TO:  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

        National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn

        Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele

FROM:  The Undersigned Conservatives

Declaration of Conservative Leaders in Support Of Senator Jim DeMint

Senator Jim DeMint has been blamed directly or indirectly for the failure to capture a majority in the Senate by named and/or unnamed Republican senators, staffers and consultants. 

Such false and unfair attacks aid and abet President Obama, the Democratic Party and the liberal media.  We consider such attacks on Senator Jim DeMint an attack on us and all conservatives, and especially the conservative movement that is the successor to Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Jr., and other great progenitors of the conservative movement.

Perhaps more than any other Republican, Senator Jim DeMint is not only responsible for the net Republican gains in the Senate in the 2010 election, but has helped restore faith in the Republican Party as the party of constitutionally limited government.  He greatly energized the base of the Party, and therefore contributed to historic wins in the House, governorships and state legislatures across the country. 

In fact, Senator Jim DeMint's unilateral efforts to bring constitutional small government conservatives into the Senate has encouraged many conservatives to stay within the Republican Party, vote for Republican candidates, and even may have staved off formation of a third party and the demise of the Republican Party.

We do not expect or advocate for ideological purity in the Republican Party, but we do expect the Party's leadership to rein in those who unfairly attack Senator DeMint, who instead should be given credit for what he has done, and done with such class, honor, humility, dignity and patriotism.

Since Republicans in and affiliated with the Senate who have attacked Senator Jim DeMint have an agenda, and may not heed calls to reason from the Republican leadership, let it be known that continued attacks, whether indirectly or anonymously, will result in conservatives' responding in word and deed.

Conservatives will not only challenge and beat more Republican senators in Republican primaries, but conservatives will stop funding and volunteering for the NRSC and the RNC.  Instead, conservatives will send their money to, and volunteer for, Senator DeMint's Senate Conservative Fund and the candidates Senator DeMint supports.  In fact, it would be our goal for the Senate Conservatives Fund to raise more money than the NRSC.

Conservatives will also work to defeat in Republican primaries those Republicans who retain consultants who criticize or try to undermine Senator DeMint.

Respectfully,

(organizations named for identification purposes only)

Ted Baehr	Christian Film and Television Commission
Gary Bauer	President, American Values
Lee Beaman	Businessman
Joel Belz	World Magazine
Jerry Black	Legacy Planning Group, Inc.
Brent Bozell	Media Research Center
John Bradburne	Bradburne Consulting
Joe R. Calvert	Rabon-Calvert Interests
Angelo Codevilla	Professor Emeritus Boston University
David Y Denholm	President, Public Service Research Council
Donald Devine	Editor, Conservative Battleline
Miles M. Dewhirst	Dewhirst & Dolven, LLC
John Dodd	President, Jesse Helms Center Foundation
H. Paul Einarsson	Conflict Free Energy
Karen England	Capitol Resource Institute
Erick Erickson	Red State.com
Tricia Erickson	Angel Pictures & Publicity, Crisis Management, Inc., The Conservative Pundit
Michael Farris
Mark Fitzgibbons	American Target Advertising, Inc.
Bob Fischer	Fischer Furniture, Inc.
Jeffrey M. Frederick	Former Chairman, Republican Party of Virginia
Colin A. Hanna
Donna Hearne	The Constitutional Coalition
Micah Hobart	Paperless Transaction Corporation
Gary A. Hofmeister	The Steamboat Institute
Dee Hodges	Chairman, Maryland Taxpayers Association
Jason Jones	The Human Rights Education and Relief Organization (HERO)
Suhail A. Khan	Chairman, Conservative Inclusion Coalition Board Member, ACU
Michael Patrick Leahy	Co-founder, Nationwide Tea Party Coalition
Jordan Marks	Young Americans for Freedom
Bradley Mattes	Life Issues Institute
Troy Newman	Operation Rescue
David Noebel	President, Summit Ministries; President, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade
Richard Norman	The Richard Norman Company
Randy Page	South Carolinians for Responsible Government
Judson Phillips	Tea Party Nation
Larry Pratt	Executive Director, Gun Owners of America
Penny Pullen	Illinois State Representative 1977-1993; State President, Eagle Forum of Illinois
Ann Quest
Jamie Radtke	Chairwoman, Virginia Tea Party Patriot Federation; President, Richmond Tea Party
Dr. Don Racheter	Founder and Moderator, Iowa Wednesday Group
Robert E. Reccord
Alfred S. Regnery	Publisher, The American Spectator
Daniel Riehl	RiehlWorldView
Ron Robinson	Young America's Foundation
Drew Ryun	President, American Majority Action
Kelly Shackelford	Liberty Institute
Craig Shirley	Author and President, Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
Arthur Thompson
John and Teresa Trulio
Lois Verleur
Richard Viguerie	ConservativeHQ.com
Bill Walton	Rappahannock Ventures
Mark West	The Chattanooga Tea Party
Somers H. White	Former Arizona State Senator
Wendy Wright	Concerned Women for America