Demint's Palmetto Freedom Forum today at 3PM ET on CNN

Palmetto bugs swarm to  Demint's Palmetto Freedom Forum to compete over who can crash the American standard of living the fastest. 

Tune into: Sen. Jim DeMint's Palmetto Freedom Forum on Labor Day from 3 to 5 p.m. ET on CNN or CNN.com, then watch John King's interview with DeMint on "John King, USA" at 7 p.m. ET.


Watch Mitt Romney, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, businessman and talk show host Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul compete to see who can crash the economy the fastest, drive wages down the lowest and destroy the social fabric of America to the level of Jim Demint's South Carolina with the most zeal.


BREAKING NEWS (11:00 AM ET): Gov. Rick Perry will not participate in the Palmetto Freedom Forum today in order to return to Texas as the State battles wildfires . Perry did manage to participate in U.S. Rep Tim Scott's town hall meeting in Myrtle Beach prior to his departure from the State.(Sources: Huffington Post, Texas Tribune)


While Jim Demint leads the charge of the Tea Party movement, South Carolina could very well be the poster child of failed conservative politics. If Republican austerity fanatics have their way the rest of the country could soon find themselves swimming in the same soup:
Jim Demint's South Carolina among the poorest states in America
Teen pregancies, HIV and AIDS rates soar in South Carolina
Sexual violence in Jim Demint's South Carolina
South Carolina public schools among the worst in U.S.
Violent crime: South Carolina leads the country
Public health problems and low health insurance rates plague South Carolina's citizens
South Carolina: 4th highest unemployment rates in the U.S.
South Carolina last in education according to conservative group
Investor's journal slams South Carolina's management record

Demint's Labor Day Forum in Columbia, SC assembles the cream of the extreme

The Confederate Flag waves proudly over the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia where Jim Demint will be hosting his Labor Day GOP candidate's forum. The treasonous flag symbolizes the extreme conservative principles that South Carolina's elites invoke to keep their state unemployed,  uneducated and replete with heath problems and crime since the Civil War.

Tea Party kingmaker, South Carolina Senator Jim Demint is holding a Republican Presidential candidate's forum in Columbia, South Carolina, the state capitol.

Appearing before the invitation only audience will be U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann who's opposition to government bailouts didn't stop her family business from taking federal and State of Minnesota subsidies of nearly $200,000; Texas Governor Rick Perry who's "Texas economic miracle" shares the honor with Mississippi of being the states with the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs; U.S. Representative Ron Paul, Former New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, whom Demint endorsed in 2008, will not be present to represent the liberal wing of the Republican Party. Former Senator Rick Santorum was also not invited along with Huntsman because neither candidate met the polling requirements set by the event's organizers.

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