What a fucking liar!
MARY KISSEL, WALL STREET JOURNAL: Youre seen as one of the backers, one of the intellectual godfathers of the tea party. So whether or not Heritage financially backs these candidates is a separate issue. When you look, though, at how tea party candidates are doing -- take Kansas, Milton Wolf, posting graphic x-rays on his Facebook page. He's trailing [incumbent Senator] Pat Roberts really badly. What are the lessons to learn from 2012, when, you know, you had some tea party winners, but then you have guys like this?
FMR. SEN. JIM DeMINT, HERITAGE: In 2010, it was a ground-up effort. That was good for Republicans. In 2012, they tried to do it from the top-down, a big central campaign without the grassroots. It didn't work. And what's happening around the country, you can't say one candidate is tea party and another one is not because the tea party is not --
KISSEL: Oh, come on, Senator!
DeMINT: They're not an organized --
KISSEL: Milton Wolf, Matt Bevin, Steve Stockman in Texas. Theyre all running under the tea party banner and theyre all trailing by double digits. Why?
DeMINT: Well, a lot of them are running under tea party ideas. I dont know if theyre calling themselves tea party candidates or not.
KISSEL: They are.
DeMINT: They're all called that. I mean, I'm called a tea party Senator and Ive never been a part of a tea party in my life. Ive been to a lot of meetings. It's the ideas that matter. It's the organization that has been vilified of tea parties, just like Republicans, and Democrats in a lot of cases. Congress only has like 10% approval. But America is hungry for ideas that will make our life better and the country stronger, and that's not being presented by politicians.
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