DeMint: GOP Dead If Doesn't Cut Spending

Well, at least ONE GOP Senator gets it. Senator Jim DeMint, who has embraced the Tea Party call for fiscal conservatism and responsible governing, says that the GOP will die if it betrays the American people again.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0910/DeMint_GOP_dead_unless_it_reins_in_spending.html





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Did you catch that?


It's heavy stuff, and the GOP leadership would do well to listen to him.

"I came into the Senate in the majority...55 senators, large majority in the House, Bush in the White House, and Republicans didn't do what we said we were going to do," DeMint said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "We spent too much, we borrowed too much. And frankly, if we get the majority again, even if it's just in the House, and we don't do what we say, I think the Republican Party is dead."

I agree completely. There is a limit to how often a political party can betray the voters... and they've reached it. But DeMint seems to REALLY get it, here.

"The Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying - not just Republicans, independents and Democrats - stop the spending, stop the borrowing, stop the debt, stop the takeovers," the senator said. "This is kind of uniting America."

He seems to understand that this resurgence of support for the GOP doesn't mean we love them. Quite the contrary, we lack confidence that they will actually do what they claim they will. But who else can we turn to? With the Democrats being, as DeMint put it, "to the left of Europe"... Well, we have to turn to SOMEBODY!

We don't love the GOP, they're just the only other game in town right now. But if the GOP betrays the voters again and continues with business as usual... Well, we have the nucleus for a new political party to take the place of the GOP. The Tea Party is bringing together millions of people from all political ideologies, and could easily become the heart of a new political party.

The GOP HAS to realize this. Follow through on your small government promises for once, or be relegated to the ash bin of history.

Well said, Senator DeMint. Well said.