Those who thought Jim DeMint endorsing Ron Paul is an impossibility...

[angelatc]

Bingo! Demint will want to hang his hat on the sure thing. Doesn't matter if it's Ron or Santorum. Demint's endorsement will be political not principled.

Well, if he does decide to endorse Ron Paul, you've just entirely undermined it with that statement. Congratulations.

Just because DeMints principles are different than yours does not mean he doesn't have, btw.

 

[AuH20]

Well, if he does decide to endorse Ron Paul, you've just entirely undermined it with that statement. Congratulations.

Just because DeMints principles are different than yours does not mean he doesn't have, btw.

Apparently, there can be no principled opposition, unless of course you're Dennis Kucinich or Cynthia McKinney.

 

[LibertyEagle]

We need a tube of this.

CSPAN will likely re-air it. If not, it will be on their website, soon.

 

[Napoleon's Shadow]

CSPAN will likely re-air it. If not, it will be on their website, soon.

The clip of it is here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=600128757

 

[LibertyEagle]

The clip of it is here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=600128757

They are re-airing it right now. Cain has just started his speech.

 

[RileyE104]

Hes not endorsing Ron Paul. He's great and hes open to our ideas, but hes not one of us, and hes not going to endorse Ron Paul.

Why so much negativity on here over something that IS possible.

Things are changing and it's not just ideas. PEOPLE are changing. I know that RIGHT NOW him endorsing Ron Paul is still a longshot, but it's much better than it ever was three years ago, and I believe it will become more realistic as time passes.

 

[Agorism]

I don't know why he thinks this race is about defeating Obama.

Why? So we can replace him with another Bush who will govern as a leftist with empire foreign policy... and work to enrage the dems and get them ginned up so they can take the baton again in a few years after he demolishes the party and loses lots of seats in the midterms. Another narrow win based on Dick morris poll testing some dumb ideas so he can barely win and accomplish nothing but more programs and debt.

I don't think these races are about defeating Democrats when there are so many enemies within the republican party.

 

[FreedomProsperityPeace]

It's early in the campaign, and I've already seen things I never thought I'd see. Anything is possible.

 

[RileyE104]

It's early in the campaign, and I've already seen things I never thought I'd see. Anything is possible.

+rep

 

[LatinsforPaul]

He's going to endorse Bachmann.

He is going to endorse whoever, between Paul and Bachmann, has the best chance of beating Romney for the nomination.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Well, if he does decide to endorse Ron Paul, you've just entirely undermined it with that statement. Congratulations.

Just because DeMints principles are different than yours does not mean he doesn't have, btw.

GOP insiders say DeMint is "principled", and they use it as a put-down. There are not many principled people in politics.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I can.

In fact, I think one of the things that distinguishes a lot of Ron Paul supporters from the typical Republican is that the typical Republican thinks everything was just fine until all of a sudden Obama got elected and undid everything that the 43 fine upstanding presidents who came before him had faithfully guarded, whereas most Ron Paul supporters see the problems with Obama as just another step in the same basic direction the government has been on for a very long time.

That said, your post is encouraging. If Demint endorsed RP, I'd be very happy.

+rep

 

[AuH20]

Arguably, one of the best senators on the hill, along with Rand and Lee:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...op-108-billion-bailout-to-european-countries/

The amendment would prevent the IMF from tapping $108 billion in taxpayer dollars to bail out countries overseas, including the highly leveraged Greece, the senators said in a statement.

The Obama Administration in 2009 sanctioned access by the IMF to additional funding of up to $108 billion, money that can be used to bail out foreign countries, the senators noted.

The new "Anti-IMF Bailout Amendment" would strike language that allows the IMF to use these addition bailout funds.

“Our nation is on the brink of bankruptcy and American taxpayers simply cannot afford to bailout Europe,” Sen. DeMint said in a statement.

The senator pointed to the U.S.'s own debt to GDP ratio, which "is now 95%," noting "that is one of the worst debt to GDP ratings in the world, even higher than Ireland and Portugal. If we don’t our reverse our reckless fiscal course, America will be the one in need of a bailout. We need to stop the spending, stop the debt, and pass a balanced budget amendment.”

 

[rich34]

I wonder if Rand could use some leverage and convince Demint to endorse Ron? Maybe something like Rand promising not to filibuster the raising of the debt ceiling or showing little resistance to some other neocon policy they want past? I know how some may feel, but if it works we gotta do what we gotta do.

 

[cindy25]

its in DeMint's interest to support Paul , as that would leave the nomination open for 2016. Bachmann would surely seek a 2nd term.

 

[scrosnoe]

Be nice to everybody and tell the truth and keep 'em all reaching for our message and our help.

They will all have races to run and need our help.

So press on for truth and liberty holding the banner high so that all who want to repair to it may do so!

 

[Thomas]

if anyone on here is his constituent, i highly suggest you send him some heartfelt snail mail

 

[White Bear Lake]

I really, really like DeMint. I feel is he is genuinely beginning to rethink some of his positions. I was a neocon, too originally. We can be won over. I feel that stressing the financial burden of wars is a good way to convince them. You need to convince them that non-intervention is an actual conservative position and doesn't come hand-in-hand with socialist propaganda and the hippie culture. It worked for me. Once you can get them to stop supporting wars and military intervention habitually on principle, then you can begin to reel them in. I believe Rand is doing a lot of reeling in DC lately; it's most notable with DeMint, Lee, and (Ron) Johnson.

 

[AuH20]

I really, really like DeMint. I feel is he is genuinely beginning to rethink some of his positions. I was a neocon, too originally. We can be won over. I feel that stressing the financial burden of wars is a good way to convince them. You need to convince them that non-intervention is an actual conservative position and doesn't come hand-in-hand with socialist propaganda and the hippie culture. It worked for me. Once you can get them to stop supporting wars and military intervention habitually on principle, then you can begin to reel them in. I believe Rand is doing a lot of reeling in DC lately; it's most notable with DeMint, Lee, and (Ron) Johnson.

There should be a clarification. You were probably a citizen who subscribed to 1 or 2 neoconservative viewpoints, as opposed to being a full-fledged neoconservative on the level of the Kristols. There is a sizable difference. For quite some time, the republican party and consequently it's voters, have been inundated with neoconservative methodology on financial affairs, government budgeting and obviously, foreign policy.

 

[Imperial]

Maybe. It may depend on polls. He may run himself.

But he did have a great line at srlc from twitter accounts:

I don't have the link handy, but he closed the door on a run a few days ago. He had already sounded very against running before that.