Jim DeMint’s CPAC Quote of the Day (So Far)

If anyone doubted that “socialism” was the hot new term in the halls of CPAC, making a big comeback from the late 1970s, here was Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just now:

Earlier this week, we heard the world’s best salesman of socialism address the nation.

DeMint assured the audience that “free markets and deregulation did not wreck our economy,” and that education failure was the fault of “the federal government and our courts.”