One thousand for DeMint by midnight.
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Red State has raised $1,010.30 for Jim DeMint in eleven hours. We beat the midnight deadline. We made our goal. And we moved a good man that much closer to the United States Senate.
Red Staters -- you do yourselves proud. Now, how to celebrate? I can think of one way.
Original post below.
Let's cut to the chase: Give to Jim DeMint. Give to Jim DeMint. Give to Jim Demint. Want more? Then read on.
Where is the most dynamic, interesting, and crucial Senate race in the United States today? Where do you find the most stark choices between modernity and the past -- and between conservatism and the left? No question: it's in South Carolina, where Red State-endorsed Jim DeMint is battling Inez Tenenbaum for Fritz Hollings' old seat. The race has had its ups and downs, and now we're coming into the home stretch.
It's time to pull the stops out for DeMint.
This race is tighter than it ought to be. Partly it's because Tenenbaum, a prior holder of statewide office in her own right, is a tenacious campaigner -- even if her staff management is erratic. And partly it's because of Jim DeMint's agenda. Make no mistake: it's a good agenda, and it's a right agenda. Free trade, radical tax reform, and Social Security reform: these things are tough sells in good times. Talk about them in a state still in the throes of economic transition and adaptation to globalization, and the sell gets even tougher. Does that mean DeMint shies away from them? Does he adapt his public agenda to the expediencies of electoral pandering?
Are you kidding? That's not Jim DeMint. He's stood up for what's right -- it's time for Red State to again stand up for him. So give.
Give because you want to revive a dying breed, and reward conservative political courage. Jim DeMint broke with his party to oppose the Medicare boondoggle -- and that which was good in that bill, the individual health savings accounts which empowered ordinary Americans to avoid insurance premiums, was his creation. Give because small businesses are desperate for a friend in the United States Senate. Give because DeMint puts his strong pro-life convictions to a pragmatic end and vigorously supports adoption. Give because Jim DeMint supports school choice, even as his opponent simply endorses yet more spending. Give because the campaign needs help. Whereas the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has been pouring money into Tenenbaum ads since 19 August -- with $2.2 million in total support so far -- the National Republican Senatorial Committee's $1.4 million statewide ad buy for DeMint doesn't even begin till 5 October. The NRSC has even had to step in to help with DeMint's campaign costs. The difference hitherto in national party support has been massive. Step into the breach, friends. Give because you, faithful Red Stater, want to show what a "little person" can do. Give because, despite the outside help, Inez Tenenbaum is an increasingly dirty and dishonest campaigner. Even as DeMint maintains his strong focus on issues, the Tenenbaum campaign makes hay out of DeMint's innocuous rhetorical choices. Even as DeMint pushes for an epochal liberation of all Americans from the burden of the income tax, the Tenenbaum campaign falsely claims that this would represent a tax hike. Give because you don't want this Democratic chicanery to be rewarded. After a long string of commanding DeMint leads, SC Democratic pollsters now show a 46-43 Tenenbaum lead. If for nothing else, give because Jim DeMint is the only Congressmen to put a gallery of Shoeless Joe Jackson photos on his official site.
It's people like you -- the small donors, the average man, the little person -- who have kept Jim DeMint in this fight for so long. When the general campaign started, he had only $97,663 on hand. Inez Tenenbaum had two million dollars. Can ideas, drive, and your help overcome almost anything? You bet. You've kept DeMint in -- now see him to the win.
It's hard to overstate the importance of your contribution. Money is the lifeblood of a campaign in more ways than one. It doesn't just buy air time or materiel; it engenders perception. A candidate with a healthy intake of donations is able to credibly appeal to other, bigger donors. A candidate with ample funds won't receive negative press about troubled campaigns. A candidate with sufficient cash can talk about the issues he wants to talk about.
A candidate with money to spend is curiously apt to win.
Here's $100.02 for Jim DeMint. $899.98 and 11 hours to go. Can we send $1,000 his way before midnight? I think so. Heck, one dollar from every daily visitor would get the man $5,000-$7,000. One dollar from every registered Red Stater would get him $2,000. We can do this. Go. And don't forget to tack on your $0.02. Tells 'em that Red State sent you.
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Let your peers know the good work you've done!
$825.96 and 10.5 hours to go. You are starting the ball rolling, my friend.
... Coming momentarily.
Although my left-leaning wife is starting to ask questions about "this DeMint fella . . ."
From: JimDeMint.com [mailto:info@jimdemint.com]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 2:31 PM
To: mkrempasky@***.com
Subject: Thank you for supporting Jim DeMint!
Thank you, Michael, for your generous contribution of $20.02.
Please note, your contribution will be listed as "edonation" on your next credit card statement.
$754.92 and 9.5 hours to go.
About 25% completion in about 15% time. Well done!
for $20. Lost my browser window before I could tell them who sent me, though.
Patrick
This is the first time I've given money to a political campaign. I still consider myself an independent, but I've decided to give more than my vote and my voice to causes I believe in.
Pretty good for a guy home with bronchitis. (I had fogotten I had given him something before, but all my data came up, so I obviously had.)
And let's get around to endorsing Thune, awright?
Jadedmara and I pooled some left over poker winnings and sent 75.02 to DeMint... do we have totals for the other candidates?
$459.84 with four hours to go.
Over the hump, folks.
Even if we stopped right here -- I am incredibly proud of the Red State community right now. Bravo, bravo, bravo.
Another $300.02 in the kitty. My credit card bill next month is going to be PAINFUL. Then again, if Kerry and the Dems get in charge, I'll pay that much extra in taxes, so...
I'm saving a bit for Thune, but then THAT'S IT. All right? NO MORE.
$159.82 and THREE HOURS LEFT.
Gary, you've done more than your bit for God and country. My hat is off.
I just sent $20.02. Wish I could do more but the RNC just can't stop begging for all my extra cash.
I am sick of hearing Inez Tannebaum's misleading ads on the radio and TV here in Charleston.
It's unfreakingbelievable how the Dems think we are all idiots.
Please, oh please, send this man some money!!!!
He's plumetting in polls because of his recent advocacy of a National Sales Tax.
Don't get me wrong - I support the idea of a Nat'l Sales Tax. It rewards saving without punishing achievment. And with exemptions on certain items, the "poverty question" is easily answered.
But until voters have to pick up a pen and write a check for thousands of dollars in income tax, they won't ever be mad enough at the IRS to support a radical idea like doing away with the system. DeMint should have laid low on this issue until after the election.
....and you know it's got a strong advocate who can win -- why not support the man?
Those three donations may look big, but those are the only three I've given to ANY candidate AT ALL this year. Those of you giving $15 here, $25 there, throughout the whole campaign probably have helped more than these splashy last-minute jobbers.
I certainly don't want to upstage anyone into thinking "well, I was going to give $10, but that's a drop in the bucket." The GOP candidates generally LIVE off those "drops," unlike the 'Rats who have billionaires funding their campaigns.
Would give more, but I've just spent my monthly political 'allowance' on my local candidate.
Sorry, I forgot to add my two cents. Just as well. Nobody else needs them anyway.
Ok another $10.02. If it seems cheap, it is because I gave to GWB last night and National Right to Life a couple of weeks ago. Plus, I am not crazy about a national sales tax idea. But I'd rather that then a socialized healthcare system...
Cheap? No. Not cheap. Small is dear, and you have done a good thing. Many thanks.
Ithinkyouleftoutmy35fromthetotalandnoIhavenoflippinIdeawhymyspacebarisntworkingonthispost.
Are given . . . along with $65.
Outstanding, Pejman. Thank you.
I'm a poor college student, but I'm a South Carolina gal and feel DeMint deserves my money and my vote.
Here's hoping you go to Furman. ;-)
Every penny counts. And yours count for a lot.
Just so you get the total correct, I donated 20$ at 2:36pm 10/1/04 as per your site. Keep up the good work !
A percentage of my income for the next 10 years will be going to Columbia College and Clemson. Furman can't have any LOL
So there are good things coming out of there....who knew? ;-)
I happen to favor gay marriage, but I can understand why some oppose gay marriage; and, so long as these opponents make their case on the state level -- where the debate should be held -- I can justify supporting them. DeMint's recent comments regarding gay schoolteachers, however, are beyond the pale (see Andrew Sullivan for the particulars).
I know many decent folk -- compassionate folk, giving folk, worthy folk, good folk -- who happen to be gay. Some have been friends to my family since before I was born (some have been friends of my grandparents for 40+ years), and have been partnered with the same soul-mate for far longer than most straight couples. Some were (or are) schoolteachers. I will not have their names slandered. I will not have evil done to them. I will not support a man who slanders them, or gladly speaks of the evil he intends to do to them.
This was my last donation to DeMint. (If I could take it back, I would.) I admire his stance of free trade; I admire his pragmatism on abortion. I cannot, however, support a man who would gladly do evil. I guaranteee that I am not the only Republican or Republican-leaner out there who feels this way.
I'm pretty surprised by it myself. I'll still support DeMint -- I don't think this rises to the level of "evil" in my book -- but I can certainly appreciate why others would not based on this.
I think that candidates are required to return donations if asked. I dont have a cite handy.
Given DeMint's comment, I feel like a fool for having defended him earlier.
Pro-life? Radical tax reform? School choice? Free trade? What's not to love about DeMint? That's one effective pitch you just made there, Trevino. I'm in for $75.02.