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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Oh, yeah, he's a vindictive little weasel. He must have butthurt all the way up to his tonsils.
It’s time for the Party to rally behind this Tea Party candidate.
What. Guademala is not good enough?
Because its the picture I grabbed.
The people have spoken, damn them!
- Eric Cantor
How about this historic surprise? Unreal.
LOL!
Holy Crap! This ought to sent shivers up the jelly spines of the GOPe!
And in so doing, they damned him. And his RINO POS buddies. Here and in DC.
Just Wow. I heard him speak on Mark Levins’ show a few weeks ago and was impressed. Nice work.
And the Fox RINO Boys are pissed themselves.
Gingrich on CNN making very good points.
Shocker——showboating Cantor loses.
Just goes to show-—amnesty’s a big, BIG loser.
That pic says it all!
What a historic victory for Brat.
Now Fox news is blaming the rain… Bwahaaa
ITs the low turn-out doncha know...
Stunning! I now believe it’s possible to unseat Lamar, and a few others. Not a beer in the house to celebrate. I have to go.
John Boehner and Eric Cantor are Committing Political Suicide; Details Here:
March 29, 2014 By Jennifer Burke
Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner is offering his support to a PAC whose mission is to destroy the Tea Party and other conservatives within the Republican Party. Joining him in this effort are Eric Cantor and 26 other members of the GOP. These Republican leaders will attend a swanky $5,000 per person event at the Ritz Carlton at Amelia Island in Florida.
The PAC in question is the Republican Main Street Partnership PAC founded by RINO Leader Steve LaTourette from Boehner’s state of Ohio. The PAC claims that it seeks party unity and has the following as its mission statement. This PAC also has as an affiliated PAC the Defending Main Street PAC.
To make Washington work again, we need more – not fewer – elected officials who are willing to put partisan politics aside to work for the greater good. That’s where the Republican Main Street PAC comes in – we support Republican candidates who are committed to governing and to making Washington work again.
However, for this group, party unity means nothing when it comes to staunch conservatives or others directly affiliated with the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party. In that case, the Main Street PAC sides with the left in seeking to attack and destroy such individuals.
Notice within their description of ‘what we do’ they very specifically state that they are working for the ‘greater good’. Those words and that ideology, the ‘greater good,’ are not only code words for Progressivism; they are as well for Communism.
In addition, one of the main donors for this supposed right of center PAC are Democrat-controlled labor unions. So, in cozying up with their buddies at Main Street PAC, Boehner, Cantor, and the other 26 Republicans are aligning themselves with labor unions and communist sympathizers.
The Daily Caller reports on LaTourette’s threatening words aimed at conservatives and Tea Partiers.
“They have decided to systemically go against center-right Republicans in primary elections,” LaTourette previously told The Daily Caller, referring to his tea party rivals. LaTourette said that tea partiers are happy to call him a “RINO” but that that they go “apoplectic” when the “RINO gets a gun” and “fires back.”
“Here’s the deal we didn’t start this fight,” LaTourette said, “but I’m going to finish it.”
While the list of the other 26 Republicans attending the anti-Tea Party, anti-conservative Main Street PAC event with Boehner and Cantor is not yet published, the group does have the names of members of the Senate and Congress who they count within their official membership. Some of the names on the list associated with this George Soros connected, communist code word using group may surprise you.
The fact that Republican leadership would consort with a group with close ties to Democrat backed labor unions, individuals with close Soros ties, and communist code words as part of their mission statement leads one to wonder – whose side are they on?
Never heard of that, but we could use one. I keep remembering about that Murkowski chick in Alaska who ran as a write-in candidate in the general election after losing her primary -- and she won. If I recall, however, there were serious questions about the legitimacy of her victory. I think the GOP-E will pull out all the stops on this one to do something similar for Cantor.
So the REALLY HUGE POSSIBLY HISTORIC QUESTION IS...Has a sitting House Majority Leader EVER lost a primary?
Well now we’re really screwed, cuz there won’t be no immigration “reform” and so we’ll never win any more elections. So says the “conventional wisdom of DC” which is worth about as much as flea flatus.
Maybe the electronic doors on federal buildings got stuck and the govt workers couldn’t get to the polls to vote Cantor?
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