Moonbat Matthews: The fact that Sen. Demint 'has a mind is news'

Showing how low MSPDS can go
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The clowns at MSPDS demonstrate on a daily basis why the leftist cable network's ratings are down in the sewer along with its program hosts. A prime example is provided in the following clip, in which "Hardball" host Chris Matthews can't just disagree with Sen. Jim Demint about Sarah Palin, but has to engage in an ad hominem attack on the intelligence of a sitting U.S. Senator who has an undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee, an MBA from Clemson University and years of experience as a marketing research professional:

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As is so often the case with elitist liberals, Matthews didn't listen to what Demint said. The Senator did not say that Gov. Palin has done more for the GOP than Ronald Reagan; he said that she has done more for the party since Reagan. But leftists aren't exactly known for being attentive listeners. They are too busy trying to think of something snarky to say as a putdown than to pay attention, and more often than not, they beclown themselves with their catty responses.

h/t: TheRightScoop

- JP

Jim DeMint: Joe Miller Needs Our Help

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Via the Senate Conservatives Fund website:

Dear Fellow Conservative:

Joe Miller, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alaska, needs our help. He's in the race of his life against Senator Lisa Murkowski who ran as a independent write-in candidate after losing the Republican primary.

With the race still too close to call, there are still tens of thousands of ballots that haven't been counted and there will be a recount to verify the integrity of the write-in ballots.

Joe Miller can win this race but he's up against a well-financed legal team that is working for Lisa Murkowski. They will be fighting to bend the law in Alaska, which requires write-in ballots to accurately state the candidate's name.

Joe Miller needs our immediate help.

The costs associated with maintaining the integrity of this election could be very high, especially if the legal battles go on for a while. Joe does not have the support of the special interests in Washington and he cannot rely on national Republicans to do everything that's needed to defend him.

Joe Miller needs the help of freedom-loving Americans who recognize the importance of winning this race. Joe Miller will stand up to the big spenders in both political parties and help stop the massive spending, bailouts, and debt that threaten our future.

Please make a contribution to the Joe Miller Recount Fund today.

This is a separate committee that has separate contribution limits. Individuals may contribute up to $2,400 to the Joe Miller Recount Fund even if they made contributions to his campaign before November 2nd.

Thank you for everything you have done to support the principles of freedom. Thank you in advance for supporting Joe Miller in this critical battle.

Sincerely,


Jim DeMint
United States Senator
Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund

Donations can be made here.

- JP

Quote of the Day (November 3, 2010)

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Sen. Jim DeMint via CBS News:

"Sarah Palin's done a lot of good for the country. She's gone out front and taken a lot of the slings and arrows from the critics. When women or minorities get involved in politics as conservatives, they take a lot of hits from the press. And she's done a lot of good for the Republican Party, and for our country."

- JP

Politico: DeMint admonishes GOP colleagues for protecting Murkowski

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Politco reports that Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) has publicly dressed down his fellow Republican Senators for not stripping Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski of her ranking committee membership after she announced a write-in campaign to try to hang on to her seat:

In a revealing e-mail to his supporters, DeMint gives his account of Wednesday’s private Senate GOP caucus meeting, when he believed his colleagues would vote to strip Murkowski of her post on the Energy and National Resources Committee — but the caucus instead allowed her to keep her remain in the coveted role.

“It was bad enough to watch my colleagues work to support her in the primary after she had built a record of betraying conservatives principles,” writes DeMint. “But watching them back her after she left the party and launched a campaign against the Republican nominee was more than I could bear.”

Murkowski, who unexpectedly lost the GOP primary last month to attorney Joe Miller, announced last week that she was staying in the race as a write-in candidate — a move that angered Senate Republicans, who support Miller as the new GOP nominee. Murkowski resigned her position as Senate Republican Conference vice-chair, but several of her colleagues, including DeMint, insisted she should also lose her ranking committee membership.

DeMint revealed some details from the closed-door Senate Republican caucus meeting Wednesday.

“One senator after another stood up to argue in favor of protecting her place on the committee — a position she will no doubt use in her campaign against Joe Miller, the conservative Republican nominee,” writes DeMint.

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The Senate GOP caucus’s decision was a major boost to Murkowski, whose seniority on the committee is a major selling point for her campaign.

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Miller said that he had been promised by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that Murkowski would lose her ranking position on the committee even if she won her write-in bid, but, like so many other McConnell promises, it was worthless.

- JP

The Palin - DeMint Conspiracy

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Both Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) have endorsed a number of conservative candidates throughout the recently-concluded primary season, but the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate said Wednesday that there is no rivalry between the two:

Asked about talk that she and the Senator are building competing conservative power structures during an interview with Fox News this week, Sarah Palin dismissed such speculation and offered high praise for DeMint:

“Jim DeMint is brilliant, and I have a great respect for him, and I am not in this for any kind of personal gain or power grab, at all,” Palin said. “I don't even know how to play those type of games, and I don't have the people, the machines, the whatever-it-takes to be in a position like that.

“I am thankful that Jim DeMint is so bold and courageous that he is getting out there and making these endorsements, too,” Palin added. “No competition there, at all.”

The beltway rumor machine seems to be working overtime, what with the media types trying to brew up a pot of manufactured conflict. We think it would be worth a few grins to print up a bunch of these...


... and spread 'em around DC. Then sit back and watch the media magpies go nuts trying to uncover the "vast right wing conspiracy" that surely must be at work.

- JP

DeMint wades into the political waters of Delaware and New Hampshire

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At The Fix, Chris Cillizza notes that, even more so than Sarah Palin, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) continues to thumb his nose at the GOP establishment. DeMint has echoed Gov. Palin's endorsement of an outsider candidate in Delaware, but in New Hampshire, where Alaska's first woman governor is backing the more mainstream candidate, DeMint is supporting her opponent:

On Friday night, DeMint tweeted his endorsement of Ovide Lamontagne in New Hampshire and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware; the party apparatus prefers former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte in the Granite State and Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware.

"He knows they're underdogs but they've surged in the past week and are now within striking distance," said Matt Hoskins, a spokesman for DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund. "He wants to make sure voters know they have a conservative choice if they're unhappy with the establishment candidate."

DeMint met both O'Donnell and Lamontagne roughly a year ago, said Hoskins. The South Carolina Senator told both candidates that they needed to show more viability before he endorsed.

Obviously, Gov. Palin's endorsement of O'Donnell gave that candidate the visibility DeMint considered necessary to warrant his own stamp of approval. But the Senator and the former vice presidential candidate -- two of the unofficial leaders of the tea party movement -- are on opposite sides in New Hampshire, where Gov. Palin has not only endorsed but also recorded a robo-call in support of Ayotte.

The New Hampshire and Delaware Senate primaries are tomorrow. PPP polls show Ayotte holding on in New Hampshire with a 37 to 30 lead over Lamontagne, while in Delaware, O’Donnell has surged to a 3-point advantage over "progressive" Republican Mike Castle, 47-44.

Related: Jim Geraghty has been one of the good guys, which is why we're at a loss to explain why he has been acting like such a shill for Mike Castle. At Red Meat Conservative, Daniel makes the case why Jim is just wrong on this race. There is a litmus test: any candidate who gets an "F" from the NRA either does not know the Constitution or doesn't acknowledge its supremacy for governing this republic.

- JP

Sen. Jim DeMint: Palin will really help the GOP

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) in an interview with U.S. News, commented on Sarah Palin's future in the Republic Party. Bypass the gross misrepresentation by Washington Whispers left-biased Paul Bedard, and go right to the money quote:

"I think she'll be an outspoken spokesperson for the principles of freedom and conservatism, and I think she will really help the Republican Party, just like Newt Gingrich. I don't know if Sarah Palin will be running for office again or not. "The landscape's going to be totally different."

- JP