Posted on 06/10/2014 5:14:03 PM PDT by cotton1706
RICHMOND, Va. — Dave Brat, a local economics professor, toppled House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Tuesday night in the most shocking primary defeat since Republicans took the House in 2010.
The conservative challenger’s victory halts one of the most meteoric rises in national politics, and illustrates the strong anti-incumbent fever that has taken over Cantor’s Richmond-area district. Cantor is the second House incumbent to lose this primary season — Texas GOP incumbent Ralph Hall was defeated by a tea-party backed challenger at the end of May.
Cantor’s defeat not only reorders Virginia politics, where Cantor was the highest-ranking Republican, but it completely throws the House Republican leadership into flux. Cantor, 51, was long seen as the next speaker of the House after John Boehner retires.
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Republican means nothing to me. Cantor is a Republican, and is as bad as a Democrat.
Yes. good analysis on Hume—he really showed his true colors tonight.
Kelly says they are waiting for a statement from Dr. Brat.
/johnny
Is that picture River Song?
And hooray for the tea party.
Maybe there is some hope for the USA.
Guy named Jack Trammell. He ran unopposed, so they cancelled their vote to save the money. He’s a professor at the same place that Brat teaches.
Dana Perino on now sounding sad as she is a RINO herself. She was talking today on the 5 sounding sympathetic for the illegal kids crossing the border...
Did you hear Megyn Kelly laugh and say, “Another professor no one has heard of?”
The pointy-chinned idiot needs to be told that the Founding Fathers never intended for our representatives to be career pseudo-celebrities.
That woman makes me ill.
No we don’t do that at all, we all fall all over ourselves trying to elect conservatives, like we did tonight in this incredible victory for ‘we all”.
While you haven’t been at this conservative site for long, you probably know that your fighting for liberalism isn’t too popular here.
“Dana Perino on now sounding sad as she is a RINO herself. She was talking today on the 5 sounding sympathetic for the illegal kids crossing the border...”
Ugh. She said that Cathy McMorris Rodger should be Majority Leader. These people really are clueless!
Oh, yes, so the liberal Jews would switch their vote. /S
‘Fraid not, sweetie. I don’t think Cantor is a FReeper, but I know that he’s not a Conservative.
Unfortunately, he will be in power until the November elections, and he will be doing a lot of
damage before he loses his job.
That is a truly great ZOT gif. It has been added to my collection and will be used soon.
I really like Emilia Clarke.
I think we have a GOPer seeking antisemitic comments.
‘Cantor loses’... it doesn’t get much better than this.
This afternoon I enjoyed listening to Hugh Hewitt’s utter astonishment that this could happen. He couldn’t fathom how the unwashed tea party masses could rise up and dethrone one of their rulers. Don’t they know enough to support amnesty and big government Republicanism?
I switched over to John Batchelor to listen to cocaine Larry Kudlow and a selection of other RINOs console themselves that at least they had vanquished tea party Tim Donnelly with the wonderful metro-whatever Neel Kashkari, and Republican elites can safely beat the drum for amnesty in California. Why I suspect they might even have a Presidential contender in Neel Kashkari, he’s the perfect GOPe candidate- pro gay marriage, pro amnesty, and barely an American, pretty much like Obama.
And you are still worried about losing the seat? Sounds like a concern troll to me.
/johnny
I stand corrected. You make convincing points.
Rats are always tough to deal with. We have the nasty ones here in Va. The roof rats, brown rats, and black ones.
We also have over 400 years of experience in dealing with them.
Yes, I heard that!
She showed a short clip of Dr. Brat speaking on a street in DC last month and it was impressive.
Fox has been on this one topic on for about 90 minutes now.
Hume is still fuming over amnesty.
Lol, being concerned doth not a troll make. Two unknowns running in an R+10 district One is an anti-immigration Tea Party guy. The Democrat has no record.
The Democrats are going to throw the kitchen sink in this race, because they are salivating at the chance. Cantor was a lock. Now, the door is cracked open.
The GOPe is gonna do what? Throw a ton of money at a guy who tossed out their boy? Seriously?
If you don’t have any concerns, you’re not paying attention.
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