Breitbart – by JOEL B. POLLAKHouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who lost his Republican congressional primary to Tea Party-backed Dave Brat in a shocking landslide Tuesday, is the highest-ranking Jew in the history of the U.S. Congress. As news of Cantor’s defeat spread, Jews on both sides of the aisle wrestled with what his defeat meant for American Jews in politics–and for Republican Jews in particular, who had long seen Cantor as a champion for their cause.
“We are disappointed that our friend Eric Cantor lost his primary race tonight, but we are proud of his many, many accomplishments in Congress,” said Republican Jewish Coalition executive director Matt Brooks in a somewhat grim press statement Tuesday evening. “Eric has been an important pro-Israel voice in the House and a leader on security issues…We are proud to have worked with Eric Cantor for the last 14 years.”
Indeed, Cantor and his wife were prominent guests of honor at RJC events–not just high-dollar leadership meetings, but also at local chapters across the country. In 2010, hundreds of Jewish Republicans packed a standing-room-only ballroom in suburban Chicago to hear Cantor speak in the run-up to the midterm elections that year, which swept Cantor and his party into power in the House of Representatives on a wave of Tea Party support.
Though Cantor has never made his religious identity as central to his persona as did former Democrat Sen. Joseph Lieberman–another prominent Jewish politician defeated by his own party in a midterm primary–he was proud to identify as a Jew. He promoted Jewish political candidates, such as Ohio treasurer Josh Mandel, and referred to his Judaism in explaining some of his positions, including his support for immigration reform.
It was that push for immigration reform, despite of a deeply flawed “comprehensive” bill in the Senate and a growing crisis at the border, that cost Cantor his seat to Brat’s “anti-amnesty” campaign.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee gloated over Cantor’s defeat “by the Tea Party base that he’s kowtowed to at every turn,” and some Democrats claimed that the Tea Party had rejected Cantor because of his Judaism.
It is a claim undermined by the fact that Cantor helped inspire the Tea Party’s birth in 2009 by whipping the Republican minority against the $862 billion stimulus, and by the fact that some Tea Party conservatives had supported him as an alternative to Speaker of the House John Boehner in January 2013. At least one of Cantor’s most prominent critics, talk radio host Mark Levin, is Jewish–and enthusiastically backed Brat’s campaign.
On social media, some Tea Party-aligned Jews were exultant at Cantor’s defeat: “Just so everyone knows …. I am Jewish …. and I am more than tickled pink that Cantor Lost,”tweeted Floridian Errol Phillips, whose profile describes him as a “Tea Party Conservative.” Others disagreed: “they [Tea Party] are not a party welcome to Jews,”tweeted Jacob Kornbluh, a conservative political activist and religious Jew from Brooklyn, New York.
Cantor’s departure from Congress next year also means that the pro-Israel community will lose one of its best allies on Capitol Hill. However, the issue did not come up in the primary campaign. Brat’s website does not mention Israel, yet calls for a strong foreign policy: “We must secure our borders, support the Armed Forces, both at home and abroad, and maintain a strong national defense in order to secure our country’s future.”
Arguably, Lieberman’s loss in 2006 had far more to do with nascent anti-Israel tendencies among Democrats than Cantor’s loss in 2014 has to do with any such feeling among Republicans. Anti-war Democrats routinely cast Lieberman as a traitor to the party–and the country–because of his support for the Iraq War and George W. Bush’s war on terror, which some on the left characterized as a surreptitious campaign on Israel’s behalf. Cantor’s defeat was more unexpected than Lieberman’s, and less connected to his personal identity.
On Tuesday evening, some Cantor supporters discussed a Lieberman-style comeback, perhaps a write-in effort like that which Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski used in 2010 after her primary loss. Such an effort is unlikely. Yet–thanks in part to Cantor’s efforts–there are several Jewish Republican candidates eager to pick up where he left off.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/11/Jews-Wrestle-with-Cantor-Defeat
Like Joe in JT commented from a similar article posted on here,
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/house-majority-leader-eric-cantor-loses-virginia-gop-primary-ap-reports
I’m sure the Jews will pull a “Joe Lieberman” to get him back in the game. He’s too big of a name for the Jews to get rid of.
By the way, someone ought to tell the MSM, WHO GIVES A F**K what the Jews say!! What about what the American people say? Oh that’s right, the Zionist Jews control the media. Their view is more important than We the People’s. Hang ’em all!
its pretty simple in thought…not so simple in doing…We, US, just go to Israhell, disarm them of all nuc devices………and say, you bastards stole them from the american tax payer in the first place….One of the things that got JFK killed was this issue……
barfs…….that they are…
Get the hell out of the United States when you, the Israehell bribary group….don’t live here anyway…..
OH…with me,,,,this is a sticking point ………….dump the whole works in the ocean…the world would never miss them……..those that can swim….give um a hand….then maybe they will learn to live with all other peoples on planet earth…
My first thought on hearing of Cantor’s defeat was that this just might be the beginning of reclaiming America from the grip of this tiny parasitic minority. It’s too soon to tell just yet but if another Jew is defeated perhaps it does mean something significant is happening.
We, Gentile Americans, have to do everything necessary to remove as many Jews as possible from our body politic. This tiny minority of Americans, about 2% of our population, make up over 10% of Congress and 30% of the Supreme Court. Through this tiny minority and AIPAC Israel is able to control America’s foreign policy to suit its own ends to the detriment of America’s interests.
It has been for Israel’s interests that America has been involved in Middle Eastern wars and it has cost us in blood and treasure. It hasn’t cost Israel anything.
Eric Cantor never passed on a piece of legislation that would serve Israel’s interests. Perhaps he has finally paid the price for it.
cory! you make sense…I though, think something bold taken against Isarihell…the total theives they are even in the land they occupy, has to happen………look american’s have been taxed from day one of the creation of that murderous………lot of a land and still pour Billions of dollars into this shit hole, of what it is….
and this small minute moment, politically won’t do a damn thing to deter all the world from getting ripped off by those bastards….so there has to be a big hammer, hit them on the head……..what is that? I don’t know. This though won’t do one thing to change israhell…It may have to be physical…
The voting is rigged, so I don’t trust this “accident” or “upset”. I think it’s so the Jews can put him in a higher spotlight. Just my opinion.
Amen to the rigged elections comment.
We have yet to see what the real agenda is with this current media focus on “the J_ws”.
What a bizarre headline: “JEWS wrestle with Cantor defeat”. That implies he works for JEWS and not AMERICANS.
He DOES work for Jews…in Israel!
Only native born Americans should fill the various roles in their own government. How many non-Jews are voting members of the Israeli government? How many American non-Jews are there in the Israeli congress? My guess would be that there are more Jews in our government than there are jews in the Israeli government.
Great reading the comments… I am SICK to death of zionist scum. I’m very glad to be rid of at least one more. That’s icing on the cake to Cantor’s loss.
Defeat Chuckie Shumer and a few more Israel-firsters/dual citizens and I’ll start getting interested in the efficacy of “voting”…and then arrest Admiral McCain (if he’s still alive) and his son John for treason regarding the USS Liberty and betraying the Vietnam POWs!