Hobgoblins on the march

If the week didn’t already have enough odd and confusing Republican behavior, we can also add downright batty (and that’s being kind).

A meeting a few days ago of those nefarious establishment types that featured former Rep. Eric Cantor is now being spun into a possible preview of a Cantor gubernatorial run in 2017.

It’s pretty funny stuff. But considering the source, PJ Media writer David Steinberg, we should expect nothing less.

Let’s be clear: Eric Cantor has no political future in Virginia, and certainly not statewide in 2017 or beyond. The line for 2017 forms behind Mark Obenshain…and Pete Snyder, and despite his protestations to the contrary, Ed Gillespie. There may be others. Eric’s place in that pecking order? Somewhere down the block and around the corner. The line to challenge Tim Kaine in 2018 is already getting long, too (good morning, Mr. Cuccinelli).

That some insist he’s still a threat only reaffirms a line from H.L. Mencken:

“…the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

Perhaps sensing that a Cantor hobgoblin isn’t sufficient to keep the easily excitable sufficiently on edge, we are treated to the specter of a possible Bill Bolling challenge to Cantor’s replacement, Rep. David Brat.

The one-time “Hanover Hun” may indeed have dreams of giving Mr. Brat a run for his money in 2016. Such a bid would give a new definition to the word “quixotic,” though it would also be enormously entertaining to watch. The only thing we’re missing is the howling over Rep. Barbara Comstock’s appearance at the meeting. Yes, Mrs. Comstock is a hobgoblin now, too.

But such is to be expected when various alliances, fellowships, and directories arise, all aimed at casting one another out for heresy. Republicans are fortunate in some ways that Virginia Democrats also have their factional intrigues and blood lettings. While not usually as public — a series of statewide victories can subdue a great deal of discontent — they exist (just ask Lamont Bagby. Or Rosalyn Dance, or Phil Puckett, or Frank Hall or maybe you can channel the late Benjamin Lambert. Heck, go ask Doug Wilder, Chuck Robb and Jerry Baliles, though good luck getting an answer).

Most Virginians have no time for such nonsense.

Though some might, if they realized that all this has more in common with Monty Python than anyone imagined:

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