If they're fighting this viciously now, just imagine what it'll be like if we can beat them back this November and hold the House and Senate.
In a fundraising solicitation sent to supporters, DeMint said the Washington establishment had “launched an all-out assault” on him for backing the “principled” Christine O’Donnell, the conservative Republican who shocked moderate Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) but now has imperiled the party’s chances of winning the Delaware Senate seat in the fall.
“They say she can't win and that by supporting her, I've helped lose the seat for Republicans,” DeMint said. “Well, I've been in the majority with Republicans who didn't have principles, and we embarrassed ourselves and lost credibility in front of the country. Frankly, I'm at a point where I'd rather lose fighting for the right cause than win fighting for the wrong cause.”
And he highlighted anonymous comments Republicans have made criticizing him in the press, saying such attacks “are really against you and the thousands of freedom-loving Americans in Delaware who supported Christine.”
“National Republicans are not going to invest real money in this race and her primary opponent, Rep. Mike Castle, is refusing to endorse her,” DeMint wrote to supporters of his political action committee, the Senate Conservatives Fund. “The dirty little secret in Washington is that the establishment is quietly rooting for Christine to lose so they can continue to peddle their discredited line that conservatives cannot win.”
The comments are a striking departure from his calls for unity the day before – as party leaders sought to put their differences behind them to take down the Democratic majority in the fall elections.
Jim DeMint is calling the shots, more and more. And if there's any doubt that he's American Taliban, this should eliminate them:
David Brody: “Are you concerned at all that some of the social conservative issues, abortion and same sex marriage, some of these other issues because they are taking somewhat of a back seat right now at least to the fiscal issues that there are some inherent problems for social conservatives in something like that?”
Senator Jim DeMint: “No actually just the opposite because I really think a lot of the motivation behind these Tea Party crowds is a spiritual component. I think it’s very akin to the Great Awakening before the American Revolution. A lot of our founders believed the American Revolution was won before we ever got into a fight with the British. It was a spiritual renewal.”
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I think people are seeing this massive government growing and they’re realizing that it’s the government that’s hurting us and I think they’re turning back to God in effect is our salvation and government is not our salvation and in fact more and more people see government as the problem and so I think some have been drawn in over the years to a dependency relationship with government and as the Bible says you can’t have two masters and I think as people pull back from that they look more to God. It’s no coincidence that socialist Europe is post-Christian because the bigger the government gets the smaller God gets and vice-versa. The bigger God gets the smaller people want their government because they’re yearning for freedom."