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How Big Money Failed to Rescue Eric Cantor
Politico ^ | 6/11/14 | Byron Tau, Tarini Parti

Posted on 06/11/2014 2:43:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 06/11/2014 2:43:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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What was poor little Eric to do? Buy everybody (voters for him, anyway) an iPhone? Give them a Section 8 voucher? Throw in an EBT card and pump it up with TANF, SNAP and the like? Too bad he couldn’t get them more EITC (that money was distributed in January/February so voter memory was as gone as the cash). What was he to do?

No wait. That’s what the Democrats did, and do. All he had was his lies about amnesty or whatever equivocation they’re making about it.


2 posted on 06/11/2014 2:47:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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It was an open primary. I’m betting Repubs simply didn’t go to the polls....but Dems did. And that’s what you call a plan.


3 posted on 06/11/2014 2:48:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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...”It was an open primary. I’m betting Repubs simply didn’t go to the polls....but Dems did. And that’s what you call a plan”...

This could turn out to be an earthquake anyway because this is about open borders more than anything else. We are seeing children being used by this government in an attempted revolution for America. That is what it is and people are very upset by the inhumanity of what is going on. Anyone who loves children is disgusted by the use of them by Washington D.C. for the sake of transforming American into a communist state. It is the lowest of the low..Children as a shield and an excuse for the few powerful elites who want this revolution. This election will give hope out here to people who have seen what is going on throughout all of the scandals hitting us all at once over the past 2 years, all a part of the hate America plan being put into action. Washington is lawless and we need people in office who will forget about the parties and the lust for money who will care about the future for everyone.


5 posted on 06/11/2014 3:28:25 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: Sacajaweau

I guess it’s time for the GOPe to decide who they support. The winning Republican who the people chose, or a Democrat.


6 posted on 06/11/2014 3:39:03 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: nickcarraway

I always thought Cantor was creepy and slimy, but the way he ran ads trying to accuse his more conservative challenger of being a liberal and to position his pro-amnesty self as anti-amnesty was beyond despicable.

That he was the second most senior Republican in the country, with the backing of all those GOPe groups, and he still did that shows just how morally bankrupt the GOPe is.


7 posted on 06/11/2014 3:40:56 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: nickcarraway

Another establishment brainwashed guy,Cantor had all the money he needed and got swamped by a guy who had none,then this guy’s only concern is more money,nothing on how message in a really enraged atmosphere trumps the good old boys


8 posted on 06/11/2014 3:44:45 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: nickcarraway

Once again, the NRA chose the boner!


9 posted on 06/11/2014 3:47:17 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: ballplayer

According to comments on Twitchy Cantor spent more on steak houses than Brat's total expenses current to May 21 report.

10 posted on 06/11/2014 3:52:34 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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Bozell and other conservative leaders like David Bossie of Citizens United and Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots were all gathered at a Tuesday dinner at Bozell’s Virginia home when the news broke. “It is not less than shocking — even for all of the top professionals that are sitting at this table for dinner,” Bossie told POLITICO. “We are all in awe of what Dave Brat was able to pull off.”

Jenny Beth Martin who, according to Laura Ingraham declined to pick up the phone when Dave Brat called, bestired herself between the main course and dessert to call left-leaning Politico to spin like hell to cover her ass. She is the bankrupt who has been lining her pockets by double dipping and paying almost nothing to worthy conservative candidates.

Phillips, whose skirts appear to be clean, seems to have got it right:

"I think it sends a more powerful message that he (Brat)won without the influence of outside money.”


11 posted on 06/11/2014 3:52:34 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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"How Big Money Romney and Soros Failed to Rescue Eric Cantor"
12 posted on 06/11/2014 4:01:02 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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Hey establishment politicos,
As a Tea Party supporter,
How do ya like me NOW?
Nervous YET?
Cause if you are a RINO or tax and spend baboso,
we’re coming for your sorry asses next.
“tea party dead?
Horse crap.


13 posted on 06/11/2014 4:31:25 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: Sacajaweau

Cantor’s campaign is saying that this is not the case.


14 posted on 06/11/2014 4:31:29 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Sacajaweau

It was an open primary. I’m betting Repubs simply didn’t go to the polls....but Dems did. And that’s what you call a plan.


Not so.

The Democrat cross vote was insignificant in the Cantor primary.

People are pissed off about what our leaders are doing in Washington.


15 posted on 06/11/2014 4:31:41 AM PDT by rdcbn
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The business whores will give their money to Democrats now. They have no principles except bribing winning candidates so they get favorable treatment from the Goliath Government. Any GOP challenger who doesn’t tar his Democrat business-backed opponent with the “big money” brush isn’t going to win.


16 posted on 06/11/2014 4:41:40 AM PDT by txrefugee
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“The business whores will give their money to Democrats now.”

Business may very well ‘read the tea leaves’ and join the Tea Party.


17 posted on 06/11/2014 5:07:13 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: nickcarraway

Brat said “Dollars don’t vote, people do.”

He’s right. All the money in the world isn’t going to help you if voters are dead set against what you stand for.

When libs start screeching about big money in politics, just tell them big money didn’t help Cantor one smidgen.


18 posted on 06/11/2014 5:07:36 AM PDT by randita
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You’re right.

People have absolutely HAD IT with double talking and double dealing ‘politicians’ who go to Washington and pretend they forgot HOW they got there!


19 posted on 06/11/2014 5:14:45 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: nickcarraway

Good. There will now be a guy in there who owes nothing to nobody but the people who vote in the primary.


20 posted on 06/11/2014 5:26:56 AM PDT by glorgau
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