Posted on 06/11/2014 2:43:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
WRONG
I’m not convinced of Brat’s conservatism, and do not trust Catholic candidates.
I know it took only 35,000 votes to win, so Cantor's real problem was low turnout. He is a nice man, handsome, smart, and well spoken. His support probably went to sleep, but I just didn't think that Republican voters 'just wouldn't show up' without some strong disaffection for both candidates (I have never missed an election). Nevertheless, although Brat too is a nice man, smart, and well spoken, I just don't see in him the kind of leadership that would get people to crawl over broken glass to vote for him. So his people probably took Morton Blackwell's teachings to heart and ran a flawless ground game.
Even so, the margin was so big and the media jumped on it so hard, I'm smelling something. Not to disparage Brat in any way, but the tinfoil hatted paranoid in me smells a Diebold victory. This district is a pretty safe seat, so one would legitimately wonder why anybody would bother, other than to gin up a news story about 'the eeevil TEA Party' to help motivate turnout in November while knocking off the House majority leader. It would fit how they think. I hope I'm wrong, but that is how little faith I have in our election systems any more.
Well, I REMAIN convinced that Eric Cantor was a Republican Establishment traitor to conservatism and to our sovereignty.
Wow!
I haven't heard that expression since 1960!
Jenny Beth Martin does not speak for the Tea Party. Our votes do the talking.
The Washington Post thinks money’s all that matters in pollitics. Guess this made them out to be the fools we know them to be...
It was an open primary but Brat had something the amnesty loving GOPe can’t buy, on the ground Get Out The Vote. It takes a lot of dedicated people going door to door to drag voters to polls in off year elections. Hard for the GOPe to find amnesty lovers willing to go door to door for them.
There are plenty of people who see the invasion and will do anything to defend this country and put an end to the invading hordes.
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