That’s a nice story, but it’s a novel, right? It certainly bears little resemblance to what really happened. Cantor beat himself, and Brat had NO help from the Tea Party. The press tried to whip up the immigration angle, but that wasn’t the reason Dave Brat won.
“That’s a nice story, but it’s a novel, right? It certainly bears little resemblance to what really happened. Cantor beat himself, and Brat had NO help from the Tea Party. The press tried to whip up the immigration angle, but that wasn’t the reason Dave Brat won.”
Sorry but Brat had PLENTY OF HELP from the Tea Party, but it was only the local Tea Party types - the national Tea Party and all other conservative groups wrote him off (what you’re saying).
As to why Cantor lost, I simply do not buy the OUT OF TOUCH argument that you’re trying to make - for if that was the case, Pelosi, Boener, and just about every other leader in both parties would be losing left and right - as being a leader pretty much assures very little attention back home.
As to Amnesty, it really didn’t matter, AT ALL, whether that was the deciding issue, and the libs did everything they could to support your contention that it wasn’t a major issue - but NONE OF THAT MATTERED once Cantor lost. The other Republicans saw Cantor get thrown on his ass and they perceived that Amnesty is radioactive. So no Amnesty and a HUGE VICTORY yesterday.
“That’s a nice story, but it’s a novel, right? It certainly bears little resemblance to what really happened. Cantor beat himself, and Brat had NO help from the Tea Party. The press tried to whip up the immigration angle, but that wasn’t the reason Dave Brat won.”
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Sorry, you need to research this more. The defeat of Cantor and, prior to that, the RINOs in the local GOPe machinery, was done by local constitutional conservatives who tired of the RINO lies & duplicity. It was basically a well thought out uprising by local conservatives.
These LOCAL conservatives fought and took back the local GOP (along with the Uber-duplicitous Cantor’s seat) from the corrupt GOPe. We owe these Virginia patriots a lot. And we should be copying their strategy and tactics across our great nation.