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Re: Eric Cantor is Gone
This is absolutely right.
The lesson here is very simple and it's very simple in all the Tea Party primaries - if you don't listen to the people, if you don't listen to your constituents, if you spend all your time in Washington and you become more concerned with Washington than you are with the people who voted for you, you risk that those people who voted for you will look for someone else who'll listen to them.
This primary beat down was entirely, 100%, about immigration reform and Cantor's constituents didn't like where he was trying to take it.
I fully respect an electorate that doesn't go along to get along and doesn't reward broken promises simply because the guy who broke the promise has a great chance of being reelected. If you keep ignoring and/or rewarding politicians who are ignoring you, you deserve to be ignored.
Most of the bitching about the Tea Party on this website has come from leftwingers like you. The GOP has plenty to learn about how out of touch they are with rightwing America, and it looks like Lesson #1 came last night.
This is absolutely right.
The lesson here is very simple and it's very simple in all the Tea Party primaries - if you don't listen to the people, if you don't listen to your constituents, if you spend all your time in Washington and you become more concerned with Washington than you are with the people who voted for you, you risk that those people who voted for you will look for someone else who'll listen to them.
This primary beat down was entirely, 100%, about immigration reform and Cantor's constituents didn't like where he was trying to take it.
I fully respect an electorate that doesn't go along to get along and doesn't reward broken promises simply because the guy who broke the promise has a great chance of being reelected. If you keep ignoring and/or rewarding politicians who are ignoring you, you deserve to be ignored.