Meet an American hero. He admits to an addiction for earmarks but has broken the habit . His name is Jim DeMint. He just might be a king maker.

Update: we posted this article, taken from Politico, without any comment. We should point out just how important we believe Senator DeMint is and can be to the conservative movement. Understand that the work of the conservative grassroots movement is as much about the political realignment of the GOP as it is about getting the current Socialist regime out of office . . . . . forever. We are fully aware that the Good Old Party is not about to do an "about face" apart from a political battle. We know this "battleground" as the "primaries." Senator DeMint is about to make his presence known within the grassroots movement and the following is part of the reason why.

Understand that Midknight Review believes the GOP needs a complete "facial." It is our intention that at the end of the coming primary season, the new Party face will include a leadership the likes of Representative Michele Bachmann, Senator Jim DeMint, Representatives Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan, Senator Mitch McConnell -- to name a few of the new center right hero's of the Conservative Revolution. --- jds

We give you Senator Jim DeMint (congressman since 2004):

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Thursday said that the American people are in a “battle” with President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress.

“Three years of the Democrat majority and just one year of President Obama has awakened thousands of Americans to be more passionate advocates for freedom,” DeMint said in remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“Obama’s arrogant power grabs have made Americans stand up and say ‘enough is enough,’” he added. “The battle is between the American people and the Democrats, and I like those odds.”

DeMint said that the federal government is “assaulting almost every sector of our American economy.”

“The danger of losing freedom is no longer theoretical, it’s very real,” he told a cheering crowd, which at one point broke into chants of “DeMint for president.”

“It’s really a fight between those who take their constitutional oath seriously and those who don’t,” he said.

DeMint, the leader of the Senate Conservatives Fund, went on to take a shot at some of his Republican colleagues for urging him to tone down attacks on moderate members.

“I’ve been criticized by some of my Republican colleagues in the Senate for saying I’d rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who believe in freedom than 60 who don’t believe in anything,” he said.

He explained that “the best way” to regain Republican control in Washington is to back “strong conservatives who believe in a strong, limited constitutional government.”

DeMint also attacked Obama as ineffective in his presidency, saying that in 2012 he hopes “Americans will expect more from their president than just a great speech.”

“I think we’ve confirmed that you can’t govern from a teleprompter,” he said. “Just because you’re good on TV doesn’t mean you can sell socialism to freedom-loving Americans.”

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