That's … pretty staggering. Completely unexpected, from all the news I read.
I have no use for Cantor, to be honest, and my best hope out of this is that it will further fracture the GOP, create some lovely new outrageous quotes from its Far Right fringe, and actually boost the Dems this fall.
But still … wow.
Eric Cantor succumbs to tea party challenger Tuesday
The House Republican leader succumbs to David Brat, a little-known conservative activist.
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Yea, not sure if this is a good thing.
It doesn't speak well for Dem control of Virginia, perhaps, if that particular district is that radicalized.
I hate rooting for bad candidates to win GOP primaries, both because of the risk of their actually being elected and because I'd love the GOP to return to a more centrist party (that of Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford — hell, even Goldwater). It remains hard to tell if the Tea Party is the self-destruction of the GOP or of the United States.