Posted on 06/10/2014 6:34:13 PM PDT by lbryce
How did the No. 2 man in the House lose a primary? Chalk it up to immigration and the Tea Party. Its one of the most shocking losses in U.S. electoral historyand its bad for America. Heres the thing: Eric Cantor did not fall asleep in this race. He spent around $5 million. He ran lots of TV ads. He knew this was going to be a close one. He campaigned. And he still got creamed.
And heres the other thing: Cantor was not an enemy of the Tea Party. He was in fact the Tea Partys guy in the leadership for much of the Barack Obama era. He carried the tea into the speakers office. And still he got creamed.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Yep, and not just in *this* piece. There's quite a bit of "WTF just happened?!" to be seen in the articles about this primary that are now hitting the web.
Schadenfreude, baby!
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I was wrong. It seems the dems did select a candidate but since they didn’t expect to beat Cantor, they didn’t bother to have a primary.
Cantor turned into a RINO, and he went the way of the dinosaurs.
ahhhhwsummm
looks like it will be Speaker Of The House Paul come 2017.
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Uh.... no it won’t. Rand Paul is a SENATOR not a member of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
This defeat of Cantor, by a Tea Party unknown, should have Thad Cochran in MS and Pat Roberts in KS peeing in their pants.
“Throw one RINO overboard and now its the end of the world.”
Just shows how the left and the leftist media relate to RINOs.
"Republicans fighting primary elections around the country are complaining about the interference of Patriot Majority, a group that sounds like a Tea Party outfit and has targeted candidates for not being sufficiently conservative, and yet is in fact a conduit for Democratic money hoping to cause trouble." (Economist)
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/06/money-politics
“Were coming for you in November!!!”
I hope we can make those plans without needing to learn how to incapacitate an MRAP. I’ve never seen such entrenched politicians in all my years.
Cantor was stunned. His concession speech was a aimless joke.
There was no democratic primary. VA is an open primary and, according to a Slate mag blog, dems were asked to cast votes against cantor in todays primary.
The Dem committee nominated their candidate for the general election. Somebody named trammel.
Guess we will see in Nov if it pays off for them.
So freedom is bad for America!
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“He was in fact the Tea Partys guy in the leadership”
First I heard of it. But then again, I’m not a regular reader of The Daily Beast.
Sounds wonderful to me.
I’m so sock of the GOPe and their RINO yes men on the networks on Sunday mornings.
i thought the white house no longer had rules.may as well elect big bird or miley cyrus as speaker.
Right after they smell the FEAR, some GOPe sphincter-tightening should be in order.
“Potomac Fever”
DC does something those who enter the beltway. I like your expression and will shamelessly use it too :-)
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