Speaker Boehner resigns: The tragedy of strategy

More relevant to the Speaker’s resignation was the Henrico County, Virginia electorate’s ouster of his former Majority Leader, Eric Cantor (R-Va.]) in June of 2014, when a relatively unknown conservative Republican, and Tea Party favorite named Dave Brat mounted an old-fashioned, door-to-door campaign and wrested his party’s nomination from a man who, at the time, was the second most powerful Republican in Congress.   Visit:  Speaker Boehner resigns: The tragedy of strategy