Cantor Ran to Serve the Elites
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Cantor Ran to Serve the Elites
Jack Kelly, RealClearPolitics
On Tuesday, Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., became the first House majority leader ever to be defeated in a primary election. No one in Washington saw this coming. Most try harder to spin the result than to understand why it happened. They will regret it. Good candidates win. Bad candidates lose. Eric Cantor, like Mitt Romney, is an intelligent man of good character and genuine accomplishment. But like Mr. Romney — and for essentially the same reasons — he was a terrible candidate. The victor, Dave Brat, who teaches economics at Randolph-Macon College, could be in real life the character…
