Posted on 06/12/2014 7:14:47 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt
"Tuesday night, David Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, right outside Richmond, accomplished something stunning: defeating the House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, something never done before in American history."
"Some are trying to pigeonhole Mr. Brat as a Tea Party candidate, but the truth is that, while he appeals to the Tea Party constituency, he is what a bread-and-butter Republican is supposed to be: a believer in free markets, limited government, strong defense, and a morality based in our Judeo-Christian ethos."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"Mr. Cantor, as House Majority Leader together with Speaker Boehner, did not seem to share the alarm that many of us do. In effect, an invasion is happening to America and the weapons are not bullets but the ballot box: Democrat leaders are orchestrating an influx of illegals to use the ballot box to install socialism and permanently maintain the power of the Democrat Party. Their eligibility to vote is often suspect, but legitimate challenges are shot down by invoking the tried-and-tested accusation of racism.""
Bingo! Someone out there is finally writing what I believe. Cantor thought is was a good time to make a deal with Obama the day before his shellacking.
In other words, the Tea Party.
To paraphrase Reagan, I did not leave the GOP, the GOP left me.
"Some are trying to pigeonhole Mr. Brat as a Tea Party candidate, but the truth is that, while he appeals to the Tea Party constituency, he is what a bread-and-butter Republican is supposed to be: a believer in free markets, limited government, strong defense, and a morality based in our Judeo-Christian ethos."
And the Tea Party is not for limited government, strong defense, and a morality based in our Judeo-Christian ethos?
Why doesn't the Rabbi show some stones and tell it like it is? Dave Brat is absolutely Tea Party in his character, beliefs and positions!
Cantor copped the arrogant "we got it made" attitude. He had a war chest of $5 million dollars and was backed by dozens of Super-pacs.....to no avail.
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The Congress-Amnesty-Wall Street-Big Business-apparat is becoming clearer by the day. Breitbart reports the mega-rich George Soros, the politically-connected Mark-Zuckerberg, are colluding w/ wealthy and politically-connected individuals to foist amnesty on struggling Americans. The Chamber of Commerce's business interests are organized against Americans--- aiding and abetting the "amnesty cabal."
Cantor's loss was a HUGE slapdown of the "amnesty apparat" since he had aligned himself w/ the amnesty forces of "wealth and privilege"........colluding to foist amnesty on struggling Americans.....a major reason for his stunning loss.
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Americans are struggling, some have no jobs, some in jobs w/ stagnating salaries. But the "amnesty cabal" is conspiring against Americans-----to take their jobs, their livelihoods, and give them to people who do not even belong here....who broke laws to violate our borders.
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It was a slap in the face of every law-abiding American that the Guatemalan Counsel complained about the conditions the children were being kept in US facilities.....as Obama colluded w/ the Third World and was jet-streaming aid in the form of legal assistance and billions of tax dollars.
This is an outrage---the swarm of illegals at the border have TWO governments looking after their interests.....
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Struggling Americans have NOT EVEN ONE govt protecting their interests.......only the "amnesty cabal" and the forces of of "wealth and privilege" conspiring against them.
I’m surprised there’s not more of this - “Tea party didn’t vote for Cantor cause he’s a Jew” nonsense.
This guy went right to the heart of the matter. Great essay!
” - - - - Republican voters are not happy with the GOP’s establishment position on amnesty for illegal immigrants and other hot-button issues fracturing the party. - - - “
The above quote, from another (today) FR thread article by author Adrianna Cohen describes the disconnection between the GOP-E leadership and that of the Republican voter.
To her credit, she did not rely on the usual defensive Liberal smokescreen tactic of using Liberal Media Polls based on OPINIONS to magically transform her case into a beyond question “Scientific” Case.
What Ms. Cohen and much of the rest of the Right and Left Stream Media are mis-reporting is that there is a “fracture” in the Republican Party.
The basic assumption of these journalists is that a political party must be monolithic, united, and speak “with one voice.”
Anything deviation of opinion in the party is viewed as a danger that must be quickly healed before it becomes, (gasp!), a fracture.
The current Democrat Party is a perfect end example of what today’s Journalists view as normal political party behavior.
The reality is that The GOP-E Leadership has chosen to arrogantly ISOLATE itself from its voters.
The triple Presidential losses of Dole, McCain and Romney has curiously served to strengthen the GOP-E Leadership’s resolve to isolate themselves even more from their former and present Republican voters.
While the GOP-E Leadership has been busy appeasing, caving-in and otherwise “marching to the drum beat” of Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi, they have marched themselves into ever-increasing isolation.
After 4 + years of handing Obama a blank check, ignoring all illegal bypasses of Congress and caving-in to whatever Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi demand, the GOP-E Leadership has effectively isolated itself in the eyes of the average Republican Voter.
I gotta tell you....this Brat win has given me a sliver of hope the party may get its act together. Eventually, they are either going to figure it out and embrace conservative ideas and conservative candidates, or there will be a new second party. This year, I was betting on the later of the of the two. I have some hope in the past couple weeks again.
I dunno, there is a wing in the GOP-e that will never concede that running and governing on a conservative platform works. Probably because such viewpoints are by their nature a limitation on power, and the GOP-e lusts for such.
2015 AND 2016 ... with the Republicans controlling House and Senate will tell the tale. What they accomplish will literally determine the future of the Republic.
If they fail to act, it's the ammo box before 2030.
...yeah, that's the ticket.
It's just like I was telling my wife, Morgan Fairchild!
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