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Sen. Jim DeMint is funding a new attack ad that takes aim at Sen. Lisa Murkowski's stance on abortion. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is funding a new attack ad that takes aim at Sen. Lisa Murkowski's (R-Alaska) stance on abortion.DeMint has been one of Murkowski's most outspoken critics since she announced her decision to run as a write-in candidate after losing the GOP primary to Tea Party favorite Joe Miller.She now faces Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in November's general election with polls showing solid support for Murkowski's write-in effort.  "There are three Senate candidates, but only one choice...

“Unfortunately, we can’t trust what he says anymore, and I don’t think that the American people are going to begin to trust him more and more as we get towards the elections, even if the economy improves,” says the usually very gentlemanly South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint...

When Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina decided to endorse Pat Toomey’s GOP primary challenge to Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania last year, plenty of Republicans seemed eager to denounce him for shrinking the party. “Some conservatives would rather lose than be seen as compromising on what they regard as inviolable principles,” grumbled Texas senator John Cornyn, who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine contributed an op-ed to the New York Times. GOP moderates, she warned, “often get the distinct feeling that [they’re] no longer welcome in the tribe.” Even DeMint’s fellow travelers at the...

While Sen. Jim DeMint’s internecine warfare may rub his fellow Republicans the wrong way, it appears there is little, if anything, they can do to reign him in. No Senate Republicans would discuss the issue on the record, and the few that would talk explained that most in the party think the best course of action is to ignore the irascible South Carolinian, at least for now. “Jim DeMint isn’t the most effective legislator, so he has to gain power by driving headlines. His Achilles’ heel is everyone saying, ‘no comment,’” a Republican said. Part of the problem, Republicans said,...

Not earth shattering, but entertaining nevertheless. In an interview with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC Alvin Greene responded to almost every question with, “Jim Demint started the recession, Jim Demint started the recession…” The whole interview is incredibly strange and a little painful to watch, yet for some reason I just couldn’t turn it off. And even more painful was to hear O’Donnell close by saying, “Alvin Greene, still better than Jim Demint.” Question…how low do your ratings have to be before you are no longer considered a television channel? VIDEO

Via I Own the World. The good news? “America’s candidate” has mastered the fine art of message discipline. The bad news? It’s rendered him incapable of normal human interaction. The mitigating news? That was never his strong suit in the first place.Lawrence O’Donnell says near the end that he’d still support him over DeMint. That, not “Lean Forward,” should be MSNBC’s new slogan.

Gay groups and women's group are calling on Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to apologize for comments he made Friday about who should and shouldn't be in classrooms. At a 2004 debate, DeMint declared that openly gay people should not be teaching public school. "We need the folks that are teaching in schools to represent our values," he said. DeMint later added that he "would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman, who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend, should be hired to teach my third grade children." At the time, the Senate candidate apologized: "[S]ometimes...

The Fired CongressIn December, more than a dozen senators will come back to Washington and decide how much more tax money to take from Americans, without being accountable to any of them. Some companies have a policy that once someone is fired, they aren’t allowed back on the premises out of fear they might do further damage to the company. It’s too bad Congress doesn’t have the same policy. Because before they’re replaced in January, all of the Democrats who are put out of a job in November will be able to come back and rob the nation blind. More...

DeMint recently denounced the mandate in the Senate bill as follows: Not only is an individual mandate unconstitutional, but it will increase premiums for hard-working Americans — further making insurance coverage unaffordable — and will force more people onto government-run programs. But during the presidential primaries, DeMint endorsed the health care plan Romney developed as Governor of Massachusetts, calling it “innovative” and claiming he supported Romney because he “believes all Americans should have a health plan that they can afford, own and keep.” __________________________________

Steve Pearlstein, the Post business columnist, launches an attack on Jim DeMint in today's paper, asking, "Can business afford Jim DeMint?" The crux of Pearlstein's argument is that if Republicans are elected they will produce gridlock on Capitol Hill and stop the Obama administration from imposing its big-government agenda. Writes Pearlstein: The good news, of course, is that you won't have to spend a minute over the next two years worrying about tax increases or climate-change legislation or that odious card check idea that would open the doors again to union organizing. The bad news is that you can kiss...

In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, Sen. Jim DeMint says he has no interest in becoming the next Senate Majority Leader and doesn't want to run for president. Instead he tells CBN News that the Tea Party movement is the "tip of an iceberg of a great American awakening." He also talks about what he would say to Mike Castle if he ran into him and whether he could beat Sen. Mitch McConnell in an arm wrestling match. Watch below. Some partial transcriptions provided as well. On supposedly causing a GOP civil war:

<p>Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., puts the future of the Republican Party in harsh terms in an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union With Candy Crowley.” And DeMint is talking about the GOP’s future, even if the Republicans do well in the midterm elections.</p>

No sense in letting Rove take all the abuse today among traitorous Beltway RINOs who’ve allegedly never done a thing for “true conservative.” Let’s get Krauthammer into the game. This is actually a useful follow-up to the last post insofar as it’s yet another opportunity to show how Palin implicitly (and wisely) questions the dogma that right-wing candidates can win anywhere, any time, in any circumstances. Krauthammer dares her to go to Delaware to spearhead the O’Donnell campaign. Doubtless many Sarahcuda fans will say “great idea!” but Palin herself knows better: Palin’s comments came after the last major primary night...

Here is an interview GOP Sen. Jim DeMint did with Greta Van Susteren last night, where he said, “We are going to have an earthquake election in November." DeMint said some of the attacks on Christine O’Donnell are “ridiculous.” What matters is “what is she going to do when she gets to Washington.” “I don’t think Americans are stupid. People in Delaware are not stupid. They know our country is on the edge of a disaster. They know if they go with a Democrat in this race, he’s going to support ObamaCare; he’s going to support the Pelosi/Reid agenda. The...

It has begun. Republican Senate aides who desperately want the majority back so they can add an extra zero to their eventual K-Street salary package once they stop prostituting themselves to lobbyists and instead become lobbyists prostituting themselves to squishy Republicans are attacking Jim DeMint. In addition to their own self-interest, you can be sure they are expressing their bosses’ frustrations.Now, you and I both know that Jim DeMint swooping in at the last minute to endorse Christine O’Donnell had as much to do with her victory as a butterfly flapping its wings in China 340 years ago last Monday....

GOP Sen. Jim DeMint said his party is on track to become stronger ideologically with O'Donnell's win over Castle.  Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who endorsed Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell in Delaware's Republican Senate primary, said he's content with the GOP staying in the minority if the party doesn't stand for any principles.  DeMint's party argued before O'Donnell's victory that she could not win a general election in Delwarare, and polls suggest Democrat candidate Chris Coons will defeat O'Donnell in November.  But DeMint, the leader of the Senate Conservatives Fund, said the GOP was on track to being a stronger...

Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) is now one of the most powerful forces in the Republican party, whether his colleagues in the Senate Republican leadership like it or not. And based on quotes like this, I’m going to guess the answer is “not.” To ABC’s Jonathan Karl: I asked Senator DeMint if he’ll have any regrets if come November 3rd he realizes Republicans blew their chance at winning a majority because some of the candidates he supported lost.“No. I’ve been in the majority with Republicans who didn’t have principles and we embarrassed ourselves and lost credibility in front of the...

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I wondered yesterday whether Palin’s endorsement would pave the way for other prominent righties to weigh in. Here’s the answer, just across on Twitter: I’m proud to endorse Christine O’Donnell for US Senate in Delaware. She will stand strong for the principles of freedom. Did he hold off because he wasn’t convinced until today that O’Donnell can win, or was he under pressure from grassroots conservatives to jump in because Palin had taken a stand? Either way, DeMint has made his feelings about races like this crystal clear in the past. If O’Donnell wins the general election, great; one more...

Mark Levin just broke on his show that Jim Demint has endorse Christine O'Donnell......some on FR love Demint but hate O'Donnell, dislike Palin....Is Demint wrong? He's right on the mark