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By: Olympia Meola
Published: May 05, 2009 6:16 PM
Jeff E. Schapiro has this on Eric Cantor:
As the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, the 7th District congressman is getting a lot of attention. Some he could probably do without.
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative broadcaster, took a shot at Cantor the other day, claiming the Virginian—in efforts to jump-start the GOP—is freezing out Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor and defeated candidate for vice president.
Limbaugh was in lather over the National Council for a New America. The group, started by Cantor and other Republicans, held a town hall-style meeting in very blue Arlington last weekend, featuring Cantor, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, another unsuccessful presidential wannabe last year.
Limbaugh said the three suffered from “presidential perspirations;” that by not including Palin, they were ignoring a “prominent, articulate voice ... for good old-fashioned American conservatism.”
Turns out, however, that Palin is involved in the National Council for a New America, serving as an adviser. The spokeswoman for Palin’s political-action committee told Politico, the political web site, that Palin is looking forward to participating.
In a written statement, Cantor aide Stacey Johnson says the nascent organization—could it be to the GOP what the centrist Democratic Leadership Council has been to the Democratic Party?—“does not pretend to have all the answers,” and that it will engage “other national leaders, grassroots activists and citizens ... to work with us to solve problems with common-sense conservative solutions.”
And then this—from the left: Rolling Stone is reporting on its National Affairs blog that Cantor may not have really been considered for the vice presidency. Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson, quoting an unnamed source, writes, “That the story that Eric Cantor—the ‘rising star’ of the GOP—came anywherenear to being John McCain’s running mate is bunk.”
When that story broke last summer, The Times-Dispatch and other news organizations reported that Cantor had been asked by the McCain organization to supply background material. Cantor never put much stock in reports he might end up the ticket.
But the Rolling Stone post suggests Cantor’s public-relations team was pumping up the story.
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