Posted on 06/11/2014 2:18:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Nancy Pelosi said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s loss has created a “ whole new ballgame” for the midterm elections.
Cantor lost in an upset to tea party challenger Dave Brat on Tuesday, an outcome Democrats quickly jumped on as a sign that the Republican Party is being pulled to the right by its conservative wing.
“Eric Cantor has long been the face of House Republicans’ extreme policies, debilitating dysfunction and manufactured crises. Tonight is a major victory for the Tea Party as they yet again pull the Republican Party further to the radical right,” she said in a statement.
The California Democrat added, “As far as the midterms elections are concerned, it’s a whole new ballgame.” Democrats have tended to fare better in competitive races when tea party candidates oust the establishment’s pick, notably gaining wins in Indiana and Missouri in 2012 that helped Democrats maintain Senate control.
Privately Democrats acknowledge they have little hope of winning back the House in 2014 but Pelosi and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) maintain that they can hold onto a number of competitive seats if the Republican candidates are dragged to the right.
“We will see [Republicans] run further to the far right with the Tea Party striking fear into the heart of every Republican on the ballot and cementing the dysfunction that has paralyzed this Congress and prevented them from taking any action to help middle class families,” said Israel.
But the Brat win likely won’t mean a Democratic victory come November. Jack Trammell, a professor at Randolph-Macon College, is the Democratic nominee in the7th district, which tilts Republican. Israel’s statement did not mention Trammell.
Oh yeah, Cantor’s district is now going to elect a Democrat.
Right
“Privately Democrats acknowledge they have little hope of winning back the House in 2014 but Pelosi and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) maintain that they can hold onto a number of competitive seats if the Republican candidates are dragged to the right.”
Wrong. Here comes the tsunami, Nancy. Duck!
Pelosi Galore never ceases to disappoint.
And the Dems are going Marxist daily, Nan.
God I despise this old bag.
Unfortunately, this is an EXTREMELY dangerous time for the Republic...
Nancy and those remaining on the “dark” side will give ousted RINOS an opportunity to side with them for a final FU as they pass amnesty during the lame duck session...
Cantor may still get the last word...
Cantor lost in an upset to tea party challenger Dave Brat on Tuesday, an outcome Democrats quickly jumped on as a sign that the Republican Party is being pulled to the right by its conservative wing.
The only way the Republican Party can win the next Presidential election. Pelosi and the rest of the rats know this. They will make this sound like doom and gloom for the Country even though we are already in doom and gloom because of them.
“We will see [Republicans] run further to the far right with the Tea Party striking fear into the heart of every Republican on the ballot and cementing the dysfunction that has paralyzed this Congress and prevented them from taking any action to help middle class families,” said Israel.
Oh shut up. The Democrats never help the middle class you piece of crap..
Yeah Nancy go ahead and defend the invasion on our Southern border,Obamacare,trading terrorists for traitors,Benghazi,the IRS,Fast and Furious,negative economic growth,Iraq now back in the control of the terrorists.
Those right wing extremists who believe in the Constitution and the rule of law,love their country and are not Communists
Oh, Dizzy Nancy, you just don’t get it. Cantor’s loss should be making her quake in her heels. Voters are tired of career politicians and their power trips, tired of business as usual, tired of high taxes and deficits with no action to remedy the problem, tired of open borders, tired of the “good old boys” club in D.C., tired of all talk and no action, tired of politicians fattening their own pocketbooks, and more. Voters are ready to take out the trash and that, Nancy, includes Democrats.
Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right here I am stuck in the middle with you. Pretty good song lyric and not directed at you.
This left right crap will implode eventually.
Sadly it’s going to get worse before it gets really bad.
I’ll probably be gone before it happens and I pray for my kids and what they are going to have to deal with.
Democrats have tended to fare better in competitive races when tea party candidates oust the establishment’s pick, notably gaining wins in Indiana and Missouri in 2012 that helped Democrats maintain Senate control.......
Thus the reason demodummies vote and vote often in “open” primaries.
Yep. RINOs you and the Dems are toast. If the conservatives win, 2015 will be an absolutely horrible year for Zero.
People are starting to see how extreme Democrats have become... that's hurting them. Another is that they're seen as liars...
Projecting again, grandma Nan?
Says the multi millionaire (net worth $26 million) Maoist from San Fransicko.
>> Dave Brat's a professor at Randolph-Macon too. So BOTH major party candidates in VA-7 are R-M profs? > Would LOVE to know whether they have "history" together. The politics of academia, particularly when it comes to Liberal vs Conservative ideologies, can be incredibly nasty and very personal ...
Someone posted this thread:
Rate My {Professor! Republican Dave Brat vs. Democrat Jack Trammell (http://www.ratemyprofessors.com Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2014)
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