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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
It's historic. No House Majority Leader of either party has ever lost their primary election in the entire history of the country.

Brat campaigned for renewed fiscal responsibility, and against siding with Democrats on immigration reform. It's a massive wake-up call to the GOP establishment.

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Originally posted by AURaptor

So much for this election being the 'Establishment Strikes Back'.

Might be more of a " Return of the Patriots " theme.

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Fall of an Apparatchik by Paul Krugman

Cantor’s loss is part of a process that could well unravel movement conservatism as we know it.

Movement conservatism — as distinct from just plain conservatism, which has always been a part of the landscape and always will be — is a distinct feature of modern American politics. It dates, more or less, back to the 1970s, when conservatives, with lots of money from the likes of Richard Mellon Scaife, set about building an institutional infrastructure of think tanks, pressure groups, captive media, etc.. At first this infrastructure mainly provided backing to right-thinking (in both senses) politicians. But eventually it provided a career path for up and coming conservatives.

In particular, being a movement conservative in good standing meant considerable career safety: even if you or the politician you worked for lost an election, there were jobs to be had at think tanks (e.g. Rick Santorum heading up the “America’s enemies” program at a Scaife-backed think tank), media gigs (two Bush speechwriters writing columns for the Washington Post, not to mention the gaggle at the WSJ and Fox News), and so on.

In other words, being a hard line conservative, which to be fair involved some career risks back in the 60s and into the 70s, became a safe choice; you could count on powerful backing, and if not favored by fortune, you could fall back on wingnut welfare.

And Eric Cantor, who got into politics long after the Reagan revolution and for the most part made his career post Gingrich, came across very much as a movement conservative apparatchik. He took very hard line stances, but never seemed especially passionate; he was, arguably, basically a careerist, and as such was fairly typical.

Maybe that’s what the primary voters sensed.

Whatever the reason, it turns out that being a movement conservative apparatchik is no longer a safe career choice. This is a very big deal. Conservatives, as I said, will always be with us. But the structure that shaped them into a cohesive movement is now starting to unravel, at a time when movement progressivism — which is much less cohesive and much less lucrative, but nonetheless now exists in a way it didn’t 15 years ago — is on the rise.

Meanwhile, don’t cry for Eric Cantor.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Small moves, Jongsie. Small moves.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
It's historic. No House Majority Leader of either party has ever lost their primary election in the entire history of the country.

Brat campaigned for renewed fiscal responsibility, and against siding with Democrats on immigration reform. It's a massive wake-up call to the GOP establishment.

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You watching FOX News too ? I just heard them mention that factoid as well.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Brat, much like Obama, was the clear lesser of two evils.
Well done, everybody.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
The fun has already started. At his first presser after his win, after saying he was ready to discuss policy questions - was asked about minimum wage, he said he didn't have a "Well crafted response" and refused to answer. And he's an economist. Ha!

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Originally posted by Storymark:
The fun has already started. At his first presser after his win, after saying he was ready to discuss policy questions - was asked about minimum wage, he said he didn't have a "Well crafted response" and refused to answer. And he's an economist. Ha!

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Well, he's an ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, that's like, someone that reads about it, studies it, and talks about it. Now he's got the chance to apply all of his worthless theoretical crap in the real world.

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:


Oh, and not to mention this punk they did shove up there is a Randroid, worshipping a hypocritical serial killer groupie who herself was all sloppy over a cretin who murdered kids for fun and held him up as an exemplar of perfection.
http://www.alternet.org/story/145819/ayn_rand%2C_hugely_popular_author
_and_inspiration_to_right-wing_leaders%2C_was_a_big_admirer_of_serial_killer?paging=off

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Yeah, its all fantasy.

Oh, from last week:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.ht
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Once again, proof that the Democrats have invented time travel!!!

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Yeah, its all fantasy.

Oh, from last week:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.ht
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Once again, proof that the Democrats have invented time travel!!!

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Yeah, its all fantasy.

Oh, from last week:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.ht
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Once again, proof that the Democrats have invented time travel!!!

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Hey - I already posted that link way up the thread! But our discerning non-partisan wise man Joongs won't accept anything from Cooter.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

LOL @ those who think enough Dims came out & voted for Brat to make a difference.

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I helped cross over & vote out Crazy Cynthia McKinny, but a Dim still won the district.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
There's plenty of psychos still in government, Jongs. No shortage there.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Tea Party Patriots

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Dave Brat attended Hope College in Michigan and received a B.A. in Business Administration in 1986; he also graduated with a Master's degree in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1990 and earned a Ph.D in economics from American University in 1995. After working for Arthur Andersen and as a consultant for the World Bank, he became a professor at Randolph–Macon College in 1996.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Yeah Chris, he sounds like a real dangerous far-right threat.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Tea Party Patriots

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Seriously?
Saying 'Tea Party Patriots' is much like saying 'Alliance Independents'.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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Originally posted by THGRRI:
Eric Cantor and the Tea Party Purge
Posted on Jun 11, 2014
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.


In 1961, John F. Kennedy said: “In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.”


http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/eric_cantor_and_the_tea_party_purg
e_20140611

si shen

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

Sounds like a stone cold nut to me.
No smear machine necessary.

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