Among all the explanations for why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was so easily defeated by an Economics professor with as little money as he has political experience, the most ridiculous is that from the left attempting to blame antisemitism. Yes, really.
There will be lots of 2nd guessing tmw on Cantor loss #VA07. Surely will focus on debt ceiling/leadership role, but his religion a role too?
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) June 10, 2014
Never mind that Virginians elected Jewish Cantor seven times before this, and didn’t seem to mind that he was Jewish. No, it must be some kind of bigotry because peevish, tiny liberal lizard-brains can’t possibly conceive of any other explanation for election results! Twitchy found many tweets implying the surprise bigotry:
“@Redistrict: but his religion a role too?” Tea partiers hate non Christians
— DickinsonForCongress (@VoteMike2014) June 11, 2014
Did Eric Cantor Lose Because He's Jewish? http://t.co/T2kdWC85zz
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 11, 2014
Cantor is only Jewish Republican in Congress still, right?
— Ben Goodman (@BenGoodman) June 11, 2014
So the only Jewish Republican in Congress (either house) is about to lose his primary?
— David S. Bernstein (@dbernstein) June 10, 2014
Eric Cantor was the only Jewish Republican in Congress.
— Asher Huey (@asherhuey) June 11, 2014
It can't be undersold that Eric Cantor was the last Jewish Congressional Republican.
— Ben Erickson (@eric1743) June 11, 2014
What happened to Eric Cantor? Did his district find out he's Jewish?
— Will Saletan (@saletan) June 11, 2014
Damn, Eric Cantor. Also, possibly of note: the Republican party just primaried out its only Jewish Congressman.
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) June 11, 2014
Also tonight, GOP Jewish caucus basically shattered. Or decimated ten times over.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 11, 2014
The real news here is that the House Republican Jewish caucus has just lost 100% of its membership #VA07 #Cantor
— Abigail Collazo (@LeftStandingUp) June 11, 2014
This guy can barely hold himself back!
OK #Jewish politicos, how does everyone feel about Eric Cantor's loss to this #teaparty dude Brat? Trying to hold my anti-tea rhetoric back.
— Y-Love (@ylove) June 11, 2014
Great political analysis from the pea-brained left! I guess everyone in his district suddenly discovered he was Jewish in time for this election just like when America suddenly discovered Obama was black after we elected him and became raging racists!