Posted on 06/12/2014 8:09:05 PM PDT by Din Maker
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans thought they had found an answer for the conservative insurgencies that had toppled unsuspecting incumbents in recent years: Be prepared, be aggressive and be conservative.
The approach had been working pretty well as senior Republicans in the Senate and the House beat back challenges from the right in the primaries. They hoped to shut out Tea Party-allied groups entirely.
Then Senator Thad Cochran was forced into a runoff in Mississippi that opened the door to the possibility of a high-profile Tea Party upset later this month. Now, Representative Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat has battered the door down altogether, giving conservative activists a political scalp of the first magnitude and showing that a populist movement some saw as flagging still has the power to rattle the establishment.
Mr. Brat was propelled by grass-roots conservative activists and conservative talk radio — typical elements of a Tea Party candidacy — and the Tea Party wing has hailed it as a triumph.
As Republicans absorbed the results on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, some who have already crossed paths with Tea Party challengers this year said they expected that the Cantor loss would provide momentum to Mr. McDaniel and conservative challengers in primaries yet to come in states like Kansas.
Tea Party challengers themselves were more than ready to predict victories ahead. Milton Wolf, who is opposing Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, used the Cantor defeat to take a shot at Mr. Roberts, whom Mr. Wolf has criticized for not owning a home in Kansas and spending most of his time in the Washington area.
“Eric Cantor isn’t the only incumbent from Virginia who is going to lose his primary this year,” Mr. Wolf said in a statement. “On Aug. 5, it’s Pat Roberts’s turn.”
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Ya gotta love this:
“Eric Cantor isn’t the only incumbent from Virginia who is going to lose his primary this year,” Mr. Wolf said in a statement. “On Aug. 5, it’s Pat Roberts’s turn.”
“....incumbent from Virginia.....” Way to go Milt.
Me thinks!
Throw the bums out.
Neither Cochran or Cantor were prepared or conservative. They may have been aggressive, but in their case it seems to work against them.
I hope Colorado recognizes Tom Tancredo is NOT “Tea Party”!!
His 3rd Party Clown act cost us dearly and his candidacy would ruin support for the rest of the ticket in Colorado.
Vote Mike Kopp for Colorado Governor!
Have you ever heard such whining and caterwauling of the like we've heard in the past 2 days? I guess this is the "lamentations of their women" phase...
Music to my ears.
It will; it already HAS!
Me thinks the shock of Cantor’s historic loss has been replaced with
pure fear in the GOPe’s ranks. I can hear then squealing all the way to
the high grass.
“lamentations of their women-folk”
Milton Wolf is an idiot. He claims that Pat Roberts “lives” in Virginia, since, like everyone else who does not represent a State within driving distance, Roberts has a home in Virginia and rents property in Kansas. In addition, Roberts owns another property in Dodge City which he rents out.
Voting?
You stupid backwards Tea Partiers are so dumb.
You should just get the IRS to stack the vote in an election like we on the left do. :)
aaaaaaaaAAAAARRLLLRRLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo - - - -
If the GOP represented the people instead of the GOP and the government there would be no TEA Party.
The Estabiishment Rethugs (commie lites) better get a clue. Lawsuits for freedcom infringement and citizens arrest for the same may be next and they may find themselves in the same jail cells as the commieDems. For one citizen. I have had enough tyranny from both parties.
It other words the GOP views TEA Party types as the true enemy that must vanquished and will pretend to be conservative to do it.
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
Ya Think?
What I think is that Cantor’s loss is going to reverse five years of IRS, DOJ and Mainstream Media intimidation and obstruction.
But that’s just me and what do I know?
Maybe “Milt” won’t be posting anymore of his patients’ XRays on his FB site as a way to assure us KS voters he’s a really good guy, ya think?
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