Dems’ new strategy: Isolate Eric Cantor as face of GOP intransigence

Washington comPost ^ | July 14, 2011 | Greg Sargent

[Recovering_Democrat]

Last night, President Obama and Eric Cantor exchanged harsh words over the debt ceiling, and on the Senate floor just now, Harry Reid uncorked a harsh attack on Cantor that suggests Dems are embarking on a new strategy: Isolating Cantor as the new public face of GOP intransigence.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Hussein hates Jews, I think that is clear.

Also, Eric Cantor is standing up to the chump in chief. Like Paul Ryan.

[Cicero]

I hope it backfires on them.

This show won’t be over until it’s over, but I sure think a lot better of Cantor for doing this.

[cripplecreek]

Alinsky tactic.

[mardi59]

Hang tough Cantor, you have millions behind you. If you give in we lose. Tell Lil Napoleon to stuff it.

[ansel12]

Why did Eric Cantor kick aside Michelle Bachmann when she tried for a leadership position last year?

[Snickering Hound]

[tennmountainman]

If I were Cantor, I would not even show up for the negioations.
Let Bonehead and The Gobbler McConnell be responsible for for whatecer snake oil deal Bonehead makes.

[Paladin2]

Grandma is going to hold Zer0 responsible for her SS check.

[oldbrowser]

The politics of personal destruction, again.

[Paladin2]

Cantor should bring a camera crew in with him.

[omega4179]

Alinskyism. Freeze it, Isolate it, Personalize it.

[demkicker]

The rats are really rattled and this ‘attack the messenger tactic’ has become every bit as tired and lame as their class warfare hysterics. All Eric Cantor has to do is keep on talking! They are terrified of his common sense message. He makes 1,000 times more sense than what ANY DEMOCRAT has to say - and the public gets it.... FINALLY!!!

[MHGinTN]

I am Eric Cantor, ala 'I am Sparticus'. We need to let these criminal bastiges know that We The People are still the sovereigns and that we will not stand silent while they demagogue and try to destroy someone because they oppose the criminal enterprise.

I AM ERIC CANTOR

[Principled]

ANyone hear that Mitch’s plan B is a go?

[BerniesFriend]

And as obama stormed out of the room, he was heard to mutter,”Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world!”..

[Norm Lenhart]

I don’t want to scream ‘fire’ where there is none, but BO has plenty of proven examples of going against the Jews in a plethora of ways. Because of that, BO’s anti-Semitic attitude has to be considered.

Yes, there are plenty of reasons BO wants his way on this deal that have nothing to do with Jewish anything, but This isn’t just about Cantor specifically. Consider that his numbers are falling in the Jewish community. To me it’s just another in a long line of BO’s thug tactics to try embarrassing a highly prominent Jew as a warning to the rest - “Get in line or I’ll smack you down too.”

3D chess by a man who can’t even play checkers. Gonna be blowback.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Recovering_Democrat.

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[Calusa]

I AM ERIC CANTOR

[I see my hands]

To: House Republicans

Make 239 Cantor masks.

[Girlene]

Cantor has a fairly savvy spokesman. From this little back and forth between Reid's and Cantor's spokesman, I'd say Cantor's had the upper hand. Reid, Cantor Trade Jabs Over Debt