06.12.14
The party of WhiteManistan’s most popular bigot
Steel Knees is a happy man today. A relatively small number of really angry WhiteManistanis in Virginia booted famous House Republican Eric Cantor for, essentially, not hating on illegals, “bloodsuckers” and “the takers” enough.
Now Virginia has lighted the way. Eric Cantor is now the revolutionary verb, and it is time to go Eric Cantor on the whole bunch of them. No more compromise. No more BS freebees. No more getting anything you don’t earn. No more spending like maniacs flying over the cuckoo’s nest. No more criminal invaders and no more bloodsuckers.
Charles Blow at the NYT sums it up:
While the beltway chatter grows over the political death of Eric Cantor, the first House leader to be unseated in a primary, it would be easy to lose sight of just how unsettling his demise is for our politics in general.
On one level, it is a glaring example — and condemnation — of the staggering levels of voter apathy that exist the further an election race is from presidential politics. Only about 65,000 people voted in the Republican primary in Virginia’s Seventh District on Tuesday. This is in a district of nearly 760,000 people …