There is a messaging thing in question here. Does Cantor want to be seen as rooting for the President to fail when what Obama is claiming to be trying to get the US going again? Think politics here.
If Cantor was really trying to support Obama then why did he manage to hold the line on the repubs when they voted in unision to reject Porkulus?
Then he needs to be a better "politician".....because the reality IS...if Obama succeeds then America fails to be the Home of the Free anymore. And I call that a huge failure. So you are damn straight I want him to fail.
He could have turned that question into...."I don't want America to fail, and I don't want America to become just ANOTHER country going down the failure road of Socialism either....because THAT is the way we are going..with the policies of the Democrats."