Eric Cantor Announces His Candidacy for President
Psyche. 
One small reason I’m enjoying being in the minority party is watching to see which new leaders will grab the Republican Matrix of Leadership and lead us all like Jacob to freedom. On any given issue, and one given person can step up as the “point man” and rally the troops while presenting a conservative alternative. And if there’s been one cat who had universally been that “point man” over the past month, it’s been Republican Whip and conservative it-boy Eric Cantor.
If there was one silver lining to passing the $2 TRILLION stimulus that the Obama Administration was borrowing from China and saddling our grandkids with the massive debt, it was seeing Cantor rise to leadership. Right off the bat, once the outline of the crap sandwich was announced, he held public hearing to discuss alternatives, made sure all members of the caucus had a copy of the bill and was reading it the minute it came out, and “whipped” everyone together to where not a single R voted for the bill…and even had ten D’s cross the isle and – in a bi-partisan fashion – stand against it with us.
And others are starting to take notice. From a recent Time Magazine profile…
Cantor – the No. 2 House Republican behind minority leader John Boehner – has been busy of late. The party’s chief vote counter whipped his colleagues into united opposition of President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan. Taking on the relatively unpopular congressional Democrats is one thing, but flagrantly opposing a wildly popular new President is risky, especially when any payoff could take years. But the move energized the GOP for the first time in a long while, inspiring six Republican governors – all rumored 2012 wannabes like Cantor himself – to threaten to decline some of the stimulus money…
The opposition heightened Cantor’s profile as the Newt Gingrich of his generation, a wonky, partisan bomb thrower who can rake in well over $300,000 in a single fundraiser, as he did last week. The Richmond, Va., Republican, who likes to remind folks that he holds James Madison’s seat in Congress, is one of the few rising stars in a party struggling to reinvent itself. But at 45, the baby-faced Cantor is hardly new to the scene. A player in House leadership for seven years, he has raised more than $16.5 million for himself and his colleagues in the past three election cycles – the carrot to his ideological stick when he’s keeping his conference in line…
Cantor and the rest of his party are grappling with how to approach the rest of the President’s agenda this year – housing and foreclosures, financial markets re-regulation, the budget, universal health care and green jobs. The key in opposing the stimulus, Cantor says, was offering a credible alternative. “Our members in the House really rallied around a forward-looking, smarter, simpler stimulus plan,” Cantor says. “We took a very positive, constructive view on where the stimulus should be, and when the bill that rolled through the House missed the mark the way it did, it demonstrated that the thought behind the majority’s bill was not to be a stimulus bill; it was to be a spending bill. And going forward, we’ll be using that as a model.”
The next phase in the war is going to be interesting, because this is where Obama tries to implement his liberal agenda with ideas that are a lot less popular than he is (which is why Dems always try to sneak it into spending bills when no one is looking – just as Tom Daschle said in his book). If it was me, and I was Eric Cantor, I would hold public town hall meetings once a week outside of the beltway; maybe even in “purple” districts we’re looking to flip in 2010.
Let’s take the case right to the people. The media will say we have no ideas regardless, and even say we have no ideas WHILE we’re presenting our ideas. But if we go right to the voters, face-to-face, and explain to them why we think our way is better and give them three of four different ideas to contrast with the D’s, and point out while the idea of free money is appealing but also flawed, that’s how we regain the majority.
And if anyone can lead the charge, it’s Eric Cantor.
UPDATE: Are you fucking kidding me?
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You wingnuts are really delusional. Do you realize that our President just framed and won the stimulus debate before the GOP even realized it was over. The Cantors, the Ryans and the like were too busy tap-dancing “moral victories” on the radio shows while Obama was building a coalition. Now the GOP looks even more silly than they did in November.
And while the President made you look like idiots, he’s moving on with the progressive agenda that the people voted for and currently approve. All the GOP has now is the word “no”. Thats it. A bankrupt “movement”, to say the least.
The two things that kept the GOP from being the regional party that it now is, were foreign policy and fiscal policy. Two disastrous wars and the complete disintegration of our financial/economic system, not to mention the worse recession since god knows when, pretty much blew those concepts out of the water.
When Joe the Plumber is the focal point of CPAC—well, then….that pretty much speaks for itself.
If the republican party wants to win in 2012, they need a following like Obama has. An ethnic group who will back the candidate regardless. because 98% of the black vote will go to B Obama again in 2012.
The only way to beat Obama is pick a conservative jewish fellow who will divide the Democratic Party by gaining support among the Jewish Democrats nationwide especially in critical states like NY, OH, PA, MA and NJ.
That is it!
neither Palin nor Romney won’t eb able to win against Obama!
GO ERIC CANTER in 2012
LOL to Aviva. I’m Jewish and I know just how things will go if the Republicans nominate Eric Cantor in ’12…
Obama gets 95% of the Jewish vote.
Don’t ask why, it’s just the (annoying) way it sometimes goes. It will be kind of the opposite to the African-American reaction to Obama in ’08.
Run for president.. you have my vote
Cantor for Vice President 2012!!!!