Posted on 06/10/2014 1:02:26 PM PDT by PoloSec
Now it’s House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s turn to try and fend off a Tea Party-backed challenger.
The Virginia Republican congressman is facing an aggressive Republican primary opponent in Tuesday's election who has latched onto the increasingly hot-button issue of immigration to batter the incumbent GOP leader.
Dave Brat, an unheralded economics professor and novice politician, is accusing the seven-term Virginia congressman of supporting immigration legislation that would give “amnesty” to millions of people living illegally in the United States. And he has more recently argued that Cantor’s support for legal status for children who have illegally entered the country has fueled the problem of children from Central America pouring across the southern border, creating a humanitarian crisis.
"Once you announced that kids are welcome, they're going to head in," Brat told Breitbart News on Sunday.
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I have come to the conclusion that it is collusion with the “enemy” (RAT party) on the part of the GOPe...nothing more, nothing less. They are complicit in all of this based on their INACTION in upholding the Constitution and our laws.
Cowardice doesn’t really explain it since that wouldn’t affect the entire Congress (I hope).
IMO, anyone who supports or endorses any GOPe for any reason, even the most inane reason of “lesser evil”, is not a Conservative...
I completely agree. they are provably not conservative when they try to empower RINOs over actual conservatives.
There are no excuses.
Well, they’re certainly complicit. The thing to remember though is that deceivers usually use half truths. Despondency for example. I would be the first to agree that our electoral system is a sham, it locks out conservatives, and in most cases it’s not worth participating in. However, the despondency tricksters take that down the road of...so you should give up, crawl under a rock, and die. I would argue almost the exact opposite.
Once you’ve had a door slammed shut in your face, that gives you the opportunity to look at other doors you might have missed in your zeal. I’m obviously a big proponent of the conservative enclave strategy. There are some other strategies that aren’t so bad. So elections are a sham. So what? That doesn’t excuse us from trying something else.
+I am utterly convinced that we are headed for a collapse. MAYBE a balkanization at best. But I also believe in fighting for what I believe in to TRY preventing that outcome first.
I want to know what the hell happened to Freepdom in such a short time. I was here at the beginning. A 98er. I remember when EVERYONE here believed in conservatism. Now?
All one need do is see how far astray the political Right has gone when you have so called conservatives not only fighting to back RINOs at all, but ATTACKING conservatives that refuse to follow them into liberalism.
It aint just here by any means but FR is the furthest right of the right. And if we collectively are going squish, then we are infiltrated and headed for said collapse. Because there is no one beyond us willing to take the political steps needed...electing conservatives/purging RINOs...to stop it.
Cantor was always a RINO, we just hadn't noticed until he became part of the majority.
So you think 30 or 40 million illegals, who would never vote for a constitutionalist is not a problem?
Those idiots are basically useful idiots to the left.
Balkanization and collapse are not mutually exclusive concepts. To wit, the Balkans. Personally I see both coming eventually. Whether I like it or not. The question is the sequence and where you should position yourself to be.
I think that the difference between when I started posting and now is a lot of folks who are obvious operatives are running amok. I also find it a less tolerant place for certain flavors of conservative. Libertarians in particular. I think that’s a mistake, especially for those on the more socially conservative side of libertarianism which FR tends to attract. This is not a friendly place for them, in spite of the fact that they agree with the more classic conservatives on virtually everything.
Shucks, I remember when everyone here thought GW was a conservative.
There's NO arguement about the threat and danger the $4 trillion government and the Obamocrats are to our free constitutional republic.
The Right can fracture on amnesty but they would be stupid to do so. It's exactly what the Left wants. One thing the Left does NOT want, is for the Right to finally get smart and focus on what the Right can unequivocally unite for:
1) taking down Obama in his attempts to utterly take down the Constitution against his oath and contrary to his right to continue in office
2) cutting government by at least 80% (=$800 billion, still too big but it' a start) and taxes and
3) unleashing the wealth-producing power of the free market economy which is driven by VOLUNTARY cooperation.
All very good points but you can’t win a single unemployed, Low Information Voter with them, you can however, get them to figure out that an illegal probably has their job.
It really is like rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. You may lose some chairs and some voters, but it's time to quit pussy-footing around with this freaking problem that imminently threatens to destroy our free way of life. NOW is the time.
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