Haaretz
U.S. politicians and political commentators were reeling Wednesday after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the most senior Jewish official in government, stunned observers by losing his seat to Tea Party challenger Dave Brat, an economics professor at a military academy, in Tuesday’s Republican primary to represent Virginia’s 7th Congressional District.
“The dream of a Jewish Republican speaker of the House is no more,” wrote Politico’s Alexander Burns. “[F]or Jewish Republicans, Cantor is a singular figure, the only Jewish member of the House majority and the lone Jewish leader in a party that has strenuously courted the community in recent presidential elections, to little avail.”
Matt Brooks, the president of the Republican Jewish Coalition, went so far as to call Cantor’s defeat “one of those incredible, evil twists of fate that just changed the potential course of history.”
“There are other leaders who will emerge, but Eric was unique and it will take time and there’s nobody quite like Eric in the House to immediately fill those shoes,” Brooks said. “I was certainly hoping that Eric was going to be our first Jewish speaker.
David Wasserman, a House political analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said Cantor was culturally out of step with a redrawn district that was more rural, more gun-oriented and more conservative.
“Part of this plays into his religion,” Wasserman told The New York Times. “You can’t ignore the elephant in the room.”
But that doesn’t mean there’s no room for humor. “‘Brat Upsets Cantor’ is the name of my bar mitzvah memoir,” tweeted Dave Gilson, a senior editor at Mother Jones.
Cantor’s ouster may leave congressional Republicans without a non-Christian member, theHuffington Post reported.
In January of last year, the House had 161 Protestant members, 61 Catholic, seven Mormons and three Orthodox Christians, according to Pew Research Center data cited by the Huffington Post. Cantor was the GOP’s only Jew in either the House or the Senate.
Jewish Democrats are losing ground too. In 2012 Protestants and Jews experienced the biggest declines in numerical terms, according to Pew data. At the time, Jews held 33 seats (6 percent), six fewer than in the previous Congress, where Jews held 39 seats (7 percent).
Of course, the shock outcome is about more than Jews in politics. The election is “a bad omen for moderates,” The New York Times reported.
“The results tonight will move the party further to the right, which will marginalize us further as a national party,” said Representative Peter T. King, a Republican from New York.
A similar sentiment was expressed on the other side of the aisle.
“Tonight’s result in Virginia settles the debate once and for all – the Tea Party has taken control of the Republican Party. Period,” said Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida congresswoman who heads the Democratic National Committee. “When Eric Cantor, who time and again has blocked common sense legislation to grow the middle class, can’t earn the Republican nomination, it’s clear the GOP has redefined ‘far right.'”
The majority leader’s loss was the biggest electoral shock to the House since 1994, the L.A. Times wrote. At that time, Speaker Thomas Foley, a Washington Democrat, was “swept out of office in the GOP tidal wave that ushered in Republican control.”
“It was a stunning, unimaginable, impossible, defeat,” the paper quoted Stuart Rothenberg, who publishes the Rothenberg Political Report, a nonpartisan analysis of elections, as saying. “This is the political version of the San Francisco earthquake. It came out of nowhere.”
One measure of what The New York Times called “the extraordinary defeat” could be seen in a spending comparison. Since the beginning of last year, the paper reported, Cantor’s campaign spent about $168,637 just at steakhouses, not much less than the $200,000 Brat spent on his entire campaign.
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#1 by CK on 06/11/2014 - 9:34
Not to worry. I’m sure the new guy loves Israel, too.
#2 by Tony from IN on 06/11/2014 - 9:34
Everything is ok, as this “tea party” person is just as pro war and pro Israel as all the others!!
#3 by fake jews complain on 06/11/2014 - 9:34
these zionist fascist jews in america are getting scared, they know what is coming, even in isrelhell they are claiming that the jews are not really jews anymore but fake jews, ” Leaked report: Israel acknowledges Jews in fact Khazars; Secret plan for reverse migration to Ukraine” quote. The world is waking up to the chaos created by the FAKE JEWS., from Isrehell.
#4 by Vickie Jacobs on 06/11/2014 - 9:34
Maybe it wasn’t such a bad ‘stun.’ If many Catholics are following the Popes leaning toward Israel than it doesn’t look very Jewish control.
#5 by Dr. Tony on 06/11/2014 - 9:34
Now every Jew in congress and the senate is a democrat except one. He is a socialist. The myth of Judeo-Christian is bullshit. Conservative Christians who support Israel are damn fools . They live in a fantasy world.
#6 by mlo on 06/11/2014 - 9:34
Bye bye, scumbag. Go get a job in Israel, where you really belong.
#7 by Flor on 06/11/2014 - 9:34
Yes kick them out of the US’ Most Euro-Americans are hard working’ these low lifes have been stealing everything via FAKE FREE TRADES’ NAFTA’ WTO’where these hebrews became so wealthy at the expense of US working class’ US working class are homeless now’
Thank you’
#8 by NLG on 06/11/2014 - 9:34
Bogus. Brat may not be Jewish but what do you want to bet he’s just as pro Israel? Oh, and Cantor is a “moderate.” What does that even mean? Is wanting to blow up Iran! start a war with Russia, invade Syria moderate? There’s a huge mind fu€k going on here. Excuse my appalling language, but how else to describe it?
#9 by Shari Peterson on 06/11/2014 - 9:34
The new guy is as much an Israel lover as the last one so who really cares? Nothing will change, The American political process will still be guarded by AIPAC. The Congressman will still sign loyalty pacts with Israel. Nothing will change.
#10 by bigcree1 on 06/12/2014 - 9:34
All supremacist jews OUT! AIPAC, JINSA, JDL, WINEP, SPLC. All of you are hereby served Notice. Get OUT of the U.S. and leave forever. Pack your bags and go live in Birobidjan OR face the coming tide of livid people ready and willing to take you ALL to the gallows.
#11 by Isaac on 06/12/2014 - 9:34
All these Jews are Ashkenazim, they come from a region called Kazaria which is between Poland and Russia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, 900 miles away from Palestine. Most of the Jews living in New York are Khazarian by ancestry, their language is Yiddish (German, Slav, Ancient Khazar, and a little bit of Hebrew thrown in). They are not Hebrew Jews, they converted to this satanic cult centuries ago, they don’t belong in Palestine and anywhere. they cause all kinds of calamities in the countries where they invade like Palestine and the US Government.
#12 by michael mazur on 06/12/2014 - 9:34
Isn’t the last para extraordinary ? Apples and Oranges comparison in campaign spending.
Can’t Haaretz see that we not only can spot the attempt at concealment, but we can also spot the attempt to invert the numbers ?
#13 by shafarnullifidian on 06/12/2014 - 9:34
The SCOTUS consists of 6 Catholics and 3 Jews. So the Jews who are about 2% tops, of the U.S. population have 1/3 of the seats on the Supreme Court. Catholic doctrine “teaches” that all authority comes from God. So you’ve got 6 Papists in positions of authority whose religion tells them more or less that they’re God’s Holy Spookpersons.( Don’t dare doubt me on this one–Catechism classes through grammar and junior high school, Catholic High School, Catholic College!) And the very thought that the other three are Jews is enough to give any thinking person a baaaaad case of the HEEBIE JEEBIES! With Ginsburg’s health in hardly more than on “life support” and tagged as “Do Not Resuscitate, I see her replacement being a bi-sexual female Jew,”whose grandparents and Great Uncles and Aunts all died in the Holocaust” but the records were destroyed in a fire, whose legal practice has been limited to defending pedophile rabbis, advocating for mohels with HIV AIDS to be able to continue with barbaric butchering Jew babies penises and then fellating them and making Holocaust Revisionism a capital crime and the gas chamber as the means of execution. If you don’t think that Jews hold positions of influence of influence in every state in the country to pull something like this off, you better wake up and smell the pickled herring. All I can say is that Cantor must have really pissed off some very important Jews, else this would NEVER EVER HAPPENED. You think Jews would not kill some Jews if wasn’t good for Jews long term??? Then you don’t know the history of how the Zionists got Jews to immigrate to Israelin the late 40s and 50’s. False flag operation of blowing up synagogues in Arab countries and blaming it of anti-Semitic terrorists. they did it all over the Middle East and parts of North Africa and even in South America.
#14 by bigcree1 on 06/12/2014 - 9:34
Issac, add Canada. Supreme zionist suckup, Stephen Harper. Gag me!!!
#15 by Duke of Wawbeek on 06/12/2014 - 9:34
First of all the Jews are a race not a religion. I wish them no ill will but I long to see America free from the death grip of Zionism.
#16 by Isaac on 06/13/2014 - 9:34
Yes Duke, the Jews are a diabolical race masqueraded as a religion but that religion is also a diabolical cult. Many people don’t even know because they don’t have a knowledge of the Babylonian Talmud, the Torah and the Kabbalah the most sacred and religious books of the Jews which are an insult, and a blasphemy to human race and Christianity. It’s beyond “chutzpah” beyond insolence.
#17 by michael mazur on 06/14/2014 - 9:34
Last sentence. __Since the beginning of last year, the paper reported, Cantor’s campaign spent about $168,637 just at steakhouses, not much less than the $200,000 Brat spent on his entire campaign___
Since posting yesterday, i’ve found in the WSJ that Cantor and Brat had donations $5.7m and $231k, respectively, a 25:1 ratio.
Jews simply can’t help themselves, they lie lie lie, compulsively, when it comes to telling us anything, even if they know they’ll be caught out, it seems.
Such, such pathological liars.