One is a junior U.S. senator from a small, conservative state.

The other is a governor and former congressman known for sleeping on his couch in Washington and bringing pigs to the state Capitol to protest what he saw as pork-barrel spending.

Jim DeMint and Mark Sanford are major political players in South Carolina, but they have been blips on the national political screen.

Until now.

Sanford and DeMint emerging as knights of the right – Local / Metro – The State