DeMint to GOP elders: Game over, pals. Insists conservatives must drive agenda #tcot

DeMint to GOP elders: Game over, pals. Insists conservatives must drive agenda

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sporting his new hat as the head of the Heritage Foundation, former Sen. Jim DeMint said Saturday said that conservatives should not rely on the GOP establishment to deliver the movement's message. He said it is time to take matters into their own hands.

Addressing the National Review Institute's "Future of Conservatism" summit, Mr. DeMint said that conservatives must take charge of the way the movement is perceived.

"Conservatives have given the sole distribution rights of our ideas, our beliefs and our values - at least in the political sphere - to the Republican party," the South Carolina Republican said. "We are on the outside looking in hoping they will take some of our ideas and adopt them. It is time to flip that around."

Mr. DeMint said conservatives cannot expect lawmakers to run on their ideas if they represent people who oppose them.

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