David Brat, the economics professor who upset House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, said Tuesday after his shocking win that that his victory wasn’t a case of the tea party beating the GOP establishment because he ran on the “Republican creed.”
“If you go door to door knocking, the American people know the country is headed in the wrong direction,” Brat told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “I ran on the Republican creed.”
“The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street, and not enough attention to Main Street,” he said.
He also dismissed the notion that he had a far-right ideology, which led him to challenge Cantor. During the campaign, Brat repeatedly criticized Cantor for his alleged support of what Brat called “amnesty” as part of immigration reform.
“Just look at my biography,” he said. “There’s nothing hard right or far right about anything.”
“I ran on free markets,” he added later. “I don’t know that those are right or left.”
“I ran on free markets… I don’t know that those are right or left.”
Well, he’s got the disingenuous part down pretty well.
“too much attention to Wall Street, and not enough attention to Main Street”
“I ran on free markets”
I’m stumped.
Yeah, and he left out that whole trickle-down shit he probably teaches in class.
really, why?
Let me give you some examples.
When Obama pushes through the export-import bank, he’s supporting wall street and opposing the free market.
When Obama gives taxpayer money to Solyndra, he’s supporting wall street and opposing the free market.
Still not getting it.