BREAKING - DeMint To Endorse Romney
Written by Mark Harris on January 8th, 2007Good day for camp Romney as the rumors are swirling all over DC that Sen. Jim DeMint will endorse Mitt Romney tomorrow. This would pit him against moderate Sen. Graham (R-SC) who endorsed McCain. It looks to be increasingly to be a race with Mitt Romney as the conservative vs. John McCain. What say you SaveTheGOP readers?
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I wish I could explain why I feel uneasy about him.
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Romney has been doing everything right and getting every break over the last year with Allen imploding and nobody else developing as a credible challenger to McCain.
The interesting thing in South Carolina is if a Romney guy will challenge Graham in the 2008 primary.
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If Romney is a “conservative” and McCain is a “liberal” than we all must be Left Wing Scum.
I feel like I am stuck at the corner of 1st Ave and 1st Ave in bizzaro world.
With a Democratic Congress, with those being the only two options, I’m gonna have to go with McCain…at least we know he’s crazy. Who knows what we get with Romney?
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What the heck is with Lindsey Graham anyway? This is getting outright comic. I’m not even talking about the McCain thing, I’m talking about… what the heck is with Lindsey Graham?
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Mark, I think you’re falling into the Bush Mafia’s trap when you label Lindsey Graham a moderate, his voting record is nearly identical to DeMint.
Just because the National Review is pissed off that a military judge, with experience on the ground in Afghanistan, like Graham might have something more meaningful to say about military tribunals than the chicken-hawks on Lexington Ave., isn’t a good enough reason for movement conservatives to throw him under the bus.
Graham stood up to the Bush people in 2000, when it really cost people to do that, and now he’s being loyal and sticking with McCain.
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I have not been turned off by Romney yet. He is still on my list of candidates I may support. I am waiting to see who else enters the race still as there is obviously lots of time left, but if I were to choose between the main three right now it would definitely be Mitt.
Everyone has to remember that Romney was the governor of Massachusetts, probably the most left wing state in the country. At this juncture I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as to how he would govern the country as a whole until the campaign really kicks off and we can hear more about his intentions. Was he moderate because he had to be or because that actually was who he is? That is what we need to find out.
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Joesph, what are you referring to?
I thought that Coburn going to the Senate would help to return Graham to his Republican Revolution days but I have been disappointed so far. Demint has been stepping up big time lately though. It seems kinda early to endorse though. Will most other senators endorse soon?