Morning Examiner: Gingrich losing DeMint primary

There is no person in Congress more trusted by the Tea Party than Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. From Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to Mike Lee, R-Utah, no sitting Republican provided better leadership than DeMint in helping the Tea Party move the Republican caucus to the right. South Carolina Republican primary voters know this, which is why DeMint’s comments to Laura Ingraham about on Newt Gingrich/Rick Perry anti-Bain Capital crusade are so important:

I don’t like that at all because I was in business a long time as a consultant to a lot of businesses. Everyone knows that over half of new businesses fail and that’s part of the process of failing and getting up and succeeding. And I really think that to have a few Republicans in this race beginning to talk about how bad it is to fire people, certainly we don’t like that, but it really gives the Democrats a lot of fodder.

DeMint then went on and accused Gingrich of hurting the pro-life cause: