CQPolitics: Uberconservative Jim DeMint Will Not Support NRSC Because Money Might Be Used To Help Roy Blunt

Incredible stuff from CQPolitics this morning about South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's (R-Tea Party) public refusal to support hypocrites like Rep. Roy Blunt.

Senate Republican leaders and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) are quietly waging a battle over campaign strategy even as the two sides seek to show a united front after a divisive primary season.

Although the National Republican Senatorial Committee has begun spending millions of dollars on Senate candidates whom DeMint backed in the primary, South Carolina’s junior Senator remains dissatisfied with NRSC strategy in a handful of races. DeMint is taking what he deems corrective action by spending money in such races, drawing funds from his Senate Conservatives Fund political action committee and his own personal re-election account...

The Senator has made a decision not to transfer any of his excess campaign funds to the NRSC this fall because he does not want the money used to fund Republican Senate candidates such as Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (Ill.), veteran Rep. Roy Blunt (Mo.) and challenger Carly Fiorina in California. Fiorina, supported by the NRSC in the primary, defeated the DeMint-backed state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore.