Daily Kos: Cantor wants you to believe he's really a nice guy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

What a douchebag

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, poster child for holding government hostage, holding disaster relief hostage, sabotaging talks between the president and the House, walking out of talks between the president and the House, condemning the Occupy protests as "mobs" whereas the tea partiers were nice, upstanding patriots and such, is sad. He is sad because he thinks he's being unfairly demonized for, well, doing all that stuff I just mentioned. So he is launching a campaign to show everyone that he's really a nice guy:

Cantor is allowing CBS News’s “60 Minutes” cameras into his life, filming his three children and wife to show that he’s not the hard-line ideologue that has become the object of Democratic caricature. He’s invited the “60 Minutes” cameras to spend Thanksgiving with his family; Leslie Stahl is slated to be the reporter on the piece.
In an effort to humanize him, Cantor’s staff has started an online video series called “Snapshot of the Leader,” which depicts Cantor’s daily routine in short bits. The first installment had him talking about the “American dream” and “trying to promote achievement and success for everyone.” There will be a dozen of these rolled out on Cantor’s website.

See there? He can't possibly be a guy who would rather drive government to the brink of default than allow even one damn cent more taxes on extremely rich Americans and corporations while blocking tax cuts directed towards workers and the middle class. He's got a family. Nobody with a family can possibly be an asshole.

Cantor planned a speech at the University of Pennsylvania to talk about a favorite progressive topic — income inequality. His speech included hundreds of words about his immigrant grandmother, who came to the United States from Eastern Europe and lived above her late husband’s supermarket in Richmond, Va., after being widowed at age 30.
But the event was canceled when the Service Employees International Union and the Occupy Philadelphia protest movement threatened to fill the 300-person audience. That won’t stop Cantor — he has upcoming speeches planned at Northwestern University and Rice University. Of the cancellation at Penn, Cantor said there was “no sense” in giving a speech about “trying to pull people together” to an audience of “100 percent professional protesters.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/27/1030296/-Eric-Cantor-launches-drive-to-make-you-realize-how-nice-he-is

[HopeHoops]

1. He still needs a turbo wedgie and a bucket of port-o-potty sludge dumped on his head.

[HopeHoops]

2. Yo' Cantor - NEWS FLASH - those aren't your kids!

You need a functional unit and an opportunity to put it to use to make children - neither applies, wimp boy.

[Frustratedlady]

3. Leslie must have signed a promise not to ask any hard questions.

Sorry, Cantor! Too little, too late.

Besides, I tend to make my determination of a person's honesty and charity by their eyes. You have cold, mean eyes. The eyes never lie...they are a mirror of the soul and your soul is heartless.

[TBMASE]

4. Hitler loved his dogs

:)

[Turbineguy]

6. And he liked to touch a child's cheek

before sending them out to get killed.

[tularetom]

5. In the current world of American politics there is nobody all around creepier than Eric Cantor

He's right up there with my previous favorites Tom Delay and Joe Lieberman.

My granddaughter says he makes her skin crawl.

[WCGreen]

7. Very smug the way he talks with that little smirk...

[provis99]

8. nice guy? I always thought he was a smarmy little turd.

he's not even significant enough to be a big turd.

[Bake]

9. What's a "professional protester?"

I didn't know you could get paid for that!

Bake

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. They should ask John Boner how he really feels about Eric Canker

Boner knows he could get a shiv in the back at any time from Eric the knifer.

[graywarrior]

11. Walking Dead is more believable than a 60 minute fluff piece on that little dink

[GOTV]

12. Why would 60 minutes agree to create and air a Cantor campaign commercial?

[durablend]

13. Follow...the....money n/t