Just in case there's still anybody who doesn't grasp what absolute and utter poison support for amnesty is with the GOP grassroots, listen up and pay attention:
In the most stunning upset of the midterm election season, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was crushed in the Virginia Republican primary Tuesday by little-known tea party-backed challenger Dave Brat.
With 100% of the vote counted, Brat had 55.5% to Cantor's 44.5%.
Truthfully? The winner needs to change his surname. Badly.
Why? Because most of his arguments were - how shall I put this diplomatically? - lame:
Brat, an economics professor who's never run for public office, has been a relentless critic of the better-financed and far-better-known Cantor — who had been considered a potential future House speaker — for spending too much time in Washington and losing touch with his conservative base at home.
Cantor has been House Majority Leader for three and a half years. House Majority Leaders tend to spend a lot of time in Washington. It's kind of their job. Besides which, it's a meaningless generality. What difference does it make if your rep spends a lot of his time in Washington if he's doing the job he was elected to do when he's there?
Brat said, however, that he did not feel the race was "a contest between the tea party and the Republicans," adding: "I ran on the Republican principles."
That's funny; so did Cantor. Which is kind of obvious in a Republican primary. Although "spends too much time in Washington" doesn't sound like any "Republican principle" I've ever heard. Besides, I thought "Republicans" were "part of the problem" because that party had "moved so far left". Which would suggest, from a TP standpoint, that running on "Republican principles" wouldn't be such a hot idea, even in a "Republican" primary.
Oops, got carried away with my quotation marks. What can I say, Costco had a sale.
Well, heck, this was Bratty's first race, I guess. I can hardly wait for his middle-of-the-night five minute floor soliloquys, seeing as how he's running against one of his fellow academics and political "virgins" in the general - in a "Republican" district.
"If you go door-to-door knocking, the American people know the country is headed in the wrong direction," Brat told Hannity.
Indeed, it is. Has been for seven and a half years, or the last time the proto-Tea Party stabbed the GOP in the back. How that's any of Eric Cantor's responsibility is more than a little baffling.
Though Brat hit Cantor hard on his support for immigration reform, he said that wasn't the only issue in the race.
Yes, it was. Endless flirtation with amnesty is what makes the Stupid Party stupid. Endless waves of self-delusion about "building a permanent Republican majority on the votes of Hispanics" based on the even bigger delusion that all Hispanics monolithically want the southern border erased, and refusing to connect that dot with the other one - that Democrats also want amnesty based on real-world demographic and cultural evidence that it would hand them a permanent majority - has driven the conservative grassroots totally bugbleep. How many times do we have to screech and bellow, "!#$%, no!"? Yet every few years, here it comes again. Tonight, the Republican voters of Virginia's Seventh Congressional District said, "%^&*, no!" to Eric Cantor because of it. Or "mev'yap" in the original Klingon.
Perhaps the message will now finally get across to the other powers that be:
Fox News Political Editor Chris Stirewalt said Brat's election means comprehensive immigration reform is "dead meat."
Just so. Right? John Boehner can read tea leaves the size of solar sails, can't he?
Won't he?
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