Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 223906)

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elec...lenger-n127946

:rolleyes: Republicants eatin' their own...Who knows, maybe a chance for the Dems in the Old Dominion? ;)

Originally Posted by finnbow (Post 223908)

There are no Democratic candidates in his district. We now will have another crazed Teabagger to laugh at.

Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 223911)

Oh well. See my response in your thread. :D

Originally Posted by finnbow (Post 223913)

I was mistaken. There is a Democratic challenger who is unopposed in the primary. Interestingly, he is a professor at the same school (Randolph Macon College) as the Teabagger who beat Cantor.

Originally Posted by icenine (Post 223986)

It would be easy to dismiss him but then again he knocked off the majority leader.
However his influence will be minimal in comparison to what Cantor's would have been after the 2014 battle.

Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 223996)

Were you mugged by a guy from El Salvador or something? Your sure seem 'activated' on this 'child invasion' thing....

Originally Posted by Dondilion (Post 224005)

That is neither here nor there. "Children at the border" is now a driving force in Republican politics. They view it as an out growth of the "Dream Act".
The cumulative result...Immigration Reform is dead in the near future.

Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie (Post 224011)

A few thoughts:

It's interesting that Can't-or gerrymandered himself out of a job. In building what he thought would be a district so conservative he'd never lose, he built one so conservative he couldn't win. Amazing bit of backfire.

It's frightening because it furthers the idea that Republican should never compromise. Can't-or allegedly is ousted because he suggested that just maybe they should find common ground on immigration. Since compromise is what makes democracy work, it's a little scary. I wonder if the American people will continue to support a congress that literally does absolutely nothing, and now, even runs on a promise to do absolutely nothing.

I also wonder if this won't force even more extreme candidates for national office. Republicans already face an electoral math problem. Pushing the party even further right will make that even more difficult to over-come. As a Democrat, I'm tempted to see that as good news. But really it's not. We're watching what is really a very small group of people move the collective conversation further right. It's moving Democrats to the right as well. Look at the health care issue. We enacted the Nixon/Romney solution - what was always seen as the "Republican" plan. Now it's called "So************************m". The only bright spot - if indeed the Republicans move so far to the right they can't win the White House for several more cycles, the Supreme Court will shift and stay that way for a very long time.

I suspect, however, that middle Republicans will start to get tired of the extreme rhetoric at some point. Some already realize that demonizing the fastest growing demographic in the country is political suicide. Someone will come along and find the right combination of language and charisma to convince the base that they need to change. It's not outside the realm of possible that we'll see the Republican party split. If that were to happen, the Tea Hatters would be exposed for what they are - a small, angry, racist faction. The return of a reasonable Republican party would attract a lot of the Independents who left when things started getting so weird.

Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie (Post 224011)

A few thoughts:

It's interesting that Can't-or gerrymandered himself out of a job. In building what he thought would be a district so conservative he'd never lose, he built one so conservative he couldn't win. Amazing bit of backfire.

It's frightening because it furthers the idea that Republican should never compromise. Can't-or allegedly is ousted because he suggested that just maybe they should find common ground on immigration. Since compromise is what makes democracy work, it's a little scary. I wonder if the American people will continue to support a congress that literally does absolutely nothing, and now, even runs on a promise to do absolutely nothing.

I also wonder if this won't force even more extreme candidates for national office. Republicans already face an electoral math problem. Pushing the party even further right will make that even more difficult to over-come. As a Democrat, I'm tempted to see that as good news. But really it's not. We're watching what is really a very small group of people move the collective conversation further right. It's moving Democrats to the right as well. Look at the health care issue. We enacted the Nixon/Romney solution - what was always seen as the "Republican" plan. Now it's called "So************************m". The only bright spot - if indeed the Republicans move so far to the right they can't win the White House for several more cycles, the Supreme Court will shift and stay that way for a very long time.

I suspect, however, that middle Republicans will start to get tired of the extreme rhetoric at some point. Some already realize that demonizing the fastest growing demographic in the country is political suicide. Someone will come along and find the right combination of language and charisma to convince the base that they need to change. It's not outside the realm of possible that we'll see the Republican party split. If that were to happen, the Tea Hatters would be exposed for what they are - a small, angry, racist faction. The return of a reasonable Republican party would attract a lot of the Independents who left when things started getting so weird.

Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 224032)

Making the legislature dysfunctional can create a "crisis." I know of a party in Europe, in the early 30's, that included sabotaging the legislature as part of its successful bid to sieze power....

The demographic disaster happening to the Republicans at the national level may be spurring some to contemplate drastic solutions. Perhaps there is some thought in dark corners that radical change can happen in a crisis.

Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie (Post 224013)

Also worth note: Cantor was the only Republican Jew in the House. It would be foolish not to realize that played a role in all this. Christian conservatives haven't been less than vocal about their desire to see Christian dogma instituted into US law. Cantor didn't fit that social agenda.

Originally Posted by Dondilion (Post 224058)

I

I doubt he being a Jew played a part in his down fall.
Conservatives are the strongest supporters of Zionism/Israel
and some of their biggest money donors are Jewish.

From all reports Cantor was confident and neglected his home base.
It is felt that he probably could have overcome the Obama/immigration
association if he had spent more time in his constituency.

Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 223970)

The ability to banish people through ideological attacks always brings certain sorts of personalities to the fore....

Technically, they are called "louts."

Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 223973)

I love it when I hit upon just the right word!

Originally Posted by BlueStreak (Post 224119)

like the new (to me) word I've learned since buying a membership at Planet Fitness; "Lunk", short for "Lunkhead";

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunkhead

Or as one of the employees told me; "A noisy, obnoxious, and judgmental idiot." ;)

Dave

Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 224222)

In the face of what they perceive as an extraordinary threat, the right-wing high-wealth activists are employing extraordinary means. The threat is the changing American demographics that will in coming years keep the Democrats in unbreakable control of the Presidency and the Senate, with the House protected only by gerrymandering that will eventually be undone, state by state.

The extraordinary means are to use control of the House to make the nation ungovernable, creating a crisis that will open the way to a violent overthrow of the current constitution.

Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 224605)

Ted Nugent is a Weapon of Mind Destruction.

Originally Posted by Pio1980 (Post 224606)

He pretty much discredits anything with which he's associated, as do the Excrement in Fraudcasting guys


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