Posted on 11/06/2009 3:27:52 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, said his party needs to be inclusive and criticized some comments by talk-show host Rush Limbaugh as inappropriate.
The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard, Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Televisions Political Capital with Al Hunt, airing today.
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Well said.
the stain of mccain is tough to remove from some minds .. you have to forgive those less tolerant or gullible.. it’s a dirty playing field.. a lot of mud gets flung.
wasn’t so long ago..
EXCLUSIVE: Cantor says GOP is no longer ‘relevant’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/17/cantor-says-gop-is-no-longer-relevant/
Stephen Dinan
GLEN ALLEN, Va.
Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, poised to ascend to House Republicans’ No. 2 leader this week, said the Republican Party in Washington is no longer “relevant” to voters and must stop simply espousing principles. Instead, it must craft real solutions to health care and the economy.
“Where we have really fallen down is, we have lacked the ability to be relevant to people’s lives. Let’s set aside the last eight years, and our falling down in living up to expectations of what we said we were going to do,” Mr. Cantor told The Washington Times in his district office outside of Richmond. “It’s the relevancy question.”
As chief deputy whip, Mr. Cantor, 45, was the logical choice to move up when Republicans’ current whip, Rep. Roy Blunt, stepped aside - something Mr. Blunt announced days after Republicans lost at least 20 seats in the House.
A week before Wednesday’s leadership elections, Mr. Cantor offered a bleak assessment of his party and where it’s fallen: technology, preparedness for political realities, such as the next round of redistricting, and pursuing its ideals.
Most of all, he said, Republicans have been content to offer principles, rather than concrete solutions. Voters, he said, have punished them for it.
Just a tad?? He clearly was not talking oil in the drill here, drill now debate....
1984's electorate isn't today's electorate. Today's electorate is less white (thanks to Kennedy's "We-are-the-world" immigration reform in the 60's, Reagan's amnesty and Clinton's and Bush II's open borders policies), less conservative and less "American" (thanks to the multicultural ethos espoused by the media elites). People say they're conservative, but 80's conservatives wouldn't have turfed Virginia's George Allen for saying "macaca".
I hate to nit pick, but I’m afraid that the Ft. Hood murderer came in under the Bush administration. While both Virginia and NJ went strongly Republican, I am not sure that this was Republican strength, so much as failures on the part of the Dem candidates. Particularly in VA, it is said the big victory was partly the result of large numbers of black Obama voters staying home this time. Also when Dems tried to make an issue about the Republican candidate’s college thesis comments about the proper role of woman, the Republicans got away with saying well this was just the talk of a college student. The Dems failed to point out that he was 37 years old at the time.
BINGO!
Do remember Pence's amnesty "compromise?" Sounds like amnesty light with an alternate (but still expensive) bureaucracy. I am hoping he will outgrow his RINO urges WRT amnesty.
“Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, said his party needs to be inclusive “
That’s precisely why I don’t want to be a “Republican”.
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