"Tea Party Defeat Of Eric Cantor Spells Trouble For GOP"

Tea Party Defeat Of Eric Cantor Spells Trouble For GOP

by Michael McAuliff at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/10/eric-cantor-tea-party_n_5482691.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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"Now the tea party folks have two years to get their legs under them and see how they won those races, and see how they can take that to enough of these districts and knock off more guys," Galen said, noting that such activists are probably not thinking about things like the next White House race or control of the Senate in 2016.

"Maybe what’s got to happen is the [National Republican Congressional Committee] or the conference has got to start sitting down with incumbents and say this is what you have to do to win, and not check some purity checklist," Galen said.

If conservatives weren't sure that Democrats see a chance in the tea party upset of the second-most powerful Republican in the House, here's how Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee head Rep, Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) put it in a statement soon after the news broke:


We all saw how far outside the mainstream this Republican Congress was with Eric Cantor at the helm, now we will see them run further to the far right with the Tea Party striking fear into the heart of every Republican on the ballot and cementing the dysfunction that has paralyzed this Congress and prevented them from taking any action to help middle class families. While House Republicans are racing to the right, Democrats are focused on a mainstream agenda that strengthens the middle class and makes this economy work for every American family. Eric Cantor is the personification of frustration with Washington and House Republicans should be terrified of the backlash from the voters who have been alienated by their race to the right.



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