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We'll never get a president as smart as Jim DeMint

By Alex Koppelman

Published August 31, 2009 3:55PM (EDT)

I wouldn’t get out of my driveway without my wife shooting me in the back. You’ve got to find somebody who’s smart enough to be a great president but dumb enough to want to be president.

Right now, I think I’m still too smart to be president.

-- Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. (Via GOP 12.)


By Alex Koppelman

Alex Koppelman is a staff writer for Salon.

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