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No one saw Eric Cantor’s primary loss coming — in an endless number of shocked tweets
Washington Post ^ | 6/11/14

Posted on 06/11/2014 12:16:29 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his Republican primary today in a completely befuddling upset that no one saw coming. When people saw that Cantor was behind David Brat, an unknown and underfunded economics professor, in the returns, jaws dropped, and dropped, and dropped until they hit the floor and left everyone so speechless they had no worries of needing to express their shock in more than 140 characters. As was very evident from how Twitter responded.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2014; cantor; establishment; vote
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1 posted on 06/11/2014 12:16:29 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Washington thought they owned the seat. The people who do own it thought better.


2 posted on 06/11/2014 12:17:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama testing their new election software rigging techniques???


3 posted on 06/11/2014 12:20:50 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

watch the rats desert the sinking ship


4 posted on 06/11/2014 12:23:18 PM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Cantor was Ubama’s best friend. Cantor organized an amnesty rally at his campaign headquarters for election night with hundreds of La Raza protesters. They were going to march to victory, but Cantor’s defeat squashed that.


5 posted on 06/11/2014 12:24:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I saw that.

If Cantor DID set up that make-shift amnesty protest at his “celebratory” election night speech, then he is a bigger POS then most of us believed.


6 posted on 06/11/2014 12:32:54 PM PDT by Aurorales (I will not be ridiculed into silence!)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

It’s posts like this that make me lose sleep.


7 posted on 06/11/2014 12:33:13 PM PDT by M1911A1
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

William F. Buckley was once running for Mayor of New York City, on the Conservative ticket. Someone asked him, “What would you do first, if you are elected?”

Buckley’s reply: “Demand a recount.”

Maybe Dave Brat should demand a recount.

Just to cram this up a little further.


8 posted on 06/11/2014 12:34:35 PM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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To: Aurorales
He's an even bigger POS than that.

Or should I say "former POS?"

9 posted on 06/11/2014 12:35:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cantor was Ubama’s best friend. Cantor organized an amnesty rally at his campaign headquarters for election night with hundreds of La Raza protesters. They were going to march to victory, but Cantor’s defeat squashed that.

Ok, I’ll bite...... rainy here and dreary, so is my head, perhaps. haa haa. Somehow, I don’t put anything past them.


10 posted on 06/11/2014 12:37:05 PM PDT by WaterWeWaitinFor (Would Winston Churchill stand still for all this nonsense? Cruz our new Churchill?)
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To: WaterWeWaitinFor
Cantor cut his concession speech short and scurried out there like a weasel because he knew the protesters were coming. The only way he could know that is if he coordinated with them.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cantor+%22Casa+de+Virginia+%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb

11 posted on 06/11/2014 12:41:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: SoFloFreeper
There's just too much money in politics.

All Cantor had was a paltry $5 million, while Brat had almost $200 thousand!

Who has that kind of money? The Koch Brothers must be behind this!

12 posted on 06/11/2014 12:46:17 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh well... I’m sure the GOP will get behind Brat 1,000% for the win — just like we’re supposed to get behind whoever the GOP foists up as their candidate.


13 posted on 06/11/2014 12:47:12 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Doesn't it make you wonder what else these supposed "betters" don't see?

-PJ

14 posted on 06/11/2014 12:47:51 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I believe that the results from his primary are a preview of what is to come. The DBM and RINOS have their vision and predictions of what is to come but the American people have their own plan. It would be fitting based on our the history. We are a free people. And these free people are fed up with the blah, blah, blah. We take matters into our own hands. The sleeping dog(our moral and spiritual majority) is awake and alive and well. Alinskyites and leftist/communist/socialist forces in our country beware. The day of reckoning for your conscientious attempt to dismantle this republic is around the corner. The ends that you believe justify the means will not be what you are expecting.


15 posted on 06/11/2014 12:58:06 PM PDT by Revival b4 Destruction
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To: SoFloFreeper
So Cantor is now giving us a lecture on "What's Right With Washington."

This guy is unbelievable.

16 posted on 06/11/2014 1:42:26 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Cantor was Ubama’s best friend. Cantor organized an amnesty rally at his campaign headquarters for election night with hundreds of La Raza protesters. They were going to march to victory, but Cantor’s defeat squashed that.

I have to laugh at the RINO's that fall for the lamestream media/dem/prog/lib/DC culture's narrative on immigration/amnesty. The left puts up and promotes a group like La Raza and that is supposed to represent all Hispanic Americans and the push for amnesty. I can tell you from a personal experience, they do not represent me. In fact, I've read where Hispanics, who are legal Americans, oppose amnesty, 2 to 1. La Raza is just another radical lefist group, much like what has taken over the democrat party.

People here understand this but people like Cantor, fell for the deception, hook, line, and sinker and it cost him and rightly so for supporting a foreign invasion. The lame stream media is much to blame for pushing this narrative that so many in DC fall for. Hopefully this is a wake up call for them but I guess we'll see. They need to see the LSM is way too much an enemy of America, especially to our freedoms. The next step to preserving the Constitution and our freedoms, is the defeat of the lame stream media in this country and that is to continue to expose their ideological corruption.

CGato

17 posted on 06/11/2014 2:02:45 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Cantor organized an amnesty rally at his campaign headquarters for election night with hundreds of La Raza protesters.

Holy smokes...
18 posted on 06/11/2014 2:11:43 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

First RINO to fall—He will not be the last. The Revenge of the Tea Party or “The Tea Party Strikes Back!” Its a grass roots thing and its like a grass fire—growing and sweeping across the land. GOP better watch out—turn right or become extinct.


19 posted on 06/11/2014 2:15:21 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: M1911A1

Just sharing my own insomnia techniques.. sorry.


20 posted on 06/11/2014 3:55:55 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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