Ted Cruz’s Staff Seems Pretty Excited That Eric Cantor Lost

Buzzfeed ^ | June 10, 2014, at 6:10 p.m. | Katherine Miller

[SoConPubbie]

Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost in stunning fashion Tuesday night to tea party challenger Dave Brat.

And Sen. Ted Cruz’s staff appears to be pretty celebratory on Twitter in response. The senator and the majority leader have clashed before, most notably over Obamacare. Here are tweets from three top staffers.

Cruz’s speechwriter and senior communications adviser:

Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter Follow

VA #MakesDCListen

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Cruz’s chief of staff:

Chip Roy @chiproytx Follow

Is DC Listening yet? #MakeDCListen

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Cruz’s press secretary, responding to a tweet from Erick Erickson on stories about the “Tea Party dying” in the mainstream media:

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Catherine Frazier @catblackfrazier Follow

@EWErickson wackobird zombies

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[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

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[Tea Party Terrorist]

NYT reports the Cantor campaign spent over $168K on steakhouses, while the Brat campaign spent $200K total.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Good! I am pretty pleased about it too!

[Mountain Mary]

On please, SoCon.

[Graewoulf]

* Close and seal the Southern US Border, all 2,000 + miles of it.

* Cancel NAFTA.

* Abolish all Federal, State and Local Welfare payments to non-citizens of the USA.

* Block all money transfers to Mexico, or other any Country South of our Southern Border.

* Have lunch.

* After lunch, pass and sign Federal Penalty law to anyone who hires an Illegal Alien Invader, with a fine of $1,000 per day per alien.

* String Concertina Wire Holding-Pen Stockades at 100 mile intervals for the gotta-ways.

* Be as hostile to Mexicans as the Mexicans have been to the US Marine held and tortured in Prison by the Mexican Guards for the last two months.

* Hire Greyhound Bus Company to transport Illegal Alien Invaders to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Chain Link Desert Spa near Phoenix, Arizona.

* Have supper.

[2ndDivisionVet]

As am I.

[Ciexyz]

Good news for voters who love this country and want to turn it around.

[SoConPubbie]

Whatttt?????

What did I do????

Really though, sometimes I have to think several times about posting an article because I am not sure how it is going to be taken dependent on your perspective.

[TBP]

Very pleased.

[headstamp 2]

I think what happened tonight was the crack in the dam finally ocurring.

[Enterprise]

[kevao]

while the Brat campaign spent $200K total.

Brat raised $200,000; he spent only $100,000 on this primary. Sounds like a guy I could trust to spend my money carefully.

[Graewoulf]

PING!

[lulu16]

Yes! These Washington types are used to printing money. Good factoid to spread around. On his interview with Hannity tonight, which was excellent, he asked for “funds.” Not afraid to ask for support. Good.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

headstamp 2:" I think what happened tonight was the crack in the dam finally ocurring."

I disagree...
It is not a crack ..., it is the people saying "we don't give a dam about your candidate, the turncoat !"
He got into office as a Tea Party Conservative , and then turned his back on Conservative values,
It was the voters saying FUBO !!

[txhurl]

I worked the 5-2 am shift, came home, fell asleep and woke up to this wondrous news.

We in TX had to live with Cornyn because we didn’t target him with a viable conservative.... it was a horrible example to set and I’m overjoyed the rest of the Nation is waking up and ditching RINOs.

[af_vet_rr]

I think what happened tonight was the crack in the dam finally ocurring.

Only if the RINOs lose control of the House leadership. Cantor may have lost his seat, but nothing says Cantor can't be replaced by another RINO in his leadership post.

Big Business and the liberals running the GOP still have a very vested interest in making things like amnesty happen, so I'd expect we will see a huge push for some kind of amnesty before any replacements take their place in the House.

[I still care]

Love those quotes.

[txhurl]

Brat raised $200,000; he spent only $100,000 on this primary. Sounds like a guy I could trust to spend my money carefully.

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This means the RATS haven’t figured out how to hack midterms with open primaries.