EDITOR OF REDSTATE
Jim DeMint is Winning America
Over the
past several weeks, Republican aides in Congress have planted a number of
stories attacking the Heritage Foundation, Heritage Action for America, and the
Senate Conservatives Fund — three groups closely associated with former Senator
Jim DeMint.
DeMint
started the Senate Conservatives Fund. He’s now President of the Heritage
Foundation. Heritage Action for America is an offshoot of Heritage. The reason
Republicans have been attacking Jim DeMint, and with him the men he championed
before leaving the Senate — Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul — is because of
the very well orchestrated “DefundIt” campaign.
Led by
Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, conservatives have rallied to the idea of
defunding Obamacare. According to CNN, Obamacare’s popularity has fallen to
39%. Jim DeMint has gone around the country leading massive town halls to
encourage defunding Obamacare.
Over the
August recess period, the DeMint-Cruz-Lee voice has been the most dominate
voice of the Republican Party in the media. The DeMint-Cruz-Lee voice has been
used for their cause and against their cause. But it has been them the American
people are hearing as the voice and seeing as the face of the Republican Party.
The Republican Party is gaining a public-opinion edge on several
key issues ahead of the 2014 elections, as Americans question President Barack
Obama’s leadership on Syria and worry about the country’s overall direction, a
new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows.
Republicans are now rated higher than Democrats on handling the
economy and foreign policy, and the GOP’s lead has strengthened on several
other issues, including dealing with the federal deficit and ensuring a strong
national defense.
The
public heard John Boehner come out swinging in support of bombing Syria. The
public never heard from Mitch McConnell who had to wait for polling and public
opinion to become clear. But for more than a week, the public has heard clearly
from Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.
On the
economy, it’s been Mike Lee and Ted Cruz. On Obamacare, it’s been Lee, Cruz,
Paul, DeMint, and Congressmen Meadows and Graves of Georgia.
These are
the people who’ve filled the August vacuum — not Boehner, not Cantor, not
McConnell. And what has happened during that time?
The Republican Party is gaining a public-opinion edge on several
key issues ahead of the 2014 elections, as Americans question President Barack
Obama’s leadership on Syria and worry about the country’s overall direction, a
new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows.
Republicans are now rated higher than Democrats on handling the
economy and foreign policy, and the GOP’s lead has strengthened on several
other issues, including dealing with the federal deficit and ensuring a strong
national defense.
Republicans
remain deeply unpopular. With Mitch McConnell and John Boehner in charge, how
could they not? But as Barack Obama’s popularity crumbles, the voices
resonating with the public from the right are the voices who would not be on
the national stage but for Jim DeMint.
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