January 21, 2011
AP
His spokesman doesn't offer a specific reason, but it's not hard to figure out why a guy who famously insisted that "you can't be a fiscal conservative and not be a social conservative" might skip an event that now seems primed to test that theory.
"With leading conservatives organizations not participating this year, Senator DeMint will not be attending. He hopes to attend a unified CPAC next year," DeMint spokesman Wesley Denton said in an email.
"He will have to explain to the American people why his vision for bigger government, more spending, and higher taxes will work over the next four years when it hasn't worked in the past three and a half years.” – Sen. Rob Portman on President Obama
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