His loss to Dave Brat, a political novice with little money marks a huge victory for the tea party movement, which supported Cantor just a few years ago.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/house-majority-leader-cantor-defeated-primary
Note: this is what should happen to politicians who support amnesty while in DC, then return home to tell their constituents how much they oppose amnesty.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/house-majority-leader-cantor-defeated-primary
Note: this is what should happen to politicians who support amnesty while in DC, then return home to tell their constituents how much they oppose amnesty.
It’s one of the most stunning losses in modern House politics, and completely upends the GOP hierarchy in Virginia and Washington. Cantor enjoyed a meteoric rise that took him from chief deputy whip, to minority whip to majority leader in the span of 13 years. He had long been seen as John Boehner’s successor as speaker.
The loss will ripple across Washington, too: from political consultants who worked for Cantor to his aides who decamped for K Street, there will be reverberations.
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.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/...on-results-virginia-107683.html#ixzz34HtGw02P
The loss will ripple across Washington, too: from political consultants who worked for Cantor to his aides who decamped for K Street, there will be reverberations.
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.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/...on-results-virginia-107683.html#ixzz34HtGw02P
This is a Major victory for one man. Our Own RoadReeler. His 112 page and Counting Anti Immigration Thread did it, and effectively Immigration reform is dead Nationally for the Foreseeable future.
Perfect storm of an anti Immigration Candidate and a HUGE story about those Kids streaming over the borders that has rightfully infuriated a whole lot of people, cost Cantor his seat, and hopefully his career. Funny that Cantor Was the Tea Party guy back in 2011, is as Conservative as it gets on almost every issue(save Immigration), and their choice to unseat Boner. Nice to see them eat their own.
Perfect storm of an anti Immigration Candidate and a HUGE story about those Kids streaming over the borders that has rightfully infuriated a whole lot of people, cost Cantor his seat, and hopefully his career. Funny that Cantor Was the Tea Party guy back in 2011, is as Conservative as it gets on almost every issue(save Immigration), and their choice to unseat Boner. Nice to see them eat their own.This is a Major victory for one man. Our Own RoadReeler. His 112 page and Counting Anti Immigration Thread did it, and effectively Immigration reform is dead Nationally for the Foreseeable future.
“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” ― Mark Twain.
yup exactly willie....not saying this guy brat is the answer but i listened to him tonight i hope he sticks to what he said or the people will turn on him just as quickly as they backed him. same thing happened to scott brown here in MA ran with the backing of the tea party and turned his back and was gone...
+1.
Dimocraps taking credit for this on social media...hilarious.
They really have no idea what's behind this. Let's hope this is just the beginning. Every RINO is flipping out right now, and they should be. It's high time to flush the entrenched self-serving turds, both D and R, out of their cushy spaces.
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[h=2]11 political lessons from Eric Cantor’s loss[/h] Updated by Ezra Klein on June 10, 2014, 9:27 p.m. ET @ezraklein
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Eric Cantor's shocking defeat at the hands of David Brat is that rarest of things in American politics: a genuine earthquake. And like with real earthquakes, the damage will be much greater because so few were prepared. A few provisional thoughts:
[h=2]11 political lessons from Eric Cantor’s loss[/h] Updated by Ezra Klein on June 10, 2014, 9:27 p.m. ET @ezraklein
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Eric Cantor's shocking defeat at the hands of David Brat is that rarest of things in American politics: a genuine earthquake. And like with real earthquakes, the damage will be much greater because so few were prepared. A few provisional thoughts:
- The Republican Party's core problem isn't the extremism of its members but the weakness of its leadership. Tonight, the Republican Party's problem got much, much worse.
- "Republicans" are not the same as "Republican primary voters." In 2012, Eric Cantor won the general election with more than 220,000 votes. Tonight, Brat beat him with about 36,000 votes. It's possible and even likely that the vast majority of Republicans in Virginia's 7th District liked Cantor just fine. But primaries only count the people who come out to vote.
- Immigration reform is dead and Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes are so, so alive.
- Mere weeks ago the press was writing the Tea Party's obituary. Tonight, the Tea Party claimed its single biggest scalp. This speaks to the weird way the Tea Party exerts powers.
- The power of the Tea Party has never been the number of Republicans it defeated in primaries. The overwhelming majority of Republican incumbents running for reelection win their primaries without trouble. Rather, it's been the prominence of the Republicans the Tea Party defeated that give the movement its sway. Dick Lugar, Mike Castle, and Bob Bennett. They were institutions. And Eric Cantor's loss is a nearly an unprecedented event in American politics. These losses mean no Republican is safe. And that means that as rare as successful Tea Party challenges are, every elected Republicans needs to guard against them.
- The Republican Party has a serious data problem. In 2012, Mitt Romney's internal polls were garbage. This year, Eric Cantor's internal polls showed him up by more than 30 points. Something is deeply wrong with the GOP's campaign infrastructure if the party's presidential nominee and the party's House majority leader can't rely on their pollsters.
- "A Cantor loss will send a chill down the spine of so many House GOPers contemplating compromise," tweeted my old colleague and friend Zachary Goldfarb. "A disaster for Obama." That seems...wrong. House GOPers weren't seriously contemplating compromise before Cantor's loss and they're not contemplating it after his loss. In terms of legislative achievements, Obama's second term has been done for some time. But in terms of protecting his legislative achievements — and protecting coming executive branch actions like his proposed climate rules — what matters most for Obama is that a Democrat wins the presidency in 2016. Tonight made that a little more likely.
- Some on the left are envious of the Tea Party's success at cowing Republicans. "The Left endorsed Cuomo; the Right successfully primaried the sitting House Majority Leader = how the country keeps moving to the right," tweeted Max Berger. Others voiced similar sentiments. But this isn't how the country keeps moving right. This is how the country keeps moving left.
- If Republicans hadn't scared Senator Arlen Specter into the Democratic Party and if Democrats hadn't kept Senator Joe Lieberman on their side Obamacare would never have passed. If the Tea Party didn't keep knocking off viable Republicans Mitch McConnell would have been Senate Majority Leader since 2010. If Mitt Romney could have run as the Massachusetts moderate he once was Obama might well have lost in 2012. It's possible Republicans will now lose in Virginia's 7th District. The Tea Party is good at policing purity but they're terrible at winning power.
- Of late, there's been a lot of talk about "reform conservatism," a gentler, more inclusive, more wonkish brand of conservatism. Cantor, a founding member of the "Young Guns," was one of reform conservatism's patron saints. His loss suggests reform conservatism doesn't have much of a constituency, even among Republican primary voters. The Republican base, at least in Cantor's district, isn't in the mood for technocratic solutionism. It's still angry, and it still believes that any accommodation is too much accommodation.
- John Boehner must be having an emotionally complicated evening.
I was playing Poker with 6 Dems when the news came across one of their phones. My ear were bleeding. It got worse. One stated Obama's rep will be much better 10 years from now when everyone has quality affordable health care. Of course this is the same guy who got 4 of a kind and moaned when on the next hand he was dealt a King and a 6 on his first two cards 
Funny thing is outside of politics all we do at that game is laugh for 4 hours straight.
Funny thing is outside of politics all we do at that game is laugh for 4 hours straight.
