Posted on 12/08/2013 5:41:24 AM PST by Timber Rattler
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor pleaded for Republican unity here Saturday as he prodded his party to offer more solutions that make voters feel like they have their backs on “kitchen table” issues.
The congressman, who represents a district around Richmond, told about 500 party activists during a lunch at The Homestead resort that the GOP does not need to compromise its core principles.
“If we want to win, we must begin to offer solutions to the problems that people face every day,” he said. “We have not done this recently and it has allowed the Democrats to take power, it has allowed them to pursue their politics of partisan division, and even worse … it has allowed them to enact their leftist agenda.”
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“If we show them we’re with them, we can win elections,” he said.
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Cantor???? What a putz. No balls is right!
Let's review:
OUR CORE PRINCIPLES (TEA Party)
FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY means not overspending, and not burdening our children and grandchildren with our bills. In the words of Thomas Jefferson: “the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity [is] swindling futurity on a large scale.” A more fiscally responsible government will take fewer taxes from our paychecks.
CONSTITUTIONALLY LIMITED GOVERNMENT means power resides with the people and not with the government. Governing should be done at the most local level possible where it can be held accountable. America’s founders believed that government power should be limited, enumerated, and constrained by our Constitution. Tea Party Patriots agree. The American people make this country great, not our government.
FREE MARKET ECONOMICS made America an economic superpower that for at least two centuries provided subsequent generations of Americans more opportunities and higher standards of living. An erosion of our free markets through government intervention is at the heart of America’s current economic decline, stagnating jobs, and spiraling debt and deficits. Failures in government programs and government-controlled financial markets helped spark the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Further government interventions and takeovers have made this Great Recession longer and deeper. A renewed focus on free markets will lead to a more vibrant economy creating jobs and higher standards of living for future generations.
The GOP-e has abandoned these traditional conservative principles and aligned itself with the ILL-ANNOY model of "The Combine", that is, above all else, protect centralized power regardless of party affiliation, go along to get along, and crossing the aisle is a one-way street of compromising your principles and allowing your opponent to define you.
The GOP needs to be purged of the compromisers.
No sale.
it might be a good idea, Cantor, if you believed in those so called solutions.
A convincing case that it is none other than Eric Cantor.
To have unity you need a common goal. People who call themselves republican don’t have one. The people who run the party believe in a large activist Federal Government. That is undeniable. 3/4 of the people who support the party do not.
Where’s the unity supposed to come from?
“Eric Cantor calls for GOP unity” Tell your GOPe pals to stop attacking TEA party patriots and maybe we can have unity. But of course since Tokyo Rove tells you what to do that will never happen.
Right there, fundamental disagreement with that. There will be NO SOLUTIONS to ANYTHING from Washington D.C. If that's the coure idea of the Republican party then I am no Republican.
We need a party that takes as it's motto Reagan's declaration "The Federal Government isn't the answer, it's the problem".
I think America is ready to listen to that again.
Until then, FUEC.
Sure, like comprehensive (illegal) immigration "reform".
Hey, I heard that....On a bloopers record in the 60's.
Some Brit's radio show, for the children.
No solutions EVER come from DC
Only more taxation and attacks on freedom
Cantor is an idiot
“The tin-ears and hypocrisy of these backstabbing GOP-E hacks is astounding. “
gope is taking lessons from obama-—It’s my way or the highway ‘cause YOU are the ones causing trouble.
Cantor’s ‘core’ reminds me of the old saying ‘it’s rotten to the core’.
Mr. niteowl77
> “If we want to win, we must begin to offer solutions to the problems that people face every day,” he said. “We have not done this recently and it has allowed the Democrats to take power, it has allowed them to pursue their politics of partisan division, and even worse … it has allowed them to enact their leftist agenda.”
> “If we show them we’re with them, we can win elections,” he said.
Well Eric old boy, you’ve been offering democrat lite solutions and there’s already a democrat party for that.
So you’ve really only got a few options old boy, either defect to the democrats or get behind conservatives. But before conservatives let you into their ring, you are going to have to prove you can walk the walk and not just talk the talk. I strongly suggest you read FR at least 1 or 2 hours everyday.
During the mid-1950s, Kermit Schafer began compiling several albums of alleged boners, fluffs, and outtakes from radio and TV into his popular Bloopers series and issuing them in record jackets deceptively claiming that the events contained within were "authentic."
Treadwell describes an example found on the first record:
Uncle Don got his place in the sun on Volume 1 — after a few words from the announcer which set the stage, Don was cut in saying his usual "Good-night" to the kiddies. There was a moment of silence, and then a muffled voice off mike muttered, "That oughta hold the little bastards." Only it wasn't Don's voice!
One problem with Schafer's "authenticity": he didn't distinguish between actual audio clips and recreations of broadcast events that were widely believed to have occurred, but for which no recording existed."
Sounds about right, but I thought it was funny when I heard it in the 60's and it obviously got prominent placement in my mental meme inventory.
I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that I know very little about EC, except what I read here on FR.
His words are dead on. His actions evidently don't matchup, based on comments up thread, and it's actions that matters.
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