DeMintism = the new jingoism

One question: Does DeMint include the troops from World War II in this count? After all, those brave servicemen were fighting for an America run by that big-government President Franklin Roosevelt -- and a lot of them even voted for him, too!

Irrelevant. DeMint (and the now mostly-regional Republican party) has drunk deeply of the kool-aid and is neither rational nor in the fact-based universe. By debating him and/or trying to counter his "facts" we legitimize his underlying claim - that Democrats are somehow the enemy.

Our soldiers have given their lives for this country - for the idea of a republic where all have a voice, and where the best path is chosen through reasoned debate and compromise. How dare he invoke their sacrifice for partisan political ends.

The last time our soldiers fought for domestic political ideas DeMint's state, South Carolina, was on the losing end.

You nitwits are just sad. The worst thing Kleefield can think of is to invoke FDR as a talisman against a strawman , and Minnie up there is having assassination fantasies.
I guess the idea of personal responsibility is too much for you two to handle.
Keep up the good work. Tsk.

I could just see DeMent and his crowd during World War II: "Rationing?!!! I'm not going to cut down on driving and using gas! I'll use as much as I want! You can't make me stop! This isn't a communist country!"

All for one, and one for one.

Look, DeMint is a right-wing nut, but the part about dying is just rhetoric, standard political rhetoric. Lots of politicians talk about sacrifices of past Americans.

Debt, taxes, and socialism have been Republican mantras since before I was born (and I'm 67). This statement is nothing to post about, nothing like DeMint's hope that health care would be Obama's "Waterloo," for example.

Jim DeMint unintentionally reveals what he believes our troops have been dying for this decade: the Republican Party. And he's right.