[elklindo69]

It's the economy stupid?

Apparently not, to Virginia conservatives who picked Brat who won the primary based upon an immigration platform. They must be so well off that jobs don't matter when the U-6 unemployment rate is around 12%.

WOW!!!

[RealJustme]

It's the economy stupid?

Apparently not, to Virginia conservatives who picked Brat who won the primary based upon an immigration platform. They must be so well off that jobs don't matter when the U-6 unemployment rate is around 12%.

Elk, you need slow down and inform yourself before you stick your foot in your mouth.

Brat has a PHD in Economics, exactly what this Congress needs...not another lawyer.

[elklindo69]

However, during the late stages of his primary campaign, Mr. Brat railed against immigration reform and hammered Mr. Cantor on the issue. On this subject, he’s not my kind of guy. He is violating his free-market economic principles.

Breitbart reporter Jonathan Strong writes, “The story about how David Brat pulled off such a monumental surprise win starts, and almost ends, with immigration.” Strong details how Mr. Brat engaged in wild hyperbole, paraphrasing Mr. Brat as saying, “No member of Congress had done more to enact amnesty than Cantor.”

NRO contributor Fred **** reports that “Brat emphasized the effects of the White House immigration agenda on average working Americans, saying that a vote for Cantor was ‘a vote for open borders and lower wages.’”

Robert Costa of the Washington Post reports that Mr. Brat hammered Mr. Cantor for championing a Republican version of the DREAM Act, which would enable some illegal immigrants who entered the country as children to qualify for in-state college tuition rates.

So while Mr. Brat’s free-market economics message sounds perfect, his anti-immigration-reform message is quite troublesome. This kind of rhetoric suggests that the Eric Cantor defeat might doom any immigration reform and the GOP effort to become the Big Tent party in the run-up to 2016.

Many conservatives disagree with me on this, and I respect that. However, I still believe that harsh language on illegals turns off legal Hispanic voters. It also turns off Asians, African Americans, young people, and women.

As I have written, in order to capture the presidency, the Republican party must follow the lead of President Reagan and Jack Kemp and return to its Big Tent roots. The GOP must become inclusive by reaching out to everybody.

As an economist, in fact a free-market economist, Mr. Brat surely knows that immigration reform will not lower wages and eliminate jobs for native Americans. Other immigration opponents routinely use this argument. But it is false. It is unproven.

[johnforbes]

First, amnesty was not the only issue.

Second, the kid crisis at the southern border shows the insanity of the sort of "comprehensive" reform Cantor, Boehner, and Rubio wanted -- amnesty now, security later (i.e., never).

Third, Virginia's conservatives are in dandy shape. A lot better than flabby liberals.

[RealJustme]

La Raza is upset that Cantor lost and claims the loss sets them back...hmmmmmm interesting!