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South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Thursday that Mitt Romney is beginning to look like the eventual Republican presidential nominee, and nudged Romney's rivals toward exiting the race.
DeMint, an influential conservative senator, met with Romney today on Capitol Hill; the former Massachusetts was in Washington today to wage a charm offensive with Republicans in Congress.
While DeMint hasn't endorsed a candidate, he gave Romney significant cover with conservatives -- a group with whom Romney has struggled occasionally during the primary season.
That extended to musing that the best thing for the Republican Party might be for Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to consider throwing their support to Romney.
"They can drag it out to the convention if they want," DeMint said of Romney's two main rivals, "but I think if some of them look at where they are, the best thing they could do was maybe look at kind of throwing their support behind the one who might be our nominee. Its beginning to look like Romney."
DeMint said he talks to Santorum over the phone, and emails Gingrich occasionally. Those two candidates have argued Romney isn't conservative enough to deserve the nomination, but DeMint, who endorsed Romney for president during the 2008 primary, said he never doubted Romney's credentials.
"I never really questioned his conservative credentials," DeMint said.
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No sh!t Sherlock!
Did Mr. Demint figure that out all by himself or did someone have to S-P-E-L-L it out for him?
Anyone know where all those 'powerful' tea baggers went? lol
Mitt will be the nominee, but Ricky and Newt are both very, very angry, and their super pacs are propping them both up. It looks like super pacs aren't working out like the GOP thought they would.
Back to the Insane Asylum? How about back under the rock they crawled out from under? Maybe Jonestown for a refill? Hell where ever they went I hope they say there.
The good news: De Mint is not running for reelection for the Senate. Now they can believe that there is actually a GOD in South Carolina.
If they have any brain left -which I doubt- they will elect a Democrat...Of course they wont! Sorry redneck State
What a pest!
The power teabaggers are under the bridge with the other trolls waiting to pounce on the next billy goat to cross the bridge.
When I read that quote I flashed back to the scene in American President when the Richard Dreyfus character chuckles "it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas".
I sort of see Santorum's point---if the Republicans can't run against the economy because it is getting better, all they can run on is against health care and Mitt is the architect of the ACA.
Obama/Biden 2012
The only sane choice.
Not so fast DeMint I think Santorum just nominated Obama as a better choice than Mitt.
Santorum will not go quietly, his ego is too big for that.
Forrest,
Did you hear about this young man shot by a neighborhood watch guy? Its so sad, they just reported that the family was looking for their son for three days before they found out he was dead, and at the morgue, untagged.
I know its off topic, but dam, how does this happen?
So, the DeMinted one, of Waterloo infamy, supports Etch....
Guess he also likes RomneyCare.
@ thetotas
The City Manager just held a news conference and the Police Chief Lee has agreed to step down temporarily to avoid the distractions.
It is extremely sad, and will likely get worse until many people in this nation realize we all have much more in common and have a responsibility to look after each other rather than always focus on our more selfish and divisive nature. People complain about a nanny state but incidents like this make the case that as a society we need more supervision not less.
Yes F,G it's fun to watch the GNOP campaigning for President Obama.
Obama/Biden 2012
Well it happens when a neighborhood watch captain doesn't follow the direction of the 911 operator and takes the law into his own hands.
He needs to be fired and the clown who shot the kid needs to be arrested.
Devie, It's hard to believe that both of those things didn't happen days ago. This is worse than the Rodney King incident.
Sanatorium has a green light to go ahead and bitch all that he wants about Mitt Romney...Losers!
Absolutely, Devie....unfortunately the wimp City Manager Bonaparte, who could fire him, did not do so. I guess they struck a deal and let Lee decide his own fate.
Hopefully the feds will get to the bottom of what appears to be a complete cover-up by the local police....Zimmerman certainly needs to be thoroughly investigated/jailed!
Exactly! Along with a few others.
What happened to Treyvon is WRONG on so many levels!
The only thing worse is the bungled so-called investigation by the Keystone Cops & their attempt at a cover up!
Why the f*ck did they write a SECOND police report? There are far too many unanswered questions!
We want JUSTICE for Treyvon NOW!
What was he doing carrying a gun? Wouldn't that have been enough to arrest him? It doesn't add up.
Because he's a wannbe and an a$$ clown!
Just like in so many states (Texas included), you're allowed to 'pack heat' in Florida.
FL has a law on the books called "Stand your Ground' which essentially allows the Barney Fife's like Zimmerman to go out and hunt people.
As long as you make it look like self-defense (thus the reason for the second police report).
A jeb Bush law by the way!
Another" old koot " from SC . I wonder who Boss Hog is gona vote for ?
The real Boss Hog is a yellow dog Democrat, he will vote for Obama, in exchange for millions in federal grants.
Funny coming from DeMint...seems his great state is upside down on the whole "dollars received" from the federal government to "dollars provided" to the federal government in the form of taxes.
Should Romney become president, DeMint is gonna have to do a whole lot of kneeling and bobbing to fund his state, unless...unless...unless he significantly raises taxes.
But hey, beggars cant be choosers, right bOb?
Welcome to Waterloo DeMint, you puke of a representative of the USA.
Tbaggers sold out!!! to Etch A Mitt!!!!!!
Mittinitch is going to get trounced.
Obama/Biden 2012
Let's see, when did the Republican establishment candidate fail to win? In the GOP, it's always "the next in line." The power barons give the money and the props to the next in line. The teabaggers just didn't want to go along. And the power barons are aghast at what their race baiting antigovernment rhetoric has uncovered under the rocks. Now, they just want the worms to vote for their corporate guy. But it is so hard to corral these worms and maggots. They want to kill abortionists and shoot the aliens, but they don't like the bankers too much. It's a conundrum.
The GOP is self-destructing before our very eyes. What has the once-mighty Republican Party come to when a wannabe candidate will sabotage an entire election in a pathetic last ditch attempt to steal it from another incompetent GOP loser?
Using the tactics of the Republican Party, Rick is threatening to burn down the house if he cannot win the nomination. It is much like what the GOP is doing in congress; in its selfish efforts to undermine the President: they will drag down the government to the detriment of the American people in its shameless single-minded obsession to make President Obama a one-term president. That strategy is not working for the GOP and it isn't going to work for Santorum, either. It is just making them all look like hateful losers.
President Obama in November! The Republican Party is collapsing in on itself!
DeMint and Romney are two peas in a pod. They're both compulsive liars.
Wow! DeMint is an old time Southern politician. Wonder how much that cost Romney?
But, that endorsement is the equivalent to the "fat lady singing." I'd say it's pretty much over. The "establishment" is beginning to realize what I noted in post #392...Romney has to be seen as the "presumptive nominee" PRIOR to the late August Republican Convention, to give him the time to move back toward the center to capture the Independent vote, necessary for a win in the general election.
DeMint is basically saying: "We've given y'all a shot at this...fair and square...now it's time to stop chaw'n on the front porch and come to the table for the blessing."