[RockinRight]

Saying that you know there is a complaint (which there is, regardless how misguided), isn’t the same as agreeing and wanting to “fix it” by government handouts.

Part of the GOP’s marketing problem is that they totally ignore certain complaints people have.

You can acknowledge an issue without compromising your principles.

Molehill, you are now a mountain.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I would agree with your main point — but Cantor played into the hands of the media here and is clearly scared by the BS poll numbers showing that Americans support this mob.

Its Cantor’s fear reaction and poor way he handled the subject that upsets me. This is not the first time for him either.

But yes, he could have said essentially the same thing without buying into the liberal premise. For example, he could say that there is tax paying disparity too, or stressed that government is the cause of all the income disparity - or said that government union employees are now the rich. But he didn’t say any of that....

[kosciusko51]

The problem is that the GOP is too willing to use the labels of the left and then try fight from the downhill position. GWB used "compassionate conservative" because the left's position is that conservatism is not compassionate.

Now we have "income disparity". But no one talks about "work ethic disparity" or "ingenuity disparity" or even how certain jobs have an inherent disparity on the impact on their fellow man. Steve Jobs became fabulously wealthy pleasing his fellow man. The geek down at the Apple store, well, not so much.

[lonestar]

Saying that you know there is a complaint (which there is, regardless how misguided), isn’t the same as agreeing and wanting to “fix it” by government handouts.

I think the headline is misleading...He acknowledged the complaint but I didn't see that he agreed with it.