Is Jim DeMint Among the Chosen?

[Joanne98]

By Baynard Woods

Jim DeMint believes in the sanctity of the family. He lives in Christ. South Carolinians would be surprised to learn that DeMint may not mean the same thing they mean by these words.

The Fellowship Foundation, an influential religious group, held the National Prayer Breakfast last week. The Foundation is also called the Family. Governor Mark Sanford brought a lot of attention to the secretive group when his scandal broke.

The Foundation’s spiritual leaders, Doug Coe and his son David (who is not, unfortunately, David Alan Coe) knew of Sanford’s affairs. They helped him. Jeff Sharlet lived with the group and wrote a spectacular book “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power” about them.
According to Sharlet, David Coe guided John Ensign, the Republican Senator from Nevada who screwed an advisor’s wife and then paid him off for it, through the entire process. Sharlet was at the house when the younger Coe asked one of their members, “Let’s say I hear you raped three little girls. What would I think of you?”

According to Sharlet “the man guessed that Coe would probably think that he was a monster. ‘No,’ answered Coe, ‘I wouldn’t.’ Why? Because, as a member of the Family, he’s among what Family leaders refer to as the ‘new chosen.’ If you’re chosen, the normal rules don’t apply.”

The personal ethics part is surprising. But the political view is even weirder. Sharlet reports that Doug Coe often talks about the “totalitarianism of God.” Apparently, he doesn’t mean this figuratively.

On Salon.com, Sharlet makes this astounding claim: “Counseling Rep. Tiahrt, Doug Coe offered Pol Pot and Osama bin Laden as men whose commitment to their causes is to be emulated. Preaching on the meaning of Christ’s words, he says, ‘You know Jesus said ‘You got to put Him before mother-father-brother sister? Hitler, Lenin, Mao, that’s what they taught the kids. Mao even had the kids killing their own mother and father. But it wasn’t murder. It was for building the new nation. The new kingdom.’”

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[wisteria]

1. Well, DeMint is certainly in a strange world of his own. n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

2. goes to show you what kind of bacteria rises to the surface of a puddle of pond scum

[dgibby]

3. DeMint is the darling of the movers and shakers in the Tea Party,

as well as the rest of the radical right. I have no doubt that he is positioning himself to run for the WH.

A review of his book, "Saving Freedom" and a list of those endorsing it:

"Saving Freedom highlights the key principles of personal freedom and how they are being eroded in Washington. Author, Senator Jim DeMint, gives a firsthand account of the unsettling socialist shift in America and offers readers a unique behind-the-scenes look into Congress and the decisions endangering the future of our nation.


Saving Freedom reviews and details the historical failures of socialism around the world and shows how socialistic policies have incrementally worked their way into all areas of American life creating an unhealthy and unmanageable dependency on big government for many Americans. According to a recent report, nearly 20 percent of all Americans depend on employment income from the government. Welfare, Medicaid, and programs for the poor are pushing the direct dole to more than 50 percent.


Most importantly, Saving Freedom gives readers a plan of action to reclaim America's freedom.


Saving Freedom has been praised by such noteworthy, and recognized names as Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, USMC (Ret.); Sean Hannity, host of the Sean Hannity Radio Show and Hannity's America on FOX News Channel; Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D., president, The Heritage Foundation; Steve Forbes, president, CEO and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine; William J. Bennett, Washington Fellow, The Claremont Institute and host of Bennett Mornings Radio Show; nationally syndicated columnist George Will and more."

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About the Author: Jim DeMint was elected senator of South Carolina in 2004 and then chairman of the Senate Steering Committee in 2006. For standing up against wasteful spending in Congress and saving Americans about $17 billion, Wall Street Journal editor Steve Moore called DeMint the "taxpayer's greatest ally." In 2008 Senator DeMint was the only member of the Senate to receive a 100 percent score on the American Conservative Union's "Defenders of Liberty" rating. DeMint was recently ranked as the Senate's most conservative member by the National Journal and as the number one senator voting for responsible tax and spending policies by the National Taxpayers Union.

link:

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-17-2009/0005078630&EDATE=

I know he comes across as just another SC elected crackpot, but he has very powerful friends in very high places, and now that the SCOTUS has ruled in favor of the corporations, he will have unlimited funding for his campaign.
I think he's the "stealth candidate" who will come out of nowhere and catch us with our "pants on the ground".

[Demeter]

4. He'll Need a Name Change: President Demento?

:rofl: