Have you even watched the video? Cantor does not say this.
Give it up, dude. There's a certain percentage here on FR that has a vested interest in dividing conservatives as much as possible with bogus, dishonest nonsense like the title of this thread, etc. There's a similar percentage who can then be reliably counted on to jerk the knee without bothering to fact-check, and then we have the percentage who are just "ain't-never-gonna-vote-fer-the-Republicans-again!!!!" whiners.
"Nobody, no democrat, no republican, wants this president to fail."
Then at the end, he is asked this:
"So the Rush Limbaugh approach of hoping the president fails is not the Eric Cantor/House Republican approach?"
Cantor's answer: "George, absolutely not."
So yes, he DID say it.
Couple of thoughts. One, I think that's the correct answer. Rush can say anything he wants, and he's getting a lot of attention for what he said, which is what he wants. He's in the attention-seeking business.Cantor is correct to distance himself from those remarks.
Second, Cantor did an awful job. He says "we have ideas, we have positive solutions" but doesn't name or explain a single one. Lame.
Someone like Newt would have said, we have solutions, for example, and would have given some handy soundbites explaining them, plus he would have mentioned his website.
Bottom line: Cantor sucks.