You know, I used to have a great deal of respect for Peter King, the Republican who represents New York’s 2nd District. As a strong supporter of the ‘War on Terror’ I saw him as being someone who, or at least I thought, would put the interests of America about all else. But that was before. Before he decided to finally come fully out of the shadows so that we would all then be able to recognize him for the RINO that he has apparently been all along.
King has long been a very vocal opponent of the Tea Party, to the point where, these days, he sounds much more like a Democrat than he does a Republican. And the events of last night where we saw Eric Cantor get what he so rightfully deserved has, apparently, caused King to become a bit unravelled. Because according to him, Republicans can't allow the primary defeat of Cantor to open the door for the "Ted Cruzes and the Rand Pauls to take over." I disagree!
Cantor's defeat in Virginia's Republican primary Tuesday to economics professor Dave Brat is said to have sent shock waves through political circles. Brat walked away with the primary win with 55.5 percent of the vote to Cantor's 45.5 percent. Polls leading into the election showed Cantor with a comfortable lead over Brat. And the loss certainly has spurred King to throw around all manner of rather incendiary remarks that I never thought I would hear coming from him.
It was during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that King made the claim that the approach of fellow Republican Sen. Cruz of Texas tarnished the party's brand when he led the shutdown of the government in October. King said the "overwhelming majority of the country" thought lawmakers were "crazy" and "irresponsible" to have allowed it to happen. Well maybe that’s how the whiners in our growing entitlement class saw things, but not me!
King warned that the politics of the more conservative GOP party members such as Ted Cruz and Rand Paul would be detrimental to the GOP because he claimed they did not represent conservative views. King seemed to try to back up his claim saying, "What Ted Cruz did last year was suicidal. I hope that doesn't become party policy. So, we can't allow Eric's defeat last night, allow the Ted Cruzes and the Rand Paul’s to take over the party, or their disciples to take over the party."
According to King, "This is not conservatism. To me, shutting down the government is not being a conservative." Personally, I no longer think this fraud even knows what conservatism really is. He’s another one of those people who, like Cantor, enjoy going around calling themselves conservative, but they really aren’t. And the only time they even sound like conservatives is at election time. Then as soon as they get themselves re-elected it’s back to business as usual.
King said he didn't think anyone in the House on Tuesday had anticipated Cantor would lose. I’m sure they didn’t, I didn’t either. But that didn’t keep me from hoping that it would happen. King said, "Yesterday, if you went around the House floor, people thought that if Eric got less than 65 percent of the vote it would have been considered a defeat. It was just a question of how high the majority was going to be." Well, it happened, Pete, so get over it!
It's still uncertain whether or not Cantor's position on immigration reform was what motivated voters to get rid of him. On Monday, Cantor had renewed a push on amnesty reform for children, urging Barry "Almighty" to work with Congress on moving forward on legislation. King said he was concerned Cantor's loss would not only slow down possible immigration reform, but all legislation leading into the fall midterm elections. So you see, this guy too is a big supporter of amnesty. Too bad we can’t rid of his dumb ass too!
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