Eric Cantor Loss Is an Earthquake

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I’m sure there's ramification five, six, seven, and eight that I'm not even thinking of right now. We'll see. But this is an earthquake. One of the most shocking electoral nights in American history. Did I really say that? I did. It’s true. And it's bad.



Cantor upset in Virginia GOP primary by Tea Party backed challenger

www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/11/house-majority-leader-eric-cantor-loses-virginia-gop-primary-ap-reports/

Brat, an economics professor and political novice, latched onto the hot-button issue of immigration, accusing Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the GOP-led House, of supporting immigration legislation that would give "amnesty" to millions of people living illegally in the United States.

"If you go knocking door to door, you'll know the American people think they’re in trouble," Brat told Fox News. "It was a miracle. God gave us this win."

Brat, a Princeton graduate and seminar student who teaches at Randolph-Macon College, a small liberal arts school north of Richmond, attempted to downplay the Tea Party vs. Washington establishment narrative about the race.

He said he enjoyed Tea Party support but was a candidate focused on Republican principles including free markets and "adherence to the Constitution."

Brat also said Cantor, who was first elected in 2000 and has ties to Tea Party backed lawmakers in Congress, had spent too much time in Washington and lost touch with the conservative base in his Richmond area district.

Large corporations and other groups donated heavily to the incumbent.

The American Chemistry Council, whose members include many blue chip companies, spent more than $300,000 on TV ads promoting Cantor. And the political arms of the American College of Radiology, the National Rifle Association and the National Association of Realtors had five-figure independent spending to promote him.

Soon after Cantor conceded, questions also began to arise about what the result means for Boehner's future as Speaker. The conventional wisdom is that Boehner has been strengthened by Cantor's defeat, as his strongest potential challenger for the Speaker's gavel has been removed.

Democrats reveled in the loss.

"From Day One of (President) Obama's presidency, Eric Cantor has used every dirty trick to block the Democratic agenda," the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said in a fundraising e-mail.

"Eric Cantor has long been the face of House Republicans' extreme policies, debilitating dysfunction and manufactured crises. Tonight is a major victory for the tea party as they yet again pull the Republican Party further to the radical right," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "As far as the midterm elections are concerned, it's a whole new ballgame."

In the fall, Brat will face Democrat Jack Trammel, also a professor at Randolph-Macon, in the solidly Republican district.



Tea Party Defeat Of Eric Cantor Spells Trouble For GOP

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If conservatives weren't sure that Democrats see a chance in the tea party upset of the second-most powerful Republican in the House, here's how Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee head Rep, Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) put it in a statement soon after the news broke:

We all saw how far outside the mainstream this Republican Congress was with Eric Cantor at the helm, now we will see them run further to the far right with the Tea Party striking fear into the heart of every Republican on the ballot and cementing the dysfunction that has paralyzed this Congress and prevented them from taking any action to help middle class families. While House Republicans are racing to the right, Democrats are focused on a mainstream agenda that strengthens the middle class and makes this economy work for every American family. Eric Cantor is the personification of frustration with Washington and House Republicans should be terrified of the backlash from the voters who have been alienated by their race to the right.



It doesn't matter who gets into office this country is NEVER going to recover the loss of face and freedoms that has already been taken away with the advance of the hi-tech era.

The poor will get even poorer, the rich will get even greedier, and the right wingers will come across as standing for something when behind closed doors they really stand for NOTHING at all!

This is my personal perspective of our country that has never given us any good reason to believe they are FOR the majority of us, but are AGAINST us.

Wait and SEE!

In our "two party" system NOTHING will EVER get any better!

Welfare or warfare will still rule the day with unions and wall street being the only ones to prosper

You are correct comrade.