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Eric Cantor knew before the election about Patraeus Scandal - Did not go public
http://www.gopusa.com ^ | November 14, 2012 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 11/14/2012 1:45:09 PM PST by NKP_Vet

A week before the election, an FBI whistleblower went to a Republican member of Congress with explosive details about a national security scandal that could have stopped President Obama’s re-election campaign dead in its tracks. But the potentially devastating “October Surprise” was hushed up by Republicans.

Although all the details are not yet available and new disclosures are coming every day, it appears that the scandal involves the CIA director leaking classified information to his mistress and the FBI not holding David Petraeus accountable for his immoral and illegal conduct. In short, it is the worst scandal of the Obama Administration and makes the third-rate burglary in the Watergate scandal look minor by comparison.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; benghazi; cantor; petraeus; virginia
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To: newzjunkey

Mitt Romney proved to me in this campaign that he is an extremely fine, decent, honorable man.

He would not stoop to Obama’s gutter tactics.

Sadly that also confirms my fear about him that he was too nice a guy for the task at hand.


21 posted on 11/14/2012 2:17:54 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: what's up

Cantor did the right thing by passing it to the FBI Director who may have been unaware that Kelley and the agent were fiddling around.

If he thought it was credible to pass onto the FBI, why didn’t he pass it
Onto his committee chairmen? Failed leadership.


22 posted on 11/14/2012 2:19:39 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Political Junkie Too

Interesting possibility.

I would think that Benghazigate would have to be FAR worse than we thought for several dozen electors to change their designated vote from Obama to Romney.

I think they’d rather let Obama be impeached and let Biden take over, than vote for a Republican.


23 posted on 11/14/2012 2:21:06 PM PST by kidd
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To: NKP_Vet

Don’t be ridiculous.


24 posted on 11/14/2012 2:21:37 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: tennmountainman
If he thought it was credible to pass onto the FBI, why didn’t he pass it Onto his committee chairmen?

Probably thought the FBI agent was a 2-bit lowlife who needed to be reprimanded by the FBI Head.

How was Cantor to know how credible the shirtless agent was?

25 posted on 11/14/2012 2:24:06 PM PST by what's up
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To: Daveinyork

I don’t think I made my point clear.

The scandal has, to date, been a Petraus scandal, not an Obama scandal.

I strongly suspect that it will be a huge Obama scandal IF everything comes out, but you will notice that is a big IF.

Watergate would been no big deal if the media had been intent on protecting Nixon.


26 posted on 11/14/2012 2:34:18 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: NKP_Vet

If Eric did, he should be FIRED and let the TEA PARTY run the house!!


27 posted on 11/14/2012 2:39:12 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (More Republicans stayed home then the margin of victory of O's Win...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Romney was a much better candidate than his campaign.

Unfortunately, Obama’s campaign was much better than Obama.

This is the bottom line for 2012.


28 posted on 11/14/2012 2:39:54 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: mwl8787

Great post.

I totally underestimated Axlegrease, Pluffy, and Gibbs.

I figured 2008 was just a special set of circumstances and they lucked out.

Maybe the Romney folks made the same mistake.


29 posted on 11/14/2012 2:42:33 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's bankruptcy: 2016)
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To: Sherman Logan

True, but one benefit of a mushrooming scandal would be to help slow down or kill the worst of an aggressive 2nd term agenda.

Cripple him. Lame duck.


30 posted on 11/14/2012 2:43:25 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: nascarnation

Everybody made the same mistake. Romney himself was convinced he had won on election day. He performed extremely well, perhaps brilliantly under the circumstances.

Nobody knew Obama’s team had been going block-by-block for 4 years.


31 posted on 11/14/2012 2:46:52 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: newzjunkey

That he was liberal wasn’t anyone’s fault but his own.


32 posted on 11/14/2012 2:48:51 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The electors of the Electoral College are all political hacks. They get the job based on party loyalty. No way that they abandon Obama. If technically freed to vote their conscience, they would vote for Obama anyway.

That is the reality of the situation.

My question is simply this: Is Petraeus going to paint a picture of a lawless president who uses mob tactics to topple military careers and get ambassadors killed just to save his own job? If so, how does one shame an Elector into not endorsing that tactic as the way to win the White House?

How do we shame anyone who thinks they can publicly endorse a blackmailer and career ruiner for president?

This is all predecated on Patraeus testifying that Obama was behind it all, or was so incompetent and disengaged that he let others run the White House for him while he played figurehead, and then hid from the consequences until after the election.

The testimony has to be so bad that even Democrats won't be willing to certify the election to such a bastard.

If Petraeus doesn't go there and instead backs up everything that Obama said, then this idea is all washed up.

-PJ

33 posted on 11/14/2012 3:08:14 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
“The electors ... are all political hacks.” True. But please keep in mind they will all have some moments of fame as members of the last Electoral College. If you think that we'll have elections in 2016, I have a bridge in Brooklyn...
34 posted on 11/14/2012 3:16:50 PM PST by masadaman
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To: Sherman Logan
Not likely. If Patraeus had resigned a week before the election, it is not likely it would have made a bit of difference.

It might have made a difference if he hadn't went before congress and lied his @ss off.

Honorable and liar don't belong in the same sentence.

35 posted on 11/14/2012 3:21:24 PM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: Political Junkie Too
The testimony has to be so bad that even Democrats won't be willing to certify the election to such a bastard.

Wishful thinking, if Rape, BJ's from interns in the Oval, and lying under oath did not phase them, just what do you think it would take?

36 posted on 11/14/2012 3:29:25 PM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...
Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


Benghazi Index

37 posted on 11/14/2012 3:41:55 PM PST by MestaMachine (TREASON!!!!)
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To: itsahoot
Apparently, not even the murder of an ambassador and sacking of an embassy is enough, when it happens to Democrats.

-PJ

38 posted on 11/14/2012 3:47:45 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

It can’t be just Petraeus word. He also must have a few “blue dresses” to back himself up.


39 posted on 11/14/2012 4:02:37 PM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
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To: NKP_Vet

I wonder if Romney was told. He backed off the Benghazi issue for some reason. What was he told?


40 posted on 11/14/2012 4:27:50 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (christian.bahits.com)
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