Author Topic: Donna Brazile: GOP Ignores Tea Party at Its Peril  (Read 470 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline mystery-ak

  • Owner
  • Administrator
  • ******
  • Posts: 381,842
  • Gender: Female
  • Let's Go Brandon!
Donna Brazile: GOP Ignores Tea Party at Its Peril
« on: June 16, 2014, 05:46:40 pm »
http://www.newsmax.com/PrintTemplate.aspx/?nodeid=577161


Newsmax
Donna Brazile: GOP Ignores Tea Party at Its Peril
Sunday, June 15, 2014 06:43 PM

By: Greg Richter

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile says the Republican establishment should pay attention to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's primary loss on Tuesday.

"The tea party is still highly caffeinated," Brazile said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."  The tea party, she said, "is the energy inside the Republican Party."

Cantor lost to political newcomer and tea party favorite Dave Brat, an economics professor in Virginia's 7th District. Brazile said Cantor ignored tea party conservatives fed up with President George W. Bush's expansion of government.

"You ignore them, you ignore the base, and that's a problem," Brazile said. "And he ignored the base."

Most pundits have attributed Cantor's loss to his support of immigration reform, but Breitbart.com's Tony Lee noted that Brat's campaign had been mainly about linking Cantor to crony capitalism. It was when he started talking about amnesty for illegal immigrants that voters began listening to his broader message.

Others have noted, too, that South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has a similar stance on immigration as Cantor, easily defeated six tea party challengers without a runoff. Graham told ""Meet the Press" on Sunday that Americans favor some form of immigration reform and that Cantor simply failed to properly state his position.
Proud Supporter of Tunnel to Towers
Support the USO
Democrat Party...the Party of Infanticide

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
-Matthew 6:34

Offline Formerly Once-Ler

  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 0
Re: Donna Brazile: GOP Ignores Tea Party at Its Peril
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2014, 06:39:03 am »
Thanx for the free advice Donna.