{"id":7770,"date":"2010-11-15T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2010-11-15T12:38:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:38:37","slug":"demint-positioning-himself-as-a-conservative-kingmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7770\/demint-positioning-himself-as-a-conservative-kingmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMint Positioning Himself as a Conservative Kingmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may be no politician more adept at turning Tea Party popularity into actionable results than Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC).\u00a0 Yesterday, the conservative icon took the unusual step of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/-200532-1.html?ET=rollcall:e9197:80108870a:&amp;st=email&amp;pos=epol\" target=\"_blank\">publicly withdrawing his support<\/a> of his party\u2019s fundraising head, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.\u00a0 There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whorunsgov.com\/Profiles\/Michael_Steele\" target=\"_blank\">good reasons<\/a> to do so, but by publicizing his displeasure DeMint is serving notice on the rest of the GOP that he is ready to push for a more robust conservative presence throughout the party\u2019s apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>With his Senate Conservatives Fund DeMint went head-to-head and beat several GOP primary candidates supported by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, led by fellow Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).\u00a0 With freshman senators like Florida\u2019s Marco Rubio, Kentucky\u2019s Rand Paul, and Utah\u2019s Mike Lee owing much to DeMint\u2019s patronage, expect to see the junior senator from South Carolina take on a much bigger role in deciding his party\u2019s next presidential nominee.\u00a0 If DeMint manages to replace Steele with a RNC Chairman of his choosing, he will be better positioned than any conservative in the party to make a serious run for the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Roll Call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be no politician more adept at turning Tea Party popularity into actionable results than Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC).\u00a0 Yesterday, the conservative icon took the unusual step of publicly withdrawing his support of his party\u2019s fundraising head, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.\u00a0 There are good reasons to do so, but by publicizing his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,928,271,352,58,1860,669,57,38],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-conservative","tag-jim-demint","tag-marco-rubio","tag-michael-steele","tag-mike-lee","tag-rand-paul","tag-rnc","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7773,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions\/7773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}