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Subscribe to RSSBALTIMORE, MD -- The second-ranking House Republican suggested Friday he could step into the presidential race and make an endorsement before a nominee is decided.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (VA), during a briefing at the House GOP's retreat this weekend in Baltimore, said that he prefers a speedy conclusion to the presidential primary.
"The more we can coalesce around a single nominee the more straightforward the choice will be for the for American people," Cantor said. "I dont know if i'll endorse before it's over. I'm leaving the option open."
Like House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Cantor has remained officially neutral throughout the primary process. Mitt Romney has collected a number of endorsements, though, from high-profile Republicans on Capitol Hill. Newt Gingrich has also won some support, namely from fellow Georgians and a few lawmakers who had served on Capitol Hill during his speakership.
House GOP Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling had previously been the highest-ranking member of the Republican leadership to make an endorsement; Hensarling backed a fellow Texan, Gov. Rick Perry. (Perry ended his campaign this week.)
Cantor suggested that the GOP might be anxious to coordinate its message more closely with a nominee once the race has been decided.
"Ed Gillespie told our conference that the House should be in close coordination with the nominee one that has been decided," referring to the GOP powerbroker, Gillespie, a cofounder of American Crossroads.
Cantor also noted, though, that he hadn't spoken to Romney in "a while."
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I just read about Eric Cantor on Wikipedia and it made for interesting reading. All I can say is that he's never had a real job since he began his political career a little over 20 years ago. Of course HE doesn't want to bring the bill to the House floor that would force the Representatives to disclose their stock trades on a regular base...what's he hiding?
This election gets funnier by the day. SNL will have enough material for several years. The sad part is some of these folks really believe the majority of Americans support them and their snake flag waving idiocy. John Adams sponsored the first tea party and if here today would be aghast at the body politic spending two years trying to defeat the sitting president while doling a dance on our freedom and well- being. It is noteworthy that he joined Thomas Jefferson in the belief that a real democracy can only be maintained by a new revolution every hundred years or so. If the right continues to distort the election process by gerrymandered districts and a paid for Supreme Court we may arrive at that appointment soon. I hope the days of the Cantors and their ilk are short and we can resume our march to be the torch of democracy and not the joke in the cloakroom. Enlightened 1%'s like Buffet know the truth of this!
We should have another Tea Party. Only this time we should throw the Teabaggers into Boston Harbor!!
Please, please, please run Eric Cantor against Obama! I know where my vote would lie!
Eric Cantor, you haven't done your job! You have done nothing but obstruct Congress! Although you made the debt increase a major point during Obama's presidency, you voted no less than 5 times to increase the national debt under Bush. Why?
Why are debt increases under a Republican president OK? But under a Democratic president, they suck?
Most importantly, why do those increases under a Republican president, that trash the economy, OK, but under a Democratic president, trying to save the economy from a depression caused by the Republican president, they suck?
Cantor, you have a lot of 'splainin' to doooo;
Eric Cantor would endorse Newt Gingrich if he came out publicly. John Boehner would endorse Romney if he came out publicly. Boehner has no balls, he lets his party roll all over him, and Eric Cantor is the "Shadow Speaker." I can't stand Eric Cantor's idiotic politics, but what is even worse is his whispy, whining accent. He is the most annoying member of Congress.
Cantor and DeMint will both manifest their courageous leadership qualities by possibly endorsing whoever has probably won.
"Crazy Cantor" is the biggest Tea Begger of all! He is the dancing GOP Clown with rotten tea bags hanging off his ears. Again! His "Crazy GOP Cronies" voted to destroy Social Security. Then the GOP Lobbyists voted to give even larger tax payer oil subsidies to Big Oil. The "Hoodlum's On The Hill" were not done yet America! They then took the "Zombie Tax Pledge" of "Goofy Grover." As ordered by their leader "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell." It is very important that they destroy an American President.
Cantor is nothing but a pin head pud wacker.
With this GOP line up for 2012 it does not matter who the idiot endorses, Obama will win, because the American people are fully aware now of the GOP agenda, crush the middle class.
I find it very very funny that the tea baggers are handing Obama his second term. And they don't even realize it.
Newt / Paul 2012 Enough said. They together can get enough GOP votes to win the soul of the party!!
To anyone with any common sense, or a functioning brain, Eric Cantor is irrelevant, a fool!