Jim Demint Declines To Endorse Any Of The CLOWNS Running For President In The GOP Primary -- And I Don't Blame Him At All!

S.C. Sen. DeMint won't endorse a GOP primary candidate
By Gina Smith

The most sought-after endorsement in S.C. Republican politics isn’t coming.

U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint says he will not endorse a candidate in the GOP presidential race, leading some to wonder if DeMint, who has played the role of a conservative kingmaker, is noncommittal about his party’s presidential candidates.

“Senator DeMint has announced he won’t be endorsing anyone in the Republican presidential primary,” Wesley Denton, spokesman for the influential Greenville Republican, said Monday. “He will be focused on electing conservatives to the U.S. Senate.”

“I don’t like the suggestion that there’s lots of people out there waiting for me to tell them how to vote (for president),” DeMint told The Washington Post.

DeMint’s decision not to endorse a candidate could make more valuable the endorsements of a younger generation of S.C. Tea Party favorites, including Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican from Lexington, and U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, a North Charleston Republican.

Both, elected last year, have financial ties to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, one of the frontrunners for the GOP nomination. Haley was elected with the help of almost $40,000 in contributions from Romney’s political action committees. Scott received $4,500 from Romney committees.

Haley, who also endorsed Romney is 2008, has said she will endorse a GOP candidate in late December. The S.C. primary is Jan. 21.

Scott is hosting a series of “first in the South” presidential town hall meetings in the Lowcountry where the presidential candidates take questions from South Carolinians. He has said he will decide whether to endorse a candidate when that series wraps up.

DeMint’s decision not to endorse a Republican candidate is a blow to Romney, who DeMint endorsed in 2008. Despite that endorsement, Romney finished a disappointing fourth in that year’s S.C. GOP primary.

Sources close to DeMint said it was unlikely that DeMint, who has risen to national prominence since 2008, would endorse Romney a second time, citing Romney’s moves to the political center.

For example, Romney has expressed concern about global warming, widely ridiculed by the right wing of the GOP, and he criticized his fellow Republican presidential rival Rick Perry for likening Social Security to a Ponzi scheme.

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Editor's comment: I don't blame Jim Demint one bit. What we Republicans have as candidates are a bunch of jokes -- and I'm NOT finding any of all this funny at all!