DeMint: Palin has done more for the GOP ‘than anyone since Reagan’ | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

DeMint: Palin has done more for the GOP ‘than anyone since Reagan’ | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

The two have never met, but Sarah Palin’s star power hasn’t gone unnoticed by Sen. Jim DeMint.

“We’ve never spoken, but she left me a nice message, and I believe she’s done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan,” DeMint said.

In a Politico article published Wednesday, DeMint and other senators

are quoted talking about 2012 election candidate and courting possibilities. Mitt Romney is “near the top of [DeMint's] list” as well.

DeMint is not the first political official to draw connections between Palin

and the 40th president. Earlier this year, Arizona Sen. John McCain made the Palin-Reagan comparison during a CNN interview.

“I think that anybody who has the visibility that Sarah has is obviously going to have some divisiveness,” McCain said. I remember that a guy named Ronald Reagan used to be viewed by some as divisive.”

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