Eric Cantor: House GOP has Mitt-mentum

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You can't make this stuff up.

Despite hesitation from some conservatives about Mitt Romney’s candidacy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Thursday that House Republicans are “excited” about rallying behind the former Massachusetts governor in his bid to oust President Barack Obama.

Cantor, who endorsed Romney in advance of Virginia’s primaries in March, called the presumptive GOP nominee a “true, results-driven conservative” who will provide voters with a clear contrast in November against Obama.

“Our conference is excited about coalescing behind Mitt Romney,” Cantor told POLITICO’s Mike Allen at the Playbook Breakfast. “I think that Republicans, after having gone through a primary process that’s been pretty rigorous … I think we’re now at a point where members in our conference are satisfied that Mitt Romney is going to be a terrific candidate for us and are now getting behind his candidacy and his policies.”

“I want to be there to help Mitt Romney in any way we can … because I believe Mitt Romney is going to be very helpful to our candidates in our House races across the country,” Cantor added.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75349.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Helpful

like a hole in the head, we hope.

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3. I remember "Joementum" as an insult.

Always makes me think of petroleum jelly somehow ...

I suppose Eric wants to suggest "momentum", but that's just ludicrous.

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2. If there is one person in America creepier than Mitt Romney

It's Eric Cantor.

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4. I sure hope Mitt picks Ryan as his VP.

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5. Translation: "I can't wait till President Autopen takes the oath!"

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6. It's not excitement about rallying around Mitt that republicans are feeling

It's relief that the primaries are essentially over. Now they have to move on to making Mitt electable, but there's no excitement to be had - whichever of the remaining 4 won, there was going to be tons of work in hiding their crazy (Paul, Santorum), making them seem human (Newt, Romney), etc. Now they at least know which way to take their game plan.

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[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Not only that

but now they have their "vessel" to pour all of their hatred of President Obama into and to unite around in the hopes of installing their presence back into the WH.

Excitement? Eh? Probably not so much. The establishment has been eager to have the primaries over for some time. Every time Romney had a good primary day, his surrogates and members of the establishment were quick to pronounce the primary over and encourage everybody to rally around Mitt but somebody- be it Santorum or Gingrich- kept hanging on if for no other reason than to spite the establishment. When Santorum, the most enduring conservative alternative to Romney- dropped out and Newt's checks dried up, it was clear to everybody that there was no real contest any longer and Mitt has all but been nominated at this point. Republicans are surely glad to have all that nastiness behind them. The base's acceptance of Romney doesn't seem complete, however, and he will still need to solidify their support, which will undoubtedly mean that he will have to do some more pandering to their "basest" instincts, which can only help President Obama IMHO.