[Gaffer]

What was poor little Eric to do? Buy everybody (voters for him, anyway) an iPhone? Give them a Section 8 voucher? Throw in an EBT card and pump it up with TANF, SNAP and the like? Too bad he couldn’t get them more EITC (that money was distributed in January/February so voter memory was as gone as the cash). What was he to do?

No wait. That’s what the Democrats did, and do. All he had was his lies about amnesty or whatever equivocation they’re making about it.

[Sacajaweau]

It was an open primary. I’m betting Repubs simply didn’t go to the polls....but Dems did. And that’s what you call a plan.

[9YearLurker]

I always thought Cantor was creepy and slimy, but the way he ran ads trying to accuse his more conservative challenger of being a liberal and to position his pro-amnesty self as anti-amnesty was beyond despicable.

That he was the second most senior Republican in the country, with the backing of all those GOPe groups, and he still did that shows just how morally bankrupt the GOPe is.

[ballplayer]

Another establishment brainwashed guy,Cantor had all the money he needed and got swamped by a guy who had none,then this guy’s only concern is more money,nothing on how message in a really enraged atmosphere trumps the good old boys

[Terry L Smith]

Once again, the NRA chose the boner!

[nathanbedford]

Bozell and other conservative leaders like David Bossie of Citizens United and Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots were all gathered at a Tuesday dinner at Bozell’s Virginia home when the news broke. “It is not less than shocking — even for all of the top professionals that are sitting at this table for dinner,” Bossie told POLITICO. “We are all in awe of what Dave Brat was able to pull off.”

Jenny Beth Martin who, according to Laura Ingraham declined to pick up the phone when Dave Brat called, bestired herself between the main course and dessert to call left-leaning Politico to spin like hell to cover her ass. She is the bankrupt who has been lining her pockets by double dipping and paying almost nothing to worthy conservative candidates.

Phillips, whose skirts appear to be clean, seems to have got it right:

"I think it sends a more powerful message that he (Brat)won without the influence of outside money.”

[Diogenesis]

"How Big Money Romney and Soros Failed to Rescue Eric Cantor"

[Joe Boucher]

Hey establishment politicos,
As a Tea Party supporter,
How do ya like me NOW?
Nervous YET?
Cause if you are a RINO or tax and spend baboso,
we’re coming for your sorry asses next.
“tea party dead?
Horse crap.

[txrefugee]

The business whores will give their money to Democrats now. They have no principles except bribing winning candidates so they get favorable treatment from the Goliath Government. Any GOP challenger who doesn’t tar his Democrat business-backed opponent with the “big money” brush isn’t going to win.

[randita]

Brat said “Dollars don’t vote, people do.”

He’s right. All the money in the world isn’t going to help you if voters are dead set against what you stand for.

When libs start screeching about big money in politics, just tell them big money didn’t help Cantor one smidgen.

[glorgau]

Good. There will now be a guy in there who owes nothing to nobody but the people who vote in the primary.

[Carry_Okie]

The campaign’s internal polling showed Cantor up by more than 30 points — a breezy victory that didn’t require their help.

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.

[GOPJ]

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...