Return of the Tea Party

By Robert Romano

Republican primary voters have cast a decisive verdict against the Washington establishment in Virginia’s 7^th Congressional District. In ousting House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), grassroots activists led by the tea party have marked a stunning comeback in the national political scene.

The beneficiary of Cantor’s fall, Randolph-Macon College economics professor Dave Brat, ran his campaign against $17.5 trillion national debt, illegal immigration amnesty, bank bailouts, any legislation that funds Obamacare, and National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance.

Brat won in a landslide, with 56 percent of the vote. The margin was more than 7,000 votes in a primary in which about 65,000 voted.

The attack against Cantor came on fully funding Obamacare, voting for the TARP bailouts, voting to expand Medicare, supporting allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. as a matter of policy, and voting against an amendment by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) that would have ended the NSA’s mass surveillance program.

That Cantor was not fully representing the Republican Party base in his district was no secret, but the issues may have played but a secondary role in Cantor’s demise, says one political observer.

“The extraordinary lengths Cantor allies went to in their slating efforts to disenfranchise conservatives and wrestle control of the state party provoked a massive backlash,” American Commitment President Phil Kerpen noted in an email.

Breitbart.com’s Matthew Boyle reported on the slating the Cantor campaign was responsible for, wherein “a series of recent incidents in which GOP party officials departed from tradition and excluded dozens of conservative activists from attending local party conventions.”

Apparently, the goal in stacking the meetings was to reject conservative convention delegates in an attempt to take control over the Commonwealth’s Republican Party, and to push back the tea party wing.

As Kerpen noted, it definitely backfired. “One of the lessons of Cantor’s defeat is that having your team go all over the state poking conservatives in the eyes is a great way to endanger your own seat.”

The first sign of serious trouble for Cantor may have come with the election of Fred Gruber to head up Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican Committee in May. Gruber defeated Cantor loyalist Linwood Cobb for the post.

That in turn sparked establishment outrage. Former Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling blasted the Gruber win in the pages of the Washington Post, saying, “While the voice of every Republican should be heard, our challenge is to figure out how to be a conservative party, without allowing the most extreme voices of the day to control our party and determine its future direction.”

There, Bolling was speaking not only against Gruber supporters, but to Brat supporters, who Gruber backed. The establishment — with Bolling as its visible spokesman — was calling anyone who dared challenge Cantor “the most extreme voices of the day.”

Perhaps Cantor and company should have heeded the warning of former Conservative Party chairman and Margaret Thatcher cabinet minister Norman Tebbit, speaking on the trouble David Cameron’s Tories have had in the UK, losing ground to Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party: “If you kick your core voters hard enough, Mr. Cameron, they might kick back.”

And surely they did, with the UK Independence Party coming in first place in Britain’s European Parliament elections last month. Cameron’s Tories came in a distant third.

What Cameron learned, and Cantor and Republican leaders in Washington, D.C. are now realizing, is that no party and no politician is safe. The American people expect results, and they want representation. Cantor failed to represent his district, and when challenged, lashed out against activists there. He owns his defeat.

Robert Romano is the senior editor of Americans for Limited Government.

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Comments

The same GOP Party Convention shenanigans to minimize conservative voices occurred at the 2012 GOP National Convention as John Boehner read “the ayes have it” from a teleprompter, following a loud “nay” voice vote. 

It also occurred in Georgia in the 2013 convention cycle.  The RINO “establishment” GOP continued to prevail in many 2014 primary races.  Georgia conservatives are not welcome in the Georgia GOP except in some rural counties where they prevail. GOP conservatives did represent a solid 40% of State Convention Delegates in 2013.  

The uphill battle began in 2009 with the introduction of billions in Federal printed money offered as grants to States to be passed on through Regional Commissions to local city and county governments to be squander on UN Agenda 21 implementation fluff like bike lanes, walking paths and “economic development”.  Georgia politicians are hooked on these Federal Grants enough to scuttle attempts to nullify Obamacare and Regionalism and block Common Core in 2014.

Nothing will change until these grants are stopped.  The grants are squandered on overcharges for fluff.  The trillions being poured into this scam will result in the worst inflation in our history.  The Federal Reserve has increased the money supply by 400% and the dollar devaluation will accelerate as it always does. 

Couple this government engineered economic disaster with the UN Agenda 21 goal to decimate our agricultural production and reduce the global population by 90% and you have real problems.

Eric Cantor should have lost his seat for allowing this treason to continue as well as his previous votes to position us for this disaster.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader