“Have I mentioned that Cantor is not a moderate?”
And, to Susan Estrich, I’m sure that is true; given her hard left stand on most things. She characterizes anything to the right of her as ‘not moderate’.
Just sayin’... Consider the source. And, I still can’t stand to listen to her voice.
He’s not a moderate. Frankly, if he had been some freshman house member, he would not have been targeted. His problem wasn’t his overall record, it was his being in a powerful position and constantly doing and saying things that scared conservatives.
From my reading of the vote, the goal here isn’t about whether you can get a better conservative voting record for the 7th district. Frankly, Brat looks great, but he’s never voted before, so nobody really knows what will happen when he actually sits in that office and gets lobbied by the entrenched interests.
The goal here is to put a more proven conservative mover into the majority speaker role. And to send the message not to mess with immigration.
You miss an important point. To a leftist like Estrich, “moderate” means “a leftist who is trying to pass, and to convince the American public that he isn’t one of us.” In those terms, she’s probably right. By any objective standard, Cantor is “moderate,” in that he doesn’t appear to stand for any principles at all other than the accrual of personal power.