Meet the young Republican who got rid of Eric Cantor

[eridani]

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18560/eric-cantor-zachary-werrell-john-boehner-gop

What are the major lessons that you wanted to share in your book?

People need to know more about this historic upset than just the headlines. They need to see the inner workings, the struggles, the machinations, so that they too, may, unseat their RINO congressmen! This book is very much a how-to in narrative form. The biggest lesson is that being right is not enough to win. What was the difference between Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan? They were philosophically identical, but Reagan had a much better operation, and far more activists and organizations to help him.

What is the Tea Party movement to you? How has it been successful?

The Tea Party to me is less a cohesive philosophical bloc and more a general sentiment: “I am fed up with the Republicans, the Democrats, the government in general.” When I first got involved, it was a few random Ron Paul supporters literally throwing tea into bodies of water to make a statement. Its ranks were quickly filled out by more typical conservatives—the grassroots writ large. This sort of passion is useful in political races, because the most passionate are the most willing to work.

You talk about putting together a “highly motivated grassroots army” in Virginia. How would you describe your basic on-the-ground strategy to elect Dave Brat and defeat Eric Cantor?

One: Go to events where like-minded people might be. Two: Introduce Dave and sign them up as volunteers. Three: Get them to come door-knocking or phone-calling, or to host an event. Rinse and repeat. Given our funding disadvantage, we had to maximize the resource we did have—manpower.

During his last years in office, Cantor was disrupted frequently by protesters. What do you think of this tactic?

Protesting, in general terms, has never been of interest to me, but a well-organized and populated protest can be a great way to advance a narrative in the media. The Left has been very effective in this, and just because the Left uses a technique, it should not be off limits.

Why is that?

Academia is slow to change. If you were to look at the top 10 chemical reactions run in the world, most of them have been invented in the last 20 years. None of them are in textbooks.

[exboyfil]

1. Any chemists know what he is talking about

with the top 10 chemical reactions?

The quote does not appear in the linked story.

[kwolf68]

2. Yea I'd like to know too

I had no idea chemist had a ranking of "chemical reactions". Where does 2 hydrogens reacting with 1 oxygen come up on the list and was it just discovered in the last decade?

[cojoel]

4. That quote is from a different article on inthesetimes.com

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18577/its-not-easy-being-a-green-chemist