Cantor Says Rhetoric Harmful, Calls for Inclusion (criticizes some Rush Limbaugh comments)

Bloomberg on Yahoo ^ | 11/6/09 | Lorraine Woellert

[rlmorel]

Well said.

[NormsRevenge]

the stain of mccain is tough to remove from some minds .. you have to forgive those less tolerant or gullible.. it’s a dirty playing field.. a lot of mud gets flung.

[rlmorel]

I made this animated gif back in August...

[NormsRevenge]

wasn’t so long ago..

EXCLUSIVE: Cantor says GOP is no longer ‘relevant’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/17/cantor-says-gop-is-no-longer-relevant/

Stephen Dinan

GLEN ALLEN, Va.

Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, poised to ascend to House Republicans’ No. 2 leader this week, said the Republican Party in Washington is no longer “relevant” to voters and must stop simply espousing principles. Instead, it must craft real solutions to health care and the economy.

“Where we have really fallen down is, we have lacked the ability to be relevant to people’s lives. Let’s set aside the last eight years, and our falling down in living up to expectations of what we said we were going to do,” Mr. Cantor told The Washington Times in his district office outside of Richmond. “It’s the relevancy question.”

As chief deputy whip, Mr. Cantor, 45, was the logical choice to move up when Republicans’ current whip, Rep. Roy Blunt, stepped aside - something Mr. Blunt announced days after Republicans lost at least 20 seats in the House.

A week before Wednesday’s leadership elections, Mr. Cantor offered a bleak assessment of his party and where it’s fallen: technology, preparedness for political realities, such as the next round of redistricting, and pursuing its ideals.

Most of all, he said, Republicans have been content to offer principles, rather than concrete solutions. Voters, he said, have punished them for it.

[sentient]

Just a tad?? He clearly was not talking oil in the drill here, drill now debate....

[Zhang Fei]

Typical RINO hack pap. The literal translation is: "Conservatism can't win."

1984's electorate isn't today's electorate. Today's electorate is less white (thanks to Kennedy's "We-are-the-world" immigration reform in the 60's, Reagan's amnesty and Clinton's and Bush II's open borders policies), less conservative and less "American" (thanks to the multicultural ethos espoused by the media elites). People say they're conservative, but 80's conservatives wouldn't have turfed Virginia's George Allen for saying "macaca".

[gleeaikin]

I hate to nit pick, but I’m afraid that the Ft. Hood murderer came in under the Bush administration. While both Virginia and NJ went strongly Republican, I am not sure that this was Republican strength, so much as failures on the part of the Dem candidates. Particularly in VA, it is said the big victory was partly the result of large numbers of black Obama voters staying home this time. Also when Dems tried to make an issue about the Republican candidate’s college thesis comments about the proper role of woman, the Republicans got away with saying well this was just the talk of a college student. The Dems failed to point out that he was 37 years old at the time.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

“The only time that you would have a chance to get an insertion in the bill is to talk to a Democrat.”
Egads these people are idiots. Did it ever occur to Cantor that perhaps the Democrats won't really insert anything in the bill unless they 1) feel that it's harmless or 2) they can negate it some other way? And, if you don't "insert" anything you're not obligated to vote for it.

BINGO!

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Enough Boehner and Can’tor. It's time for Mike Pence to lead the GOP.

Do remember Pence's amnesty "compromise?" Sounds like amnesty light with an alternate (but still expensive) bureaucracy. I am hoping he will outgrow his RINO urges WRT amnesty.

Pence's measure would create private worker placement agencies called Ellis Island Centers, licensed by the federal government to match approved guest workers with jobs that cannot be filled by Americans — a variation on an idea offered by Bush back in January 2004. U.S. employers will engage the private agencies and request guest workers, Pence says. In a matter of days, the private agencies will match guest workers with jobs, perform a health screening, fingerprint them and provide the appropriate information to the FBI and Homeland Security so that a background check can be performed, and provide the guest worker with a visa granted by the State Department.

[RoadTest]

“Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, said his party needs to be inclusive “

That’s precisely why I don’t want to be a “Republican”.