SC GOP Explains That Jim DeMint is Like a Penny-Watching Jew (In a Good Way!)

I think someone’s going to have to get these fine fellows a copy of Norm Podhoretz’s new book. Until then Rachel Weiner reports:

After a Democratic state senator wrote that DeMint didn’t bring enough money back to the state, Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer responded that he was just looking after the nation’s pennies — like a Jew would.

“There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves,” Ulmer and Merwin wrote. “By not using earmarks to fund projects for South Carolina and instead using actual bills, DeMint is watching our nation’s pennies and trying to preserve our country’s wealth and our economy’s viability to give all an opportunity to succeed.”

Admittedly, once upon a time Jews and reactionary deep south politics really did go well together.