The GOP eats its own

[-Jrabbit]

Eric Cantor lost to a political neophyte running under the Tea Party banner (whatever that is) yesterday. I must admit to being a little shocked. The GOP are usually pretty disciplined about keeping their senior folks (like House Majority Leader!) slotted in.

To those in the area or in the know: Was there a "he's not Christian" whisper campaign, or was it really (as the media would have me believe) just a Tea Party hardliner who pounded Cantor on immigration, being a DC insider, and/or the budget compromise?

Bonus questions: Is Eric Cantor not conservative enough to hold office? Will he now be banished to the think tanks?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-eric-cantor-loses-20140610,0,1218678.story

[Ben Kenobi]

After shoving the **** sandwich of Romney down our throats, it's about time. Payback, *****es.

[-Jrabbit]

Thank you for this reasoned, intelligent response. I will sleep better tonight.

[Ben Kenobi]

Thank you for this reasoned, intelligent response. I will sleep better tonight.

I seem to remember a little turd who got me banned by labeling me a liberal on FR by misquoting posts here.

But gosh, I bet you had nothing to do with that.

I give you points for audacity, JR. Seriously. Was it hard to dig hard enough to find the posts?

[Dinner]

Laura Ingraham, noxious right wing talk radio host, promoted that guy shamelessly on her radio program as she claims Cantor supported "amnesty" for illegals. It, of course, was a bs claim but in a race with only ~10% turn out (~60k out of 600k voters showed up) I guess their smears worked. Not that I will shed a tear for Eric Cantor as the man was a troll.

Also, yes, now that the tea baggers have driven out the last non-Christian Republican in Congress you have to wonder if the fact that the man was Jewish was part of the reason he was targeted.

[Ben Kenobi]

Cantor supported "amnesty" for illegals

Is that the NPR talking point on this loss, Oerdin? With scare quotes around 'amnesty'?

[Dinner]

That was David Brat's talking point, you ignorant twit.

[Ben Kenobi]

That was David Brat's talking point, you ignorant twit.

Brat did the whole 'scare quotes' thing? Seriously. That's been the spin right out of the gate. Cantor's loss doesn't mean people oppose Amnesty! Full steam ahead!

[AAAAAAAAH!]

F*** amnesty, and f*** worthless immigrants like Ben

[Uncle Sparky]

I'm surprised the teabaggers didn't use the usual 'Cantor makes matzo out of Christian babies'... tried and true. It's worked for centuries.

[DinoDoc]

To those in the area or in the know: Was there a "he's not Christian" whisper campaign, or was it really (as the media would have me believe) just a Tea Party hardliner who pounded Cantor on immigration, being a DC insider, and/or the budget compromise?

Immigration as far as I can tell only came up in a big way toward the end of the race. The rest of them seem to have been issues though. This seems like a case of a candidate being arrogant enough not to take a primary seriously which led him to not do the necessary legwork in his district until it was too late.

Hell the one person who I fully expected to loose his primary (Lindsey Graham) is easily going to carry the day because he took it seriously early on and did what he had to do in order to please his constituents.

[H Tower]

Oh good, what passes for the center is going to run far, far away. Cue the insanity worse than before.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm surprised the teabaggers didn't use the usual 'Cantor makes matzo out of Christian babies'... tried and true. It's worked for centuries.

The only people who've made Cantor's faith an issue are the usual liberal dingbats.

[Ben Kenobi]

This seems like a case of a candidate being arrogant enough not to take a primary seriously which led him to not do the necessary legwork in his district until it was too late.

Cantor's stabbed his team in the back before - on the Obamacare house vote, etc. This has been a longstanding pattern for Cantor. It's funny that the GOP is 'eating it's own' by turfing out someone who's been playing for the other team.

It's disappointing with Graham, but districts are easier to fight out than states. It's really all the difference. Cochran may be out in MS as well. Hopefully Miller can win in Alaska and be the Senator.

[Ben Kenobi]

Oh good, what passes for the center is going to run far, far away. Cue the insanity worse than before.

Fewer liberal Chicago delegates won't hurt the republican party. When your party nominates perpetual losers in McCain and Romney, then there's a problem with the party. It's time for some changes.

We've been told that you have to nominate the moderates to win. Well - that's not been happening has it? At some point the correction has to come. If moderation was the answer, McCain would have been president.