EXCLUSIVE: Cantor says GOP is no longer 'relevant'

Get a good look. This is how they do it. Castro did it in Cuba, Lenin did it in Russia,Mao did it in China, and Chavez is trying to do it in Venezuela. The one party system, with NO OPPOSITION. The GOP better strap its holster on and get these fruitcake lefties in their sites and start attacking because it's going to be hell-to-pay for EVERY AMERICAN in a one-horse country.

Mr. Cantor is saying the GOP is out of touch with the problems of citizens. As a conservative Republican, I agree. While people were losing their homes, jobs and retirement accounts McCain's main message was he'd cut their taxes. I was wondering what world he was living in. People in desperate situations don't give a "darn" about their taxes being cut, they wanted to know what he'd do to help them. McCain later paid lip service, but stuck to his main message of cutting taxes. Obama spoke directly to the people's concerns, I doubt he'll do anything more than turn out to be a radical leftist preaching black liberation theology (Marxism), but he knew what to say to get elected. I believe McCain and Palin were two far superior leaders.

How does limited government, lower taxes, free markets and a strong national defense evolve to health care and social welfare programs? This is double speak.

Soxconn is right. Bush tried this with "compassionate conservatism" and that got us the largest expansion of government ever, and it's still growing under him, with the government now trying to swallow the auto industry. Pendamon is right too. Obama is poised to take us so far left that we'll have to turn right to find Castro. And who do we have to stop that? Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, Maverick McCain. We are doomed, unless the Conservative Republicans start educating the public.

Congressman Cantor will provide meaningful leadership for the GOP as a man of his word with a willingness to listen to his constituents whose life is structured around a value system to which he honestly adheres. Because he listens, he is genuinely in touch with the needs of the people. Because of his system of values, he accumulates and develops meaningful solutions to problems which will be of benefit both short-term and long-term. We have been very fortunate to have benefitted from his leadership in Virginia.

If a leader cannot identify with challenges that everyday people face, they need to step aside. In some cases, there are solutions within government control; if that is the case, then our leaders should legislate. I could not agree more with Mr. Cantor. www.raisingtherepublic.wordpress.com

When people only want and expect to receive from government, it's gonna take a special leader to "change" that. Obama has in fact "nurtured" that notion of expactation. The U.S. has tripped big time and has yet to fall hitting the ground. Only after falling hard and flat down is when the people will come to their senses. Even a rare attack on innocent civilians peacefully working in a building had very little effect other than a temporary shock effect on ordinary people throughout the country that lasted no more than months. Obama has zero credibility, zero experience, and zero training when it comes to being a leader. He's in the swamp and the populace have their hands out and mouths open expecting their lives to be dictated. Businesses are probably planning how and when to get out of dodge and where to go to salvage as much as they can of what is theirs at this time. The neither of the political parties are significantly relevant. The country is about to be fully in the hands of extremists with very convincing tongues who are bent on grasping power alone.

Compassionate Conservatism didn't work because it was another name for Big Government Liberal. Compassionate Conservatism would not have spent trillions to bail out big banks which may have deserved to fail. Compassionate Conservatism would have let AIG and the banks file Chapter 11. While the banks and AIG were filing, Washington should have been figuring out how to help individual citizens who were neither speculators or "liar buyers" keep their homes, and let the others file deeds in lieu of foreclosure. As it stands, Republicans are making the fat cats even richer while the housing market brings down the world economy.

. Now here is a troubling philosophy "... must stop simply espousing principles ..." in order to be "relevant". . That supposes that we have degraded into being a society with no principles. Our Fathers knew nothing of a society without moral principles. Shall we now pity our nation of people who have no principles. A nation of people which stands for nothing will fall at anything. Let us hope and pray that this Eric Cantor speaks only for himself.

Bravo! He deserves immediate support. His analysis of GOP shortcomings and future track seems very well considered. Perhaps he'll bring around more Jewish voters who should be against Democrats but seldom are. Very surprising habit of very smart people.

Cantor is right and he is no George Bush ... Building roads and fixing the health care system has nothing to do with "compassionate conservatism" which is handing out money for nothing. While in power the GOP wasted tax dollars on taking over the public school system with no results while allowing bridges to collapse and roads and airports to deteriorate. Unlike Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower who spent money wisely, GOP leaders were busy talking about Reagan principles while doing nothing at all. Eric Cantor is on the money. The GOP has become a do nothing organization that is so busy cutting away at social conservatives and populists in the party it has no time to govern. As a result the people turned to a party that will govern ... probably poorly ... but at least govern instead of in-fight.

"The Republican Party in Washington is no longer relevant" BALONEY ! The reason and the ONLY reason Republicans lost is because 98% African-Americans, 26 million illegal aliens and every brain-washed College student in the Country voted for Obama....that is how Republicans lost, the odds were against them. So now all the African-Americans, the illegal aliens can stand in line for their welfare checks and all the brain- dead college students can go back to text-messaging.......and we have to live with their mistakes. It's going to be a hell of a ride people so hang on to your wallets. . .

Maybe the republicans should take a survey across the board and see what the people out there might want. See what people think is fair and what should be done to restore faith in politicians. May be they can admit that Obama won because the Republicans lost track of real peoples' needs.In whose interests have the Republicans really worked these past years? Why does this nation have to conform to one set of conservative ideas? When did flexibility and open-mindedness become taboo? When did the spirit of the Constitution stop being a guide to govern? Why can't we look to other countries for inspiration when it comes to health care solutions, green solutions, economy and finding general solutions to social issues that other countries seem to be very comfortable with. If you truly represent the people then why not go and ask them what they think? Maybe the Republicans don't have to find a new plan of attack but find a new plan that works for all people. And maybe they can find a way to be opened minded and supportive while Obama tries to clean up the heap of detritus left behind by Bush.

This is what you get with the Democrats---unbridled arrogance. This guy better watch it. The voters giveth and the voters taketh away. The Dems wanted the power and now they have it, but they also have the TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY. So, bigmouth needs to put up or shut up. If they don't solve the economic crisis THEY brought on themselves by 2010, then the voters should THROW THEM OUT. So, who's relevant now, Can't-Er?

The GOP's abandonment of core principles for expediency once in power drove refugees from old Democratic Party in the 1970s and 1980s back to our roots. For me it's more personal because at every turn the party cheated me when I tried for the 2008 presidential nomination by doing things like refusing my check for $15,000 so I could participate in the Ames Straw Poll or removing my name from an important online party Iowa straw poll when I took the lead with 52% of the vote. The last thing the GOP wanted was an outsider rattling its cage with new ideas good enough to bring out Iowa Republicans to swamp the "approved" contenders. (MARK KLEIN, M.D.)