“Who wants to bet lesson not learned?”
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor began saying his goodbyes Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was unseated by his tea party opponent in Virginia’s 7th District primary.
“While I may have had a — suffered a personal setback last night, I couldn’t be more optimistic about the future of this country,” he said at a press conference Wednesday.
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Campaigning for Cantor’s job has already begun: Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the majority whip, began lining up support from committee chairs Wednesday. Perhaps most importantly, he has the support of Cantor, who threw his weight behind McCarthy at the press conference.
“I think he’d make an outstanding majority leader,” Cantor said. “I will be backing him with my full support.”
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Members said House Speaker John Boehner sounded like he was choking up while he spoke about the history he shared with his top lieutenant.
“This is a speech I never expected to give,” he said. “I want to start by offering a heartfelt thanks to Eric and his staff for their service to our conference, our institution and our country.”
Quoting Winston Churchill, Boehner advised Cantor to have ‘the courage to continue.”
“He was held in high regard as a leader, so we’re feeling the pain,” said Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., his eyes red.
“A lot of tears. I’ve never seen such grace in all of my life,” said Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., fighting back tears. “He is doing the right thing for the conference.”
“He wants to keep us all united and I just think he is doing a fabulous job and he is going to do well into the future and we all stand behind him.”
Sounds like these elitists would love to have Cantor as Speaker. Do not be surprised if Boner steps down and they try it.
” - - - - Republican voters are not happy with the GOP’s establishment position on amnesty for illegal immigrants and other hot-button issues fracturing the party. - - - “
The above quote, from another (today) FR thread article by author Adrianna Cohen describes the disconnection between the GOP-E leadership and that of the Republican voter.
To her credit, she did not rely on the usual defensive Liberal smokescreen tactic of using Liberal Media Polls based on OPINIONS to magically transform her case into a beyond question “Scientific” Case.
What Ms. Cohen and much of the rest of the Right and Left Stream Media are mis-reporting is that there is a “fracture” in the Republican Party.
The basic assumption of these journalists is that a political party must be monolithic, united, and speak “with one voice.”
Any deviation of opinion within the party is viewed as a danger that must be quickly healed before it becomes, (gasp!), a fracture.
The current Democrat Party is a perfect end example of what today’s Journalists view as normal political party behavior.
The reality is that The GOP-E Leadership has chosen to arrogantly ISOLATE itself from its voters.
The triple Presidential losses of Dole, McCain and Romney has curiously served to strengthen the GOP-E Leadership’s resolve to isolate themselves even more from their former and present Republican voters.
While the GOP-E Leadership has been busy appeasing, caving-in and otherwise “marching to the drum beat” of Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi, they have marched themselves into ever-increasing isolation.
After 4 + years of handing Obama a blank check, ignoring all illegal bypasses of Congress and caving-in to whatever Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi demand, the GOP-E Leadership has effectively isolated itself in the eyes of the average Republican Voter.