I agree with you Wally. Never heard Rigel take any stand on controversial issues either. He used his money for influence and is now probably calling the chips. He will not get my vote.

Bet you won't approve this post either!

You are so off the mark. Cantor also endorsed Marco Rubio.

Cantor is endorsing only CONSERVATIVE candidates.



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The electorate in VA-2 has a real candidate in this race: General Bert Mizusawa. I attended secondary school here in the district with Bert and he is a West Point classmate. He graduated first in our class at West Point and is the ONLY member of our class to have earned the Silver Star in combat (he also has a Bronze Star). He's got a Harvard Law degree, a Harvard Kennedy School of Government Masters Degree in Public Administration, has served as a staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is a small business owner, a conservative, has integrity of the first order, and has outraised Scott Rigell and all the other candidates in the last four months of this race. Anyone who knows Scott Rigell knows he is a "nice guy" and a successful businessman -- but he doesn't begin to have the requisite knowledge or intellectual horsepower to effectively serve this district -- the MOST military district in the nation. Other candidates have tarnished integrity or have been unable to mount a serious effort. A book hit American bookseller shelves last week entitled "Dangerous Games" and it chronicles the stories of American heroes from the Cold War years. There is an entire chapter dedicated to General Bert Mizusawa. He's a living, walking hero and is the kind of guy you'd bump into at Farm Fresh or on a fishing pier. He doesn't have a yacht that he has played a shell game with like Scott Rigell who has parked his behemoth over by Hooters and changed its title to his corporate account. Mizusawa has spent his entire adult life serving this nation with honor and is ready to be a true voice for the people who are concerned about the direction this country is headed and the acrimony in Congress. Bert knows what needs to be done and, more importantly, knows HOW to get it done. If you watch the POD-cast from the Bearing Drift debate last week, you will see how he stands out as the singular choice in this field. In fairness to Scott Rigell, he opted to attend an "Urban League" dinner rather than participate in this debate, but that comes as no surprise to anyone who knows that there's not alot of creme in Scott's intellectual Twinkie. As this editorial points out, he's a voice, but offers very little vision and no original thought. When elected, Bert Mizusawa will be the only Army general in Congress, the most-highly decorated post-Vietnam era veteran in Congress, and the one freshman Congressman in the nation who is truly ready to hit the ground running on Day 1. He doesn't need a primer on "How a Bill Becomes Law" and does not need anyone to show him where the Ways and Means Committee deliberates. Eric Cantor may know that Scott Rigell has been generous to him and to many other serving Republicans, but he doesn't much about this district and doesn't realize that we are ready for REAL leadership in Congress. I'd vote for a guy who put his life on the line time and time again, fighting for freedom any and every time before I'd vote for a guy who named his business "Freedom" and paid alot of money to candidates (including liberals like Barrack Obama and Mark Warner) to pave his way. More importantly,
Cantor doesn't vote in this district and I do and so do my neighbors. This will be a blend of Massachusetts and upstate New York where the voters take a seat from the Democrats by voting for a candidate that the party elite should have considered before annointing a rich guy. We've all had enough of that.

It's interesting that a poster in this thread refers to Conservative.

I guess he or she feels Cantor's vote against HR 2682 to stop federal law enforcement officials from being able to easily seize library and bookstore records is Conservative.

Or

Voting for HR 5825 which endorsed ongoing warrantless electronic surveillance and allow, but not require, the administration to submit the program to a secret national security court for review.
The was later deemed unconstitutional.

Is this your definition of CONSERVATIVE?

Also, Cantor is quite the embellish-er:

“A bullet was shot through the window of my campaign office in Richmond this week, and I’ve received threatening e-mails,” Cantor said. He refused to release details, however, saying it would only encourage more threats, and refused to take questions.

Later Thursday, however, Richmond police said in a news release that the bullet had been fired into the air around 1 a.m. Tuesday. It finished its random arc back to earth at a sharp downward trajectory, breaking a window pane on the bottom floor of the two-story brick building where Cantor’s campaign leases the top floor.

Sounds like he would make a great used car salesman!

Late note

Another Cantor endorsed candidate, Marco Rubio, is now under investigation by the IRS for his improper reporting of Republican funds for personal use.