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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (60300)	12/18/2012 12:17:27 AM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Brown used his Twitter account to claim that African American Tim Scott isn't really a black man. Tim Scott is, of course, a Republican just like Governor Haley who will appoint him to the vacant seat. All one need be is a black man in the GOP and the hatemongers come out in force with their racist name calling The idea that your should have to have a political view because of your race is one of the most racist semi-common ideas out there.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (60300)	12/18/2012 2:36:29 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

A History Maker Twice Over By John Fund December 17, 2012 11:52 A.M. The appointment of Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint as South Carolina’s new senator is both history-making and good news for conservatives. Senator DeMint, who is leaving Congress to run the Heritage Foundation, is certainly pleased. At a Heritage dinner last week he made little secret of the fact that he wanted Scott to replace him. “He’s a good and decent man with firm convictions,” he told me. This is the second time that Scott has made history. He becomes the first black senator from the Old Confederacy since Reconstruction. In 2010, he became the first black Republican elected to the House from the South since the 1890s. His House race that year was drenched in symbolism. Scott ran in the GOP primary for the seat around Charleston against Paul Thurmond, an attorney and the son of one-time segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond. After having dispatched Thurmond easily, Scott won the general election. He took office in time to attend ceremonies marking the 150th anniversary of the attack on Charleston’s Fort Sumter, which touched off the Civil War. Scott is an American success story. He grew up poor, his parents divorcing when he was age seven. His mother worked 16 hours a day to provide for two children. Scott was in danger of dropping out of high school when a conservative businessman who ran a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant inspired him to keep going. After graduating from college, he went into the insurance business and won election to the state legislature in 2008. You can count on Scott to be a stalwart conservative. He backs the full repeal of Obamacare, has signed the no-new-taxes pledge, and is a major proponent of a simplified tax code. nationalreview.com

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (60300)	1/11/2013 9:33:36 PM
From: greatplains_guy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Launching a Conservative Revival Conservative ideas need a new message By Jim DeMint, Jan 11, 2013 12:47 AM EST Jim DeMint represented South Carolina in the Senate from 2005 to 2013 and in the House from 1999 to 2005. The U.S. Senate reached an all-time low — a hard mark to achieve — last week as I said my goodbyes to rejoin the real world. The “fiscal cliff” theatrics ended with a predictable non-solution that raised taxes on all U.S. workers and added more weight to the millstone the federal government has hung around our necks. A day after that “achievement,” I left Congress and moved across the street to the Heritage Foundation, where the mission is to formulate and promote conservative ideas. It is from Heritage — of which I will become president in April — that I aim to take this message directly to the American people. Why? Because the federal government will not stop spending, borrowing and growing our debt until the American people force it to stop. Conservative ideas work. Numerous states are demonstrating that low taxes, right-to-work laws, school choice, energy development and other common-sense policies improve the lives of everyone. Conversely, progressive central planning has failed throughout history and is still failing today. The right ideas have the power to change the course of America, which is why the place to launch a conservative revival is the Heritage Foundation. It used to be said that Willie Mays’s glove was where triples went to die. Well, Congress has become the place where good ideas go to die. In contrast, think tanks such as Heritage use objective analysis to discover why ideas work or don’t. This is how the foundation helped pioneer welfare reform. A Heritage scholar was a primary architect of the 1996 welfare law that President Bill Clinton was eventually forced to sign after vetoing it twice — a law that later, ironically, became a hallmark of his presidency. Heritage was also the early promoter of missile defense and the belief that you could hit a bullet with a bullet, which proved so useful in defending Israel just two months ago. Unfortunately, welfare reform and missile defense have something in common beyond Heritage’s intellectual paternity. They both have been gutted by President Obama. Always faint-hearted about missile defense, the president in his first year dismantled our programs in Poland and the Czech Republic. He disabled welfare reform last year, when he took away the work requirements that were at the heart of that law’s success. How could the president get away with hobbling two successful programs with barely a peep from the media or backlash from the millions of Americans whose lives are made better and more secure by these initiatives? That’s a question and a challenge I take very personally. After spending my professional career in research, advertising and marketing, I find it unthinkable that American voters are not demanding the ideas and policies that will improve their lives and brighten their future. One lesson I learned in marketing is that, for consumers and voters, perception is reality. November’s election results and exit polls suggest that a majority of Americans agree that government does too much yet still voted for more of it. The election taught conservatives that we can no longer entrust political parties to carry our message. We must take our case to the people ourselves, and we must start where all good marketing starts: with research. Conservative policies have proved their worth time and time again. If we’re not communicating in a way that makes that clear, we are doing a disservice to our fellow citizens. We need to test the market and our message to communicate more effectively. That’s why Heritage will start this year to help the conservative movement understand how Americans from all walks of life perceive public policy issues and how to communicate conservative ideas and solutions. This research project into current public perceptions and how we change them will assist in the resurgence of the conservative movement in America. After spending 14 years in Congress, I know that not many politicians in Washington show the courage displayed by conservative leaders at the state level — leaders like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who pushed through necessary reforms in the face of strong opposition. Washington politicians usually refuse to lead a policy debate unless they are assured that a majority of Americans support that policy. As conservative icon Milton Friedman said: “The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either.” This is the kind of climate-change talk I like. I look forward to the years ahead. washingtonpost.com