Jim Demint Just Touted Ron Paul on Hannity (video added)

[Fermli]

All this "I love his domestic, but don't like his foreign policy' stuff just means all we have to do is overcome the foreign policy stuff.

some people mean it when they say this. Others, like Hannity, are just lying to viewers. If he really agreed with Paul's domestic policy, he would see how drastically different Romney/Gingrich are and he wouldn't believe they would make great presidents.

 

[Bonnieblue]

Senator DeMint, on whom I wrote on another thread, is one of us Southerners under the thrall of the Republican Party because, quite frankly, we were abandoned by the Democratic Party and in that abandonment turned to our enemy, the Republicans.

Southerners, the few of us actually left on that four-hundred-year-old territory known as the South, are loyal to our alliances until the other party breaks them. I believe that DeMint is of this mindset. He is trying to remain loyal to the Republican Party even as he understands that it must be transcended. Also, when our soldiers, and at lot of the empire's combat soldiers are Southerners, are in the field, we do not easily betray them even when we see the evil of the war into which the empire has thrust them. I believe that DeMint is of this mindset. Ron Paul can possibly win in South Carolina and in some other Southern states if he understands and leverages this Southern mindset. How do I know this? Because I am a Southerner and I have gone through this transition. Unlike Senator DeMint, I have emancipated myself totally and completely from the Republican Party and from the empire. I currently serve Dr. Paul because what he has articulated best serves the interest of my people: those good folks who left New Bern, North Carolina, with their households and made the long and dangerous trek across what would become Alabama and Mississippi to Louisiana. We are a people of kith and kin, home and hearth and blood and earth. We have a vested interest in eliminating the usurped power of the general government - the Leviathan, the Hobbesian state. We have a vested interest in a sound currency so that the fruits of our hard work is not stolen from us. We have a vested interest in bringing our sons home so that they never again will have to kill and main the innocent and be killed and maimed themselves so far from home in immoral, unconstitutional and unnecessary wars. This is why I support and serve Dr. Paul in the small way which I can. This spirit lies deep in all real Southerns. If Dr. Paul can tap this spirit, he can win in much of the South.

 

[r3volution]

You guys can drool over this idiot all you want to, but count me out.

nothing too do with the man , only for some of the the fox zombie vote to put us over the top .

 

[AuH20]

Senator DeMint, on whom I wrote on another thread, is one of us Southerners under the thrall of the Republican Party because, quite frankly, we were abandoned by the Democratic Party and in that abandonment turned to our enemy, the Republicans.

Southerners, the few of us actually left on that four-hundred-year-old territory known as the South, are loyal to our alliances until the other party breaks them. I believe that DeMint is of this mindset. He is trying to remain loyal to the Republican Party even as he understands that it must be transcended. Also, when our soldiers, and at lot of the empire's combat soldiers are Southerners, are in the field, we do not easily betray them even when we see the evil of the war into which the empire has thrust them. I believe that DeMint is of this mindset. Ron Paul can possibly win in South Carolina and in some other Southern states if he understands and leverages this Southern mindset. How do I know this? Because I am a Southerner and I have gone through this transition. Unlike Senator DeMint, I have emancipated myself totally and completely from the Republican Party and from the empire. I currently serve Dr. Paul because what he has articulated best serves the interest of my people: those good folks who left New Bern, North Carolina, with their households and made the long and dangerous trek across what would become Alabama and Mississippi to Louisiana. We are a people of kith and kin, home and hearth and blood and earth. We have a vested interest in eliminating the usurped power of the general government - the Leviathan, the Hobbesian state. We have a vested interest in a sound currency so that the fruits of our hard work is not stolen from us. We have a vested interest in bringing our sons home so that they never again will have to kill and main the innocent and be killed and maimed themselves so far from home in immoral, unconstitutional and unnecessary wars. This is why I support and serve Dr. Paul in the small way which I can. This spirit lies deep in all real Southerns. If Dr. Paul can tap this spirit, he can win in much of the South.

Sanford is another Son of the South.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201201110004

MARTHA MACCALLUM: I gotta go, but very quickly, if you can, the last question is can Mitt Romney do better with these groups? He did well with evangelicals and with those who call themselves very conservative in New Hampshire. Can he do the same thing this time around in South Carolina?

SANFORD: I would just say that South Carolina's not that good at taking its cue from other places. And you can look as far back as the Civil War where young cadets were firing cannons there on Fort Sumter. I mean, South Carolina -- South Carolinians are going to decide for themselves. I think he has wrapped up much of the institutional support, but I think -- Huckabee's doing an event here on Saturday, because about fifty percent of the folks out there in this state have not yet decided. So I think it's still a very fluid race.

That quote is so un-PC yet priceless. Pity he destroyed his political career.

 

[jersdream]

If DeMint endorsed Ron, I think Sean, Rush, and Levin would simultaneously sh*t their pants.

 

[jacmicwag]

Looked to me like DeMint was calling out Hannity (in a polite southern way) for trashing Paul.

 

[bluesc]

If DeMint endorsed Ron, I think Sean, Rush, and Levin would simultaneously sh*t their pants.

And then would declare DeMint an enemy of the state.

 

[AuH20]

If DeMint endorsed Ron, I think Sean, Rush, and Levin would simultaneously sh*t their pants.

I think DeMint is in a real pickle because he wants to kick minority leader McConnell to the curb for the 5 last years of senatorial career. So he can't completely burn bridges with Romney in the event, the Stormin Mormon defeats Obama. So he's very partial to Rand and his father, but can't officially endorse him. I will say this. I want McConnell completely stripped of his leadership role and exiled. McConnell already screwed Rand once on a key committee assignment in which he bypassed him for that witch Kelly Ayotte.

 

[virginiakid]

I find it ironic that all the republican speaking heads like Hannity talk about the need for cuts, etc.., but yet they attack the only candidate who has a plan to cut a trillion from the budget. What's also funny is how Hannity keeps trying to deter the conversation away from Ron Paul.

 

[noxnoctum]

More nonsense. I want all the purists to run with their so-called "principles" and they wouldn't even be able to get elected dog-catcher in their local town. Do you the think the neocon backed candidates told the voting electorate that they are going to open up a 40 year campaign in the Middle East that will cost in excess of 10 trillion dollars? No, they just adopted some vague conservative verbiage and smiled. Libertarian purists are still playing checkers, while their hated opponents have mastered 3 dimensional chess.

Ron Paul is a "purist".

There is no good reason to compromise on values. Ron Paul's supporters are a coalition themselves, and that's fine, but if Ron himself decided he to join the "bomb Iran" bandwagon he'd lose my vote instantly. Of course I don't think he ever will, since he's been consistent for a very long time and I think people are slowly coming around.

 

[brushfire]

DeMint on Hannity:

This seemed, to me anyway, to be more of Demint touting Demint, than Demint touting Paul. I think someone's looking for VP "I would be honored to serve with any of them".

 

[Patrick Henry]

Ron Paul is the only conservative and the only libertarian running

 

[AuH20]

Ron Paul is a "purist".

There is no good reason to compromise on values. Ron Paul's supporters are a coalition themselves, and that's fine, but if Ron himself decided he to join the "bomb Iran" bandwagon he'd lose my vote instantly. Of course I don't think he ever will, since he's been consistent for a very long time and I think people are slowly coming around.

I'm not advocating for Ron Paul to declare that he wants "to bomb Iran." Just be smart about what you say and how it's going to be dissected & disseminated by your enemies. Last I checked, none of us own a billion dollar national television network. Take for example, the infamous Gaza concentration camp comment, which immediately draws similarities to the Nazi death camps. That's the one that is pure election gold if I'm the Obama people. I run that around the clock if I'm the election strategist appointed to attack Ron Paul. Rand would never say anything that dumb. In fact, Rand was recently asked about his father's 2009 comments and looked completely perplexed trying to escape the topic completely.

 

[virginiakid]

I think the Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot by not listening to Paul. And even worse, while not exactly the cuts you are looking for, and while it is grandstanding, Republican upset at Obama for wanting to consolidate agencies is going to cost them further. Take the cut and grab more later. A third party is just around the corner in my opinion.

 

[schiffheadbaby]

I think the Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot by not listening to Paul. And even worse, while not exactly the cuts you are looking for, and while it is grandstanding, Republican upset at Obama for wanting to consolidate agencies is going to cost them further. Take the cut and grab more later. A third party is just around the corner in my opinion.

These aholes are adopting the language but never to be trusted.

Mitt now supposedly wants a balanced budget after running huge deficits in Mass and wanting huge welfare/warfare state.

Newt the scammer now is talking tough on the FED, where the hell was he on this issue during the days of Greenspan?

nobody but paul is genuine

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Right before the Iowa caucus I mentioned that to win a Presidential race, first you get your base built and then start building coalitions. You do not win the Oval Office without coalitions. I then asked, "now that our base is built, will we Paulers allow the Ron Paul PCC to start building the coalitions we actually need to win?"

Sadly, from this thread, for too many of us that answer is "no."

20% of the electorate is ours. Most 'bases' are 5-10%. 20% may be the biggest base in history. If we are able to build the coalitions we need to win the Oval Office, nothing can stop us.

If we are going to win, we need to let Ron Paul build those coalitions. Fer criminy's sake in 2008 he built a coalition with Ralph freakin Nader and Cynthia freakin McKinney and people want to headsplode about Jim DeMint? Really?

If you think Ron Paul will compromise on principle for ANY reason, you are delusional. It's time to grow up and let Paul win!

 

[Bonnieblue]

Sanford is another Son of the South.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201201110004



That quote is so un-PC yet priceless. Pity he destroyed his political career.

Yes, he did destroy his career; and worse than that, he destroyed his integrity and likely his family, two things much more important than career; yet, there ought to be room for his opinion and understanding in a party which seems to embraces Newt. I continue to respect Sanford's opinion while abhorring his most intimate infidelity. I do not respect Newt's opinion for reasons other than his marital infidelity.

 

[Bonnieblue]

DeMint on Hannity:

This seemed, to me anyway, to be more of Demint touting Demint, than Demint touting Paul. I think someone's looking for VP "I would be honored to serve with any of them".

Well, there are worse motivations; and one notes, he was, if he was, courting Romney and Paul and not Romney and Gingrich or Romney and Santorum. He is both reading the political winds and contributing to the political wind.

 

[virginiakid]

Right before the Iowa caucus I mentioned that to win a Presidential race, first you get your base built and then start building coalitions. You do not win the Oval Office without coalitions. I then asked, "now that our base is built, will we Paulers allow the Ron Paul PCC to start building the coalitions we actually need to win?"

Sadly, from this thread, for too many of us that answer is "no."

20% of the electorate is ours. Most 'bases' are 5-10%. 20% may be the biggest base in history. If we are able to build the coalitions we need to win the Oval Office, nothing can stop us.

If we are going to win, we need to let Ron Paul build those coalitions. Fer criminy's sake in 2008 he built a coalition with Ralph freakin Nader and Cynthia freakin McKinney and people want to headsplode about Jim DeMint? Really?

If you think Ron Paul will compromise on principle for ANY reason, you are delusional. It's time to grow up and let Paul win!

I agree, coalitions are important, and you can build them without compromising principle. Look at all the Paul supporters. We are extremely diverse, we don't all agree on the same issues, but what we do agree on is liberty and fiscal responsibility. I like Demint pimping us, and the same with the others. It's like the question about whether or not you would vote for a Paul/Romney ticket. You start somewhere, and yes, there would be influence there, but it is a start.

 

[ross11988]

Anyone notice at 4:51 in the video. Look behind Ron Paul. The Police Officer grabs Dana Bash and pulls her away from someone?