Incoming House GOP Leader: My Party Is No Longer "Relevant"

Washington Times :

Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, poised to ascend to House Republicans' No. 2 leader this week, said the Republican Party in Washington is no longer "relevant" to voters and must stop simply espousing principles. Instead, it must craft real solutions to health care and the economy.

"Where we have really fallen down is, we have lacked the ability to be relevant to people's lives. Let's set aside the last eight years, and our falling down in living up to expectations of what we said we were going to do," Mr. Cantor told The Washington Times in his district office outside of Richmond. "It's the relevancy question."

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Comments

[suekzoo]

Mr. Cantor,

Your party became irrelevant because after 30 years, the middle class could no longer afford to be trickled down on.

[Joeblue]

You never were relevant.

[JohnFromCensornati]

"Let's set aside the last eight years"

No, let's not. And, while we're at it, let's not fall for the Moonies and their propagand@.

[mcantwell]

Yeah right.....­this coming from the cry baby who whined about Pelosi. I personally don't care much for Pelosi or the Bailout, but for goodness sake get a backbone!

[theone718]

Barack Obama EXPOSED them for this. He said himself we won't be DISTRACTED by all the silly fake news stories of the Republican party. Time to get back to the issues that matter in the lives of the American people.

[fredamae]

You are Correct...­"your Party is no longer relevant".
Y'all shot yourselves in the foot while practicing extreme interference in Peoples rights and while tearing Away the Constitutional rights of All.

You attempted to take the Country, as a whole backwards. You tried to Force feed your pricipals and righteousness while being hypocritical and practicing a "double standard".­...making Excuses for those in your party, in Violation of party pricipals.­..at the same time trying to "damn" eberyone else in similar circumstances.

You suffer the consequences of the condition of "Narcissistic Personality Disorder"
Don't believe it? check out the symptoms:
http://psychcentral.com/disorders/sx36.htm

We, the People reject what Your Party has Become over the past 26 years.

Good Bye---Sirs and Madams of the "Conservative Rightwing Extremists".

This is a very dark smear in the history of your party. Shame on You ALL!

[PackyJ]

Huh. A Repub actually gets it!

[nellie]

He gets half of it. The other half—the animosity toward Americans who aren't white and Christian and heterosexu­al—t­hat still seems to be going under the radar.

[IslandGyal]

WOW, moments of clarity and honesty from a republican, geeez; has hell frozen over?

[StephenDedalus82]

Representative heal thyself. Don't waive around a copy of Nancy Pelosi's speech and claim that it hurt your feelings therefore you are going to take your bailout bill and go home. Start acting like mature human beings who are prepared to do the job you sought.

[Pupster]

Yeah, his introduction to a wider public was his whiny voice complaining about Pelosi hurting his feellings, which was mocked hilariously by Jon Stewart.

If this is the future of the Repub Party, the Dems don't have much to worry about.

[ebanks84]

Now ain't that the truth! I'm impressed. A republican speaking the truth. Wow. What's happening in the world?

[kellygrrrl]

"Let's set aside the last 8 years."
uhm, NO! NEVER! The GOP will wear the Bush/Cheney albatross until the end of time

[huffyISaHottie]

this is the same clown who in front of a tv camera while flashing a copy of the nancy pelosi speach she made to the house and said , paraphrasi­ng..."this is the reason we cant agree on a bailout package"..­...his f'n feelings were hurt.....w­hat a pathetic creature this guy is

[iPolitics]

Ding, ding, ding, ding.

USA, Center-LEFT

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This Cantor fella is a scary-lookin' S.O.B. Looks kinda like Sylvester Stallone as Rocky or Rambo. And he talks mean, too, like DeLay. Let's hope he runs his big mouth so much that Obama can play off him to advantage, sort of the way he used Sean Hannity in the campaign.
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[mommadona]

And the "Prince of the RedMeat" is their "leader"?

Out of touch is redundant here.

Out of their cotton-pickin' minds is the reality.

That bird can't fly with one big ol' right wing on steroids.

*plop!

[soupson52]

giggle. Thanks for a big laugh this a.m.!