DeMint Sees Job as a Mission From God

The State reports:

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint came close to quitting Congress after one term because of his wife’s difficult battle with cancer and bitter clashes with other GOP senators over his slash-and-burn tactics to cut federal spending.

But Debbie DeMint, the senator’s high-school sweetheart, told him he couldn’t abandon the anti-government cause he’d come to view as a mission from God.

“To my amazement, Debbie said we couldn’t quit,” the South Carolina Republican writes in his new book, “The Great American Awakening.”

“So we spent those special moments at the end of (2009) praying and asking God to help us through the next year of campaigning,” he wrote. “We had no idea He would answer our prayer in such a clear and wonderful way.”

Within a year, DeMint was overwhelmingly re-elected to the Senate, joined by five Tea Party candidates he’d helped bankroll over Republican mainstream choices.

Debbie DeMint, who was diagnosed with breast cancer, underwent surgery and two months of radiation treatments. Doctors have said she is cancer-free.