Jim DeMint: Mitch Daniels Is The 'Only One' Who Could Emerge As GOP Nominee From Convention

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that a brokered convention wasn't very likely, but the one person who could emerge from it would be Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R).

According to the Augusta Chronicle, DeMint was asked by an audience member at the Aiken Republican Club what he thought of Daniels as a potential Republican presidential nominee during the convention.

"He’s the only one who could make it happen," he said. "But I don’t think his wife will let it happen."

DeMint has said that he will not endorse a candidate in the 2012 GOP presidential primary, focusing his efforts on the U.S. Senate. "I have the ability to raise $10 (million) or $15 million to elect some senators and that's how I think I can help the next president. So that's what I want to do," he told the AP in January. "As soon as I get involved with one (presidential) candidate, I've got 80 percent of my supporters mad at me."

Daniels has been the target of a great deal of presidential speculation, even though he said he wouldn't run for president in May 2011 for family reasons. Bill Kristol and his magazine, The Weekly Standard, have continued to tout Daniels as a candidate. A recent blog post by Kristol said that Daniels won a presidential debate that he wasn't in.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have all been mentioned as possible last-minute candidates, despite the fact that all of them have said that they aren't running.

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[MontanaHome]

12:36 PM on 02/24/2012

Signing "right-to-work." into law.

Attacking Planned Parenthood.

Decimating our public school system.

Would likely sign into law legislation that the state legislators are considering now, including _banning the right of universities to prohibit _gunz on campus and forcing the teaching of creationism in science classes.

Yep, MD fits right into theloonatic Republican line-up.

[bluecatb]

12:31 PM on 02/24/2012

Oh, Great. Another Sarah Palin Alaskan Independent Party secessionist.

Look Republicans, slicing and dicing and labeling everything and everybody, is OLD NEWS , from yesteryear's social divisive playbook. If we wanted to relive it, we would ask for alzheimers, not offense to patients suffering.

I simply can't see any of these fake "human corporate peope" over my health, job, economy, or as a public servant. They are thinking of their next "mark" in America, WE are thinking of looking out for American citizens by creating the jobs, their party held up for 40 years and counting. There are times further back in technology they stole from Nicholai Tesla and now have run rogue.

Look up Lord Blackheath's 15 trillion fraud.

[Charleyeo]

02:58 PM on 02/24/2012

Thank You. Informative comment. As far as I can see there are no intelligent Repugs.
Obama 2012. F&F

[Seattlecabdriver]

12:28 PM on 02/24/2012

Please convince Mr. Daniels to run, oh please oh please Mr DeMint...

[wavechaser]

12:15 PM on 02/24/2012

No one can carry the present day Republican banner . The problem like Mitt Romney has of course is that you have to lie to win the nomination. The fools you represent will hold you accountable. Doesn`t matter if it`s another Bush or a new shining star it doesn`t eliminate this core problem. How do you get nominated and then run in an election and win the moderate vote ? Answer...you can`t even if you lie to everyone.

[knott wrench]

12:13 PM on 02/24/2012

Jim Demint hasn't endorsed any current GOP TP candidates because he doesn't want to be associated with current group of Losers.

So after breath some Carbon Monoxide he comes up with Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Another Loser with his past familial baggage, not including his latest imposition of Right to Work law in Indiana.

What a Joke.

[AGammaRaye]

12:12 PM on 02/24/2012

Mitch's wife is too smart to consent to the circus their marital history would provide............

[Ernst Angst]

12:11 PM on 02/24/2012

Oh my, if the great (in his own mind at least) Jim DeMint says it, it must be the word from god on high!

[Scrnwrtr82]

12:09 PM on 02/24/2012

I will laugh my head off if after 800 debates and millions and millions of dollars spent on these prospective candidates if the GOP does an end-run and pulls in Mitch Daniels or Chris Christie or Ms. Quitter or...to run. These will be the same people asking us to vote them in to run a country and they can't even run a campaign season.

[bluecatb]

12:35 PM on 02/24/2012

And therein lies the problem. They vote for the same people and never get different results.
There is a rumor that Jeb Bush is gonna throw his cowboy OIL price pipline hat in.

I sincerely hope the AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT INSANE.

Same chit different day is how WE THE PEOPLE ENDED UP WITH TEA BAGGERS AND CONS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CIRCE 2000 AND CURRENT.

[BeasleysMom]

12:07 PM on 02/24/2012

Bwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaha

The gop desperation is so funny. Karma served up to an entire political party. Who would have thought?

[realpointz]

12:04 PM on 02/24/2012

Republican have given up trying
i forgot they have no sane candidates
just more bat sh...crazy
this guy
mini bush seriously

[jujub]

12:03 PM on 02/24/2012

Let's hope Jim DeMint is wrong and finally gets his Waterloo...

[geewhizwow]

12:03 PM on 02/24/2012

He (Demented) should be in stripes for that Alvin Green fiasco
I still wonder why that whole rigged setup election wasn't investigated

[BocaSlim]

12:01 PM on 02/24/2012

The Grand BooBah of Hillbillies has spoken!!!!!

[Thirdstone]

11:58 AM on 02/24/2012

Bush's budget director. And we know how that turned out.

[jujub]

12:02 PM on 02/24/2012

Exactly...F+F

[bordway]

11:50 AM on 02/24/2012

"and that's how I think I can help the next president."

So you're going to have a change of heart after President Obama's reelection? No more obstructionist rhetoric? No more secret holds or threat of filibuster? After wasting the last three years, you're really going to sit down, work across the aisle and earn your money?

Sorry Jim. Maybe a few folks in SC believe you, but I sure as hell do not. From what I can tell, everyone in your party is passing bullets through their sphincters.