Thursday, June 12, 2014

Dave Brat's Win in Virginia

Dave Brat gave House Majority Leader Eric Cantor a stunning defeat in the Virginia Republican Primary. The numbers were 56% for Brat and 44% to Cantor. This resulted in Cantor's resigning as House Majority Leader.
Dave Brat was a Tea Party supported candidate, but the Tea Party gave him no money. Many reasons have been given for this extraordinary turnover, but I heard Dave Brat speak. His message was that we are all tired of the shenanigans in Washington and want it stopped. At least the people in the Seventh Congressional District strongly believed in his position.
While the Democrats were crowing about a division within the Republican Party, I view this is a very significant indication of the Republicans ability to start recouping some power in the destination of US government. Eric Cantor was a member of the old guard, and the old guard is on its way out. New younger Republicans are basically libertarians, but are smart enough to realize that defecting to the Libertarian party would be a disaster for any of their attempts at control. In effect, they are trying to push out or at least change the positions of the old Republican guard. I think they have a good chance of doing so and hope they are successful.

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