General News Eric Cantor loses primary to Tea Party challenger

Pretty surprised by Cantor losing.

One of the few wins for the Tea Party.

 

I always thought Cantor was a world class D-Bag but the idea that he is too moderate to keep his seat is genuinely frightening.

 

Boehner will remain speaker.

 

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I bet some GOP House people try to make someone like Trey Gowdy speaker and throw Boehner under the bus.

 

Like Bill Maher said, I'd love to see House Republicans try to impeach Obama so he can beat them a third time.

 

:roflmao:

 

At least it's more of a fair game for Jack Trammel now, this race & Grimes v Mitch are the races to watch!

 

Actually one difference....Democrat Tom Foley lost his seat and position in party leadership because he was defeated by a Republican opponent in the 1994 GOP wave. Democrats didn't want him to lose his position.

Eric Cantor was kicked out of his seat by his own party, he lost in a freaking primary, the Republicans wanted their own leader booted out.

The Republicans are eating their own.

And it's pretty scary when one considers that Eric Cantor was probably the furthest right-wing and most Tea Party-friendly member of the House Republican leadership and still couldn't come close to winning his party's primary.

 

Much of it also has to do with the fact that Cantor pretty much became out of touch with his district and wasn't visiting it much. As CNN said, Cantor left everything to his campaign consultants and didn't care much about campaign field work. You can have millions of dollars more than your opponent as Cantor did, but if you suck at the ground and grassroots game you're going to lose. It was also really dumb of Cantor to use negative ads against a primary opponent no one even knew about.

Textbook of how to destroy a campaign.

 

The only other thing he could have done to make it worse it put his foot in his mouth and bite it clean off (like Todd Akin did in 2012).

 

Wow, the Republicans are veering out more and more into far-right crazy-paranoia-land. So much for a more inclusive, moderate party!

I really hope they don't gain too much power; this would really be a setback for gay rights, reproductive rights, science, education, stopping pollution,. income inequality and so many other things.

But perhaps this is the last gasp of the old, white, xenophobic Bible thumpers...

 

my parents are happy about this
i don't get why these people enjoy being almost as crazy as they can (eg. open-carry gun activists, we get its legal, but that doesn't mean you can terrorize people)

 

Wasn't Eric Cantor already in the tea party? Besides, they're both tea-party members so there's no difference. At least they'll choose a different leader this time. I hope it's a RINO this time.

 

Not bloody likely, the primary loss of Cantor will scare the GOP leadership to move as far to the right as possible.

 

Dave Brat is FAR from being a RINO.