"Huge loss for Eric Cantor...as his top lieutenant Linwood Cobb is toppled"

[lowkell]

Last edited Sat May 10, 2014, 04:10 PM - Edit history (1)

Ruh roh, looks like Eric Can'tor has a little problem with the Tea Party in his district. Such a sad, sad, sad shame.

http://bluevirginia.us/diary/11530/huge-loss-for-eric-cantoras-his-top-lieutenant-linwood-cobb-is-toppled

UPDATE: Great quote from a Republican activist and blogger - "The lunatics are now running the asylum down in the 7th...The folks down there consider Cantor a liberal. That's why he got booed...And that's insane." ROFLMAO

[NV Whino]

1. Is it too early to dance?

[LoisB]

2. No.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Yes...

We can dance in November if/when Cantor goes down. I hope it happens, but still a lot of work to do. It is nice to hear the TPers doing some of it for us.

[NV Whino]

4. Maybe a half dance

Just to tide us over until November.

Three I'd love to see go down (in order of importance). McConnell, Cantor, Boner.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Add Bachmann to that list...

Just because.

Hopefully she's in jail by then.

[NV Whino]

6. Works for me.

[BlueMTexpat]

9. Perhaps she will not be in jail,

but I thought that she was not running for re-election this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann

So at least part of your wish should come true.

[Mass]

7. Yes. No democrat is running in this district.

As for Brat, he is totally crazy (he makes Cantor look sane).

So, really no ready to dance. It goes from bad to worse.

[TeamPooka]

8. I'll settle for sending Cantor's fast track ambitions down the tubes.

[BrotherIvan]

10. Me too

That guy is the epitome of Cassius' "lean and hungry look." He is far too wiley and is building his power to where he will be deadly. I'd take a crazy TPer to split the Repub vote any day.

[malthaussen]

11. If the district's uncontested, then the schadenfreude comes into play.

However insane Cantor's replacement might be, he's still just one voice in the asylum. But the pleasure that would be derived from seeing Cantor cry...

-- Mal

[elleng]

13. Right, sadly,

as our hard fight against him last time. Think Dem PARTY remembers Wayne Powell??? http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/can-wayne-powell-beat-eric-cantor

[CatWoman]

12. and then there's this:

Eric Cantor Booed, Heckled By Tea Partiers In His Home District

Tea party activists heckled and booed House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) Saturday at a GOP event in the congressman's home district.

Republicans in Virginia's 7th District gathered Saturday at a convention to elect a new committee chairman for the district. According to vote totals by conservative blog The Bold Elephant, incumbent chairman and key Cantor ally Linwood Cobb narrowly lost his reelection bid to tea party-backed Fred Gruber.

Tea party activists touted Gruber's victory as a bellwether of the showdown between Cantor and his primary rival, Dave Brat. An economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, Brat is challenging Cantor from the right, picking up endorsements from a number of conservative groups. As Politico reported last month, Cantor's camp has taken the challenge seriously despite Brat's slim chance of victory.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/11/eric-cantor-heckled_n_5305330.html?utm_hp_ref=politics