conservative in the Senate primary as well - who was DeMint’s guy.

They sure did...Kelly Ayotte? Ye gads...I've got to do write-ins on November 2nd.

21 posted on 10/20/2010 6:24:20 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: The Bronze Titan

>> 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.


22 posted on 10/20/2010 6:29:17 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: pissant

Tell them. Oh just shut the heck up.


23 posted on 10/20/2010 6:31:01 PM PDT by dforest
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To: who knows what evil?

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.


24 posted on 10/20/2010 6:33:37 PM PDT by Padams
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To: pissant
Over at worship central, they are busy kneecapping Bachmann on someone’s Bachmann for president thread.

Girlfight to see who get's to be Queen Grizzlie?

25 posted on 10/20/2010 6:38:08 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (is a Jim DeMint Republican. You might say he's a funDeMintalist conservative.)
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To: calcowgirl

Only DeMint, I reckon. But this is a very good sign, my dear.


26 posted on 10/20/2010 6:43:28 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Hawthorn

Harding was a fine president. One of the most conservative in our history.


27 posted on 10/20/2010 7:38:01 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

>> 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.


28 posted on 10/21/2010 6:03:22 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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