"Where we have really fallen down is, we have lacked the ability to be relevant to people's lives. Let's set aside the last eight years, and our falling down in living up to expectations of what we said we were going to do," Mr. Cantor told The Washington Times in his district office outside of Richmond. "It's the relevancy question."
As chief deputy whip, Mr. Cantor, 45, was the logical choice to move up when Republicans' current whip, Rep. Roy Blunt, stepped aside - something Mr. Blunt announced days after Republicans lost at least 20 seats in the House.
A week before Wednesday's leadership elections, Mr. Cantor offered a bleak assessment of his party and where it's fallen: technology, preparedness for political realities, such as the next round of redistricting, and pursuing its ideals.
Most of all, he said, Republicans have been content to offer principles, rather than concrete solutions. Voters, he said, have punished them for it.
More her from the Washington Times.
This can be viewed a number of different ways, none of them shead much of a positive light on the GOP.
While they have been primarily the "lip-service" party over the last 8 years - more specifically in the last 24 months - they have proven to been even less of a party of "action", a claim that they have been placing upon the Democrats in congress since they took power back in 2006.
Their ideology is what has made them irrelevant. The media that has attempted to burnish their image and further their ideology is just as irrelavent as they are.
Well, at least someone in the party is honest with why they were losers earlier this month.
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