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Eric Cantor Doesn’t Want You. He Wants Democrats.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 30th, 2012 at 09:34 AM  | 

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ImagesThis is more offensive than Cantor throwing his weight behind Adam Kinzinger’s re-election bid against Don Manzullo. He was successful there, but we need to shut him down in Indiana.

The Republican Leader in the House of Representatives is not backing down from trying to drive up Democrat turnout in the Indiana Republican Primary.

First, you have to wonder why a House guy is getting involved in a Senate race.

Second, you have to wonder why a Republican Leader is using Republican donors’ money to drive up Democrat turnout in a Republican race.

I wonder if the Republican donors to the Young Guns Network know their campaign donations to a Republican group are going to aid and abet Democrat turnout in a Republican race. And I hope House conservatives know their own supposedly leader is not just using their own money to pick and choose between them in the House, but to also help Barack Obama’s favorite Senator.

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  • Neal Kahn

    Crikey.
    Cantor lost his street cred with me.

    Lugar has got to go.

  • avgjo

    like Mr. Erickson and others call for primary challengers to Cantor and Boehner, they will continue to act like this. They have not been yet given a reason to fear conservatives. They take every opportunity they can to screw us, confident that no one on our side will really call them out, much less take any effective action against them.

    So far, their confidence has been vindicated.

  • Change Jar Conservative

    He’s helping his friend.

    I don’t LIKE it, but that is what is going on here.

    And the fix is what avgjo said above.

    We should primary McConnell, Boehner, and Cantor, but it would take self-funding Tea Party candidates to have any chance to win those slots.

  • rabun1016

    I have reread this three times and while clues remain, it is a hiss poor piece of writing. Reminds me of MItch McConnell where you get a few remarks of outrage but no cogent sound bites that frame the issue and persuade.

  • rabun1016

    Agree that union-like-seniority guys like Lugar, Hatch, Shelby need to go because they have now all become part of the govt cancer.

  • jon11

    …and not because i have any love for Luger…but for the simple fact that when Rick Santorum tried (and succeeded) to turn out the democratic vote in Michigan, Wisconsin…everywhere with an open primary…Conservatives who i respect like Rush Limbaugh defended it…pretending…and i want to stress that word here…PRETENDING that these people were ‘Reagan Democrats’ and that it was actually a ‘smart strategy’

    It was easily the most low ball thing i witnessed the entire primary.

    And conservatives, for the most part, either defended it or kept mum.

    But when it happens to one of their guys its a dirty despicable tactic.

  • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

    Put this country first instead of last. In this case, Eric Cantor is doubling down against both this country’s survival and right of center voters who’ve kept this country afloat and been treated like scum in return. I appreciated a vignette of another poster about Cantor yucking it up with back slappers only minutes after the original ObamaCare vote. I see the situation now as Lord of the Flies. That calls for a different kind of battle plan.

  • earlgrey

    Cantor has a leadership position in the R house, and he is actively recruiting Democrat votes in an R primary.

    why would I want to help a party that actively works with Democrats?

    Am I overthinking? The answer is probably yes, but I don’t know how to defuse my anger over this.

  • floydbayne

    Cantor does have a primary challenger. www.floydbayne.com

  • floydbayne

    Cantor does have a primary challenger. www.floydbayne.com – check him out.

  • floydbayne

    Get rid of RINO’s. Cantor has a primary challenger who could use your help. www.floydbayne.com

  • ohiohistorian

    I asked the following on the similar post by Daniel Horowitz entitled The Ultimate Treachery this weekend (link and text follow). I think the question is one that needs to be answered by one of you RedState moderators. You cannot just throw blood in the water. You have to LEAD, and that may mean that you have to put your name on the line. So do it.

    BTW, thanks for all of the thoughts from the posters here on what to do, and especially on Brown vs Mandel.

    OhioHistorian

    http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/04/28/the-ultimate-treachery/#comment-8853

    “I admit I don?t have a dog in this fight (being the OHIOHistorian). Looking at the Indiana conservatives, these people do not seem to like him very well so I bow to Hoosier opinion (http://www.hoosiersforconservativesenate.com/uploads/Blow_the_Whistle_on_Dick_Lugar.pdf)
    http://blogs.freedomworks.org/files/LugarVotingRecord.pdf

    My question to you Tea Party experts is:
    ?Josh Mandel is running n in a pretty uphill run against Sherrod Brown. Are the Young Guns supporting Josh appropriately, and do I support them, or withhold support? Until this article, I thought they were supporting conservatives. Now it appears they are only doing that if they are the only (R) candidate. Are they supporting guys like Mandel appropriately?”

  • markinnj

    As a Republican Voter in NJ I hate the fact that my choices are determined ahead of time by the established, unfair primary process.

    In this day and age there are no longer reasons for the protracted primary schedule. We have instant communications and 24/7 coveage of every word, burp, and faux pas of every candidate.

    Then you get the republican candidates being determined by DEMOCRATS??? This is just insane. Primaries should be for registered party voters only, and should all be held on the same day. By the time New Jersey’s primary rolls around we get to rubber stamp the surviving candidate. No wonder we can’t get a conservative candidate. The Democrats tell us who we can vote for. How asinine is that?

    There are millions of disenfranchized conservatives with no voice in our political process due to being locked out of the early determination primaries.

    The high cost of campaining would also be reduced with a shorter primariy season. The candidates get on the ballot, get their plans out for us to see, debate each other a few times, and then everybody votes on one Super Tuesday, winner take all. It is the only way for every one of us Repulicans to have an equal say in just who will represent us.

  • richsr7

    The Republicans; the Democrats; the others; ALL are not (as an electorate) paying attention.
    We need to start paying attention to our core faith. What are our core beliefs?
    When we walk into the voting booths, do we stop to think? What do we think about?
    The majority of us only think Repub, Dem or Ind. What should we be thinking? How about the Ten Commandments? The majority of us claim to be Christian. I do not recall which poll it is, but they are many that claim we are still a Christian nation. I agree with them. Who are we calling on to make our laws? Who are we calling on to sign the edicts that are enacted? What are we calling for? Who is ultimately responsible for the actions of the public? US! Yeah; WE are America.
    WE called for Abortion on demand; WE called for all this financial ruin. We became the people who said ?Let someone else pay?, well we also let Mr. Obama build the largest abortion mill in the world in Houston TX as his first Executive Order to sign What do we think GOD will say about that when the world; including us has to stand before HIM?
    Well we are paying now.
    I remember how things were different when I was young; buy a couple pounds of ground beef and being able to afford it; cars that could be repaired without ?breaking the bank? (a slam at cash for clunkers); being able to afford a home, whether rented or owning it. How many people have nowhere to live any more? How many existing with relatives? Yeah; life seemed simpler then, but we asked for all the troubles we have now. We, the public, called for union bosses to control where people can earn disproportionate wages. Do we still need them?
    WE elected these people. Want to do something about it? That is what we have these elected officials for.
    Call for changes in the laws! Get rid of the old ones that make no sense. Have Congress do away with two or three every time they create a new one.
    We have the ability to elect the laws we live under; whether we call for righteous or unrighteous laws. It is up to US!
    Do something, do not stand still.
    Define that politician; is he/she a professional? How many terms has he/she been there? What happened in the last election? Is it not time to throw them all out?
    Sunset those laws while we are at it.

  • donrsherwood

    We must remember who our elected leaders support, in November. Cantor has become a disgrace, only exceeded by Speaker Boehner.

    Both need to be defeated in November.

    We have far too many Democragts and RINOs in elected office. The path they have us on is headed toward DISASTER. Those that think other wise should view the YOUTUBE video “If I wanted America to FAIL”

    The results are as obvious as they are staggering.

  • littletboca

    Cantor needs to be exposed for what he really is…. He isn’t your friendly neighborhood postman and he’s not working to “Take Back Our Country.”

  • remalimo

    TX still has not had a chance to vote. Do you think that I like the choices?

  • cwfoster

    One with a charter that actually APPLIES lessons learned for the past. Would it be too much to ask that party leadership rexamine party members over the past term, and decide if the member actually voted according to the party’s platform at least a majority of the time before throwing campaign funds at them, or even allowing them to run as a member of that party in the upcoming election? This would be the fastest way to rid a party of the RINO/DINO problem!

  • tnguy

    It would take many election cycles for that to happen.

    We need to clean up (or clean out) the republican party. If we – and the candidates we promote – don’t have the stones to push aside spineless lighweights like Boehner and McConnell, then there’s really no chance we could ever get the country headed in the right direction anyway.

  • APA Guy

    3rd parties only serve one interest….electing more Democrats. Conservative in the primary, GOP in the general…say it with me.

  • acat

    They’ll die off quickly… but will be buzzing around annoyingly in the meantime. It’s still better than an infestation of Paulistines…

    Mew

  • MF

    Support him DIRECTLY. Don’t use any middle men such as Young Guns.

  • funwithknives

    have a ‘closed’ primary if the two [or more] parties pay All expenses.
    Plus you only get 4 dates per year.

    Well ,you just know that is not going to happen and this is a blue state overall. Progressives would fight tooth and nail to keep it, as-is.

    In the real world this is called ” being screwed,royally”.

  • ohiohistorian

    You think that the Dems can win Ohio 8th? I can’t even find out who Boehner’s opponent is by searching the web.

  • floydbayne

    Vote for Floyd Bayne in Virginia’s 7th District – www.floydbayne.com