Cantor vanquisher Brat shies from tea party label
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Dave Brat doesnt like being tagged a tea partyer, his dad says.
He doesnt like those labels, said Paul Brat, whos 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, hes nonetheless the loosely-organized movements 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 hes 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 hes 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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randys1
(16,286 posts)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
Scuba
(53,475 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)It's not such a great strategy if everyone is onto you.
uncle ray
(3,153 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)find it creepy how much the two look alike?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)rpannier
(24,304 posts)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
Monk06
(7,675 posts)malthaussen
(17,065 posts)These people are so pathetic.
-- Mal