Eric Cantor - "A+" Rated and NRA-PVF Endorsed

[Liberty-or-Death]

Just to make it known ... Liberty-or-Death, just like Patrick Henry, is male.

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[Repeater]

Are Virginia gun owners ANTI-Semitic?

For us, that's a stupid question.

For Elites, maybe not:

Does anyone outside the media think Cantor’s Judaism cost him the election?

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), who has been elected to Congress from Virginia’s 7th congressional district six times and who served as the Republican Majority Leader since 2011, is Jewish. This, some in the vaunted political class have convinced themselves, was recently discovered by a host of rabid tea partiers who descended like locusts on the polls on Tuesday where they vented their chauvinism. Even if Cantor’s Judaism was not the key reason for his downfall, those predisposed to lend this theory credence suggest it remains the “elephant in the room.”

“Mr. Cantor, who dreamed of becoming the first Jewish speaker of the House, was culturally out of step with a redrawn district that was more rural, more gun-oriented and more conservative,” read a report in The New York Times summarizing the analysis of Cook Political Report analyst David Wasserman.

“Part of this plays into his religion,” Wasserman told The Times. “You can’t ignore the elephant in the room.”

Why? Apparently, those rural bumpkins reapportioned into Cantor’s district did.

After some searching, I found Wasserman's original report; here it is:

VA-07: In Shocker, Cantor Loses Primary

By David Wasserman, June 10, 2014

In one of the biggest House primary earthquakes of all time, GOP House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor lost renomination tonight to Randolph Macon College economics professor Dave Brat, 55 percent to 45 percent. Private polling taken in the last several weeks showed Cantor well ahead, but the race obviously closed quickly in the final stages.

Cantor's leadership position, unwillingness to prolong last October's government shutdown, far-fetched attacks on Brat, and stylistic clash with Virginia's gun-owning, very conservative 7th CD all played a role in the "perfect storm" of base anger that engulfed him. These were problems all of Cantor's money and more couldn't really solve.

The button-down Cantor was also never a perfect fit for the 7th CD. Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the House, ran strongest tonight in his white-collar home base of Henrico County and the city of Richmond, but the 7th CD is full of much more evangelical Tea Party oriented areas like Hanover County where Cantor underperformed even in his 2012 primary.

That is so deeply offensive.

 

[Repeater]

Bolling Speaks: It's Time for registration!

Bolling compares Cantor's loss to Cochran's victory: it's the Dem's fault. His "solution" ...

It's time for party registration in Virginia - Who's Choosing Whom?

What do Republicans in Virginia and Mississippi have in common?

No, this is not a joke, it's a serious question.

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In Virginia's 7th Congressional District, tea-party backed challenger Dave Brat defeated Rep. Eric Cantor in the Republican primary on June 10. Brat's victory caught almost everyone by surprise. The question was: How could this have happened?

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Bottom line: Had only Republicans voted in Virginia's 7th Congressional District primary, Eric Cantor would have won the election by a comfortable margin.

Hilarious. And WRONG. But wait - there's more:

Virginia and Mississippi have something else in common. Neither state allows voter registration by political party. This also needs to be changed. ... Had voting been limited to Republicans, Cantor would have won in Virginia and McDaniel would have won in Mississippi.

Perhaps Bolling would do well to compare Ray Allen to Haley Barbour.

 

[Blk97F150]

Another 'establishment Republican' who is completely out of touch with what is going on around him.

Adding: Had Virginia used 'party registration' and Cantor got thrown out anyway.... I wonder what spin/excuse they would use then?

 

[Repeater]

Cantor will resign: Last Day - August 18th

Good-Bye:

Eric Cantor quitting Congress Aug. 18

Rep. Eric Cantor says he will resign from Congress on Aug. 18 and has requested a special election to replace him, according to a report late Thursday.

The Virginia Republican told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that he has called on Gov. Terry McAuliffe to set up a special election for his 7th Congressional District seat so that his replacement can begin immediately after the election and not when the 114th Congress starts in January.

Cantor previously said he would serve his full term.

“I want to make sure that the constituents in the 7th District will have a voice in what will be a very consequential lame-duck session,” Cantor told the Times-Dispatch. “That way he will also have seniority, and that will help the interests of my constituents [because] he can be there in that consequential lame-duck session,” he added.

Cantor lost his seat in a shocking primary upset to political novice Dave Brat.

Now we have to make sure the right professor gets elected.