What are the take-aways from Cantor loss?
Cantor was too far "left" for the Limbaugh Party and not anti-immigrant enough. |
It's too bad in a way. Cantor was one of my favorite foils here at Small Talk. It was back in January that Cantor launched a verbal attack on newly-elected N.Y. Mayor Bill de Blasioand went to bat for his hedge-fund school reformer friends in N.Y. I noted then that,
“America is in the midst of an education revolution," [Cantor told] the Brookings Institute, referring to the unfettered growth of privately-run charter schools and school vouchers going to private and church-run schools.The real irony has this self-proclaimed anti-Washington, anti-gummint, local-control advocate trying to bully a city mayor and a local school district.I love the way these guys always frame themselves as r-r-revolutionaries. Wasn't that the battle cry of the two nazi crazies who murdered the two cops in Las Vegas after coming off the Bundy ranch?
They pinned onto the other officer's body a note saying something to the effect of "this is the beginning of the revolution."I guess Cantor's revolutionary days are just about over.
While it was only one low turn-out primary in one state (Lindsey Graham beat T-baggers easily in S.C.), it demonstrates the potential power and discipline of the gun-toting racists and anti-government, anti-abortion, anti-gay, and anti-immigrant groups, who have been Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What are the take-aways from Cantor loss?: