Sen. DeMint: 'I really don't want Ron Paul to drop out'

[dfalken]

The GOP would want you to believe they do, but reality is they don't even come up to Ron Paul's heels. Its them trying to ride Ron Paul's coatails not the other way around. I say screw DeMint, he wants to ride the coatails but at the same time stay in good faith with the GOP....that's a lying politician if I ever saw one.

Would you say that Palin and DeMint have more clout or power int he GOP than Paul?

 

[blabam]

If they keep it up, they will become irrelevant by the end of this campaign.

 

[bobbyw24]

If they keep it up, they will become irrelevant by the end of this campaign.

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[Cyberbrain]

Would you say that Palin and DeMint have more clout or power int he GOP than Paul?

Kind words from these two are great help for the moment for sure, but you know how it goes. They have their agendas that really have nothing in common with ours. I have no desire to get distracted from the real support and endorsements dripping in everyday! (Cavuto looks like he's coming our way )

 

[Aratus]

Sen. Jim DeMint could !hint!hint!hint! at what he wants over the next four days as S.C
goes into a worse rollercoaster ride than Iowa + N.H compounded. i feel he will be most
indirectly handing 1st, 2nd and 3rd out to Mitt + Dr. Ron + Newt as he triggers a 3-way
split that might go the distance to Tampa. Jon Huntsman may end up forth or fifth then.

 

[Carole]

Wonder what the PTB handlers have on Demint that is keeping him in line.

He is retiring isn't he?

Just trying to sell his book.

 

[qh4dotcom]

South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint told The Daily Caller that he doesn’t want Texas Rep. Ron Paul to drop out of the presidential race — at least not quite yet.

“I really don’t want Ron Paul to drop out until whoever our front-runner is is collecting some of the ideas that he’s talking about,” DeMint, who recently predicted Mitt Romney would win the Jan. 21 South Carolina primary, said when TheDC asked if it was time for other GOP presidential contenders to drop out and support the former Massachusetts governor.

“Ron Paul is right on the fact that we’ve got an out of control and unaccountable Federal Reserve that is eventually going to create a major crisis,” said DeMint. “He’s also right in the importance of individual liberty and the whole constitutional limited government. And more of our candidates need to incorporate that.”

So if he thinks individual liberty is important why did he vote for the NDAA and the extensions of the Patriot Act?

 

[Ssd]

DeMint voted for the NDAA. That alone made me lose all of my respect for him as a politician. LOL, I have way more respect for Kucinich and his UFOs.

 

[JohnGalt23g]

Ease up on DeMint. He said months ago he wouldn't endorse anyone before the SC primary, and as far as I know, he has kept his word on that.

This is as good as we are going to get from him, and we should show him some love for it.

 

[Carole]

Just trying to sell his book.

 

[No Free Beer]

This is the same guy that voted for the PATRIOT Act

 

[Drivingrain]

Just another opportunist like Sarah Palin. They just want to put their face on the liberty movement and then attempt to hijack it for their own benefit once the primaries are over without taking any of the risk of doing something like endorsing Paul. I'm not falling for it.

Well said. It's right out of the same playbook as Palin's fairly successful takeover of the Tea Party movement. But the funny thing is the Paulites satyed in the Tea Party movement in an uncomprimising fashion even after the press, unable to support a dem/repub coalition movement, happily facilitated her wrestling it away and making it fit in the traditional R vs D paradigm. Polls in '08 indicated we were 50% of it. We didnt go away; there was a battle within that was barely covered by the media (Matthews covered it once; Napalitano covered it well asking Glenn Beck is he a Palinite or Paulite; he answered Paul).

And so we wont go away this time either. If, ultimately, a strong 25% portion of the Repubs is a Constitutionalist wing and they acknowledge our presence as an entity in the same way evangelicals are...and we continue to grow at the same rate; then we will control the party in 4 or 8 years. Is that a better route than 3rd party? Someone like Ventura who, unlike us in this forum, has held high office...would unquestionably say NO. He's probably right.

 

[wsc321]

Everything I've seen indicates DeMint voted against the NDAA. One of the few. (Look it up for yourself and please correct me if I'm wrong.)

I totally disagree with those criticizing DeMint. If I can't get a deep touchdown pass, I'll take a first down. At this point I appreciate anyone in the House or Senate that will at least treat Dr. Paul with respect. Just that, in and of itself, is a positive given that all the bloodthirsty Rush Limbaugh republicans are so dishonorable they won't even attempt to debate Dr. Paul honestly. They just call him names, malign his positions, and push the NeoCon War Agenda.

I'm thanking God for DeMint, and Palin, and anyone else who treats Dr. Paul with respect and is calling for his campaign to be taken seriously. I loved when DeMint said something like, "I'm very comfortable with having a debate in our party between the Libertarians and the Conservatives... what I don't want is a debate between Liberal and Moderate Republicans" or something like that.

 

[No Free Beer]

Everything I've seen indicates DeMint voted against the NDAA. One of the few. (Look it up for yourself and please correct me if I'm wrong.)

I totally disagree with those criticizing DeMint. If I can't get a deep touchdown pass, I'll take a first down. At this point I appreciate anyone in the House or Senate that will at least treat Dr. Paul with respect. Just that, in and of itself, is a positive given that all the bloodthirsty Rush Limbaugh republicans are so dishonorable they won't even attempt to debate Dr. Paul honestly. They just call him names, malign his positions, and push the NeoCon War Agenda.

I'm thanking God for DeMint, and Palin, and anyone else who treats Dr. Paul with respect and is calling for his campaign to be taken seriously. I loved when DeMint said something like, "I'm very comfortable with having a debate in our party between the Libertarians and the Conservatives... what I don't want is a debate between Liberal and Moderate Republicans" or something like that.

The Daily Paul says he did.
http://www.dailypaul.com/198522/sen...-indefinite-detention-of-us-citizens-no-trial

This site says he didn't.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2011-230

 

[bobbyw24]

Everything I've seen indicates DeMint voted against the NDAA. One of the few. (Look it up for yourself and please correct me if I'm wrong.)

I totally disagree with those criticizing DeMint. If I can't get a deep touchdown pass, I'll take a first down. At this point I appreciate anyone in the House or Senate that will at least treat Dr. Paul with respect. Just that, in and of itself, is a positive given that all the bloodthirsty Rush Limbaugh republicans are so dishonorable they won't even attempt to debate Dr. Paul honestly. They just call him names, malign his positions, and push the NeoCon War Agenda.

I'm thanking God for DeMint, and Palin, and anyone else who treats Dr. Paul with respect and is calling for his campaign to be taken seriously. I loved when DeMint said something like, "I'm very comfortable with having a debate in our party between the Libertarians and the Conservatives... what I don't want is a debate between Liberal and Moderate Republicans" or something like that.

There you go

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

There you go

No, he voted for it. Voted for the PATRIOT Act, too.

I really don't get the defense of DeMint. You don't even have to read between the lines to see that he wants someone other than Ron to win, and have that candidate borrow some of Ron's positions (so they can throw them away as quickly as they adopted them).

 

[No Free Beer]

WSC,

Although I agree with you, it's time for some of these big league players to step up.

I mean, you don't have to agree with everything, but the overall message of liberty and freedom.

I would have no problem with Demint saying that he doesn't full agree with Paul's foreign policy, but what good is our foreign policy if we don't have freedom and liberty here, at home? Something to that extent.

As far as I am concerned, if you don't step up, you are just as bad as the rest.

 

[Tod]

Tweeted:

@JimDeMint I don't know a single Ron Paul supporter that will vote for anyone but Paul. If Paul isn't the nominee, I expect Obama wins.

 

[Drivingrain]

I'm thanking God for DeMint, and Palin, and anyone else who treats Dr. Paul with respect and is calling for his campaign to be taken seriously.

does Palin take us seriously or does she slip into her robe and talk to about us like were children who need to be heard just like the grown-ups do? I think she sees political opportunity in numbers with Ron Paul and very little else. I wouldnt view that as taking the views seriously; could she even articulate the pros and cons of a gold standard? Nope, none of them can. Once they start going there, then we'll have some progress. Until then it's nothing more than another a pacify-us,-then-smother-us strategy.

 

[Rincewind]

Strictly speaking, the other candidates adopting some of Paul's views is better than the other candidates not adopting some of Paul's views.