It was an open primary and Dems went to the polls.
Last night, Brit Hume (who I once had great respect for)got into this Amnesty definition and parsing thing these Republican establishment types are so fond of. “It isn’t ‘amnesty’..definition = pardon....it isn’t...blah blah blah.”
Laura Ingram cut that down to the horse pucky it is with [paraphrasing] “these ‘plans’ are all just euphemisms for allowing criminals who broke our laws to illegally stay in this country.”
I think the different results had more to do with the respective incumbents than the challenger(s). Cantor is singularly repulsive. Yes, Flimsey Tinkerbelle is too, but obviously not to a lot (>177,000) of South Carolinians.
Cochran is another example where the incumbent is so bad, they'll lose. But, how do we repeat Brat's success against an incumbent who doesn't beat themselves?
That sums it up! I think it was easy for the GOP honchos when they could blame it all on the Tea Party, which is a relatively small group of voters and one that may be somewhat transitory, but the overwhelming results make it very clear that the GOP has got some serious thinking to do.
Voters see illegal immigration as an existential threat to the nation. The Democrat establishment does , too. But they don’t give a damn, because it is to their short term political advantage.
The Democrats are in danger of becoming The Immigration Party, and trading a handful of legal Hispanic votes for the rest of their coalition. They have a foot in two boats. If they do not get legalization and 20 Million freshly minted citizens voting Democrat, they will lose it all.
Cantor spent $100 for every vote he received.
There ain’t enough lipstick you can put on that pig.
This is why Indiana got rid of Lugar. We ended up with someone who just pulls the lever for whatever Harry Reid tells him to.
The GOP establishment really ought to learn from that fact...no matter HOW CONCILIATORY one is to liberals, they still hate you.
I am also amazed at the push for "immigration reform" when it is APPARENT that Valerie's puppet will NOT ENFORCE CURRENT LAW.
Team BO just blatantly broke the law with the Taliban-deserter swap....why do they think he would abide by any new laws??????
Lesson for Republicans: Stop turning into Democrats when you get to D.C.
Quit trying to please all the people all the time RINOs. Have a spine. Stand up for what is right.
Well, bye.
Establishment dribble.
Cantor didn’t “muddle his message” on illegal immigration—he acted straight out for amnesty than ran baldfaced campaign ads claiming the contrary.
All of the current GOPe leadership is compromised on illegal immigration, though Ryan is more so than Hensarling.
And how remote from VA can a man in DC be? Voters weren’t just throwing a hissy fit because they felt ignored by the traitor.
(Does anyone actually believe that's going to happen?)
I don't see Ryan giving up his Budget Committee for Majority leader. For Speaker, yes. McCarthy is the whip, he is the traditional 'next in line' for the leaders post. I'd bet he gets it, since the establishment still runs the show.
Don’t forget that when conservatives called his congressional offices with their opposition to amnesty, his office staff was rude and hostile to their concerns. Those “smart” staffers antagonized the voters….a really stupid thing to do.
That should be a valuable lesson to other GOP politicians, who treat TEA Party Republicans as knuckle-dragging know-nothings.
Compromising with bad policy is like adding just a little sewage to your drinking water.
Even in the Cantor-Brat race, the ‘establishment’ GOP had mixed messages. Criticism of Cantor (Wednesday morning quarterbacking) is his changing stands on some issues, so the voters lost trust in him standing for anything.
That is a problem most of the GOP-elites have — they don’t stand for anything other than keeping their power positions for their own self interests.