"Eric Cantor Defeated by David Brat, Tea Party Challenger, in G.O.P. Primary Upset"RINOs beware.
"In one of the most stunning primary election upsets in congressional history, the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, was soundly defeated on Tuesday by a Tea Party-backed economics professor who had hammered him for being insufficiently conservative.
The result delivered a major jolt to the Republican Party — Mr. Cantor had widely been considered the top candidate to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner — and it has the potential to change both the debate in Washington on immigration and, possibly, the midterm elections."
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
The Tea Party is Dead (They Said Hopefully)...
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Portent of a watershed, if not a political tsunami? We shall see...
As for this RINO, I look forward to the day that the majority of the electorate decides to institute Constitionally-sanctioned term limits. Term limits have always been available: VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT OF OFFICE!
That has been my personal modus operandi for over 30 years. Prior to every election (particularly local and state elections), I get a sample ballot and determine who is an incumbent. If they are running unopposed, I do NOT vote for them. If they are opposed, I vote for the candidate who has spent the least amount of time in ANY government position. Only if I get a choice of uncontaminated candidates do I then consider their respective positions and the relative importance of those positions as a tie-breaker for voting.
Vis-a-vis my being a RINO: the county in which I live is overwhelmingly Republican. As a consequence, if you are not a registered Republican, you only get "one bite at the apple" in the general election; you cannot have an opportunity to knock out the careerist politicians during the primaries. AS for my personal political proclivities, I'm probably in greatest sympathy with libertarian impulses, followed closely by conservative impulses. Unfortunately, the "establishment" Republicans are neither. They are prime representatives of the liberal/socialist "BIG GOVERNMENT." The only real difference between Democrats and Republicans (in the final analysis) is on which branch of government or which government program shall be grown faster and to ever-increasing size.
Goodbye and good riddance to another Potomac Kool-Aid Drinker!
For once, the media uses the word "stunning" and it almost sorta kinda doesn't feel like editorial overreach.
Surprising, however, as the upset is, it' safer too early to interpret this as anything other than an outlier. Keep in mind this is only a primary. The guy still needs to survive the general election. And THEN duplicate the victory, say, twenty or thirty times.
"it' safer too early..."
Brain-dead spellchecker on the iPad can't handle contractions. Every time I type an apostrophe-s it changes it to something else,
The above should read "It's far too early..."
Hmm. An article today says that the Tea Party was not involved in Cantor's defeat; Laura Ingraham was credited with giving Brat a "big microphone" on her radio program:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380184/ingrahams-insurrection-eliana-johnson
Sounds like quite the spat brewing between Ingraham and the Tea Party.
And now there's talk of Kevin McCarthy as the next majority leader, so it doesn't look like Repubs took much of a lesson from Cantor's loss.
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