WASHINGTON, February 9, 2012—Working with the other side is a trope that politicians love to bandy about, regardless of their ability or penchant to do so. Not Jim DeMint.
The South Carolina Senator fired up a CPAC crowd early today by going after the fundamental differences between conservatives and liberals, and vowing to stick to conservative principles in the face of incessant calls for compromise. He got a few cheers and some murmured boos when he ventured to make a Super Bowl analogy: "Tom Coughlin did not tell his Giants to go out on the field and work with those other guys. The two teams had different goals. [Coughlin said] the only way we're going to get to our goals is to go out and beat those other guys."
Compromise, he pointed out, works when two sides have similar goals. "We don't have shared goals with the Democrats." He went on to criticize Harry Reid and Senate Democrats for bringing to a halt important work. "We need to change the Senate," he said. DeMint lauded the freshman class of conservative senators, and promised to continue efforts to get more in.
Conservative voters, infused with confidence from their succcess in the 2010 midterms, seem eager enough to join in DeMint's call for no compromise.
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