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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 07:39 PM Jun 2014

Cantor vanquisher Brat shies from tea party label

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dave Brat doesn’t like being tagged a tea partyer, his dad says.

“He doesn’t like those labels,” said Paul Brat, who’s been watching his son shoot to the top of American political news with his stunning primary defeat Tuesday of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. “He calls himself a Republican and runs on Republican principles.”

If Dave Brat is not a tea partyer, he’s nonetheless the loosely-organized movement’s star at a time when it has struggled to matter in the 2014 midterm elections. In the shell-shocked hours after he defeated Cantor on a shoestring campaign budget, Brat, the Richmond suburbs’ GOP nominee to the House, struggled to define who he was to a media horde with a sudden interest.

The 49-year-old father of two is a professor at Randolph-Macon College, a small liberal arts institution north of Richmond. But he’s not a liberal college professor as Cantor tried to portray him. Brat, who holds a PhD in economics from American University and has studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, says he’s a believer in God, free enterprise and the Constitution. He says an overarching goal has been to merge his interest in philosophy and economics.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/06/11/cantor_vanquisher_brat_shies_from_tea_party_label/

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Cantor vanquisher Brat shies from tea party label (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
He is a hypocrite of gigantic proportions...but maybe also because he is an idiot randys1 Jun 2014 #1
The Tea Party is obviously far too moderate for Brat. Scuba Jun 2014 #2
Here comes the pivot to the middle C_U_L8R Jun 2014 #3
a difference without distinction.n/t. uncle ray Jun 2014 #4
anybody else Cryptoad Jun 2014 #5
Yes n/t PADemD Jun 2014 #9
if it looks,quacks, and walks like a duck...It's a duck SummerSnow Jun 2014 #6
It's kind of amusing watching and listening to the uber conservatives rpannier Jun 2014 #7
Professor of Godonomics. nt Monk06 Jun 2014 #8
Rebranding already. malthaussen Jun 2014 #10
If the shoe fits, don't let the dog drag it off! lastlib Jun 2014 #11
typical repuke. uses them then dumps them. nt Javaman Jun 2014 #12

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. He is a hypocrite of gigantic proportions...but maybe also because he is an idiot
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 07:43 PM
Jun 2014

and dont know no better

But to preach Randian philosophy and then quote the bible at his victory speech is beyond hypocrisy, need a new word for that

rpannier

(24,304 posts)
7. It's kind of amusing watching and listening to the uber conservatives
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 01:03 AM
Jun 2014

they've rallied to this guys banner, yet they totally ignored him

According to the WSJ, the dinner meeting at Brent Bozell's house was stunned and dismayed the Cantor was losing. Then after the concession, they quickly jumped on ship

They didn't support the guy, they gave him no money, never even mentioned him once during the campaign
Maybe that should be his strategy... Bozzel and Perkins stay the f@ck away

The dumbest statement so far has to come from the guy running against Lamar Alexander,
“From Virginia to Mississippi, a transformational change is underway that is being led by a true grassroots movement.”

Virginia to Mississippi. That's kind of like saying everything from A-C

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