Virginia Republican Eric Cantor, the House Minority Whip (whip it good!) fancies himself the present and future of the Republican Party, especially since according to polls (such as ours), his boss John Boehner is the most unpopular politician in the United States of America.
So he's been going around merrily helping to spread the rumor that he, Eric Cantor, was on the short list of vice-presidential nominees for former presidential nominee John McCain.
The amount of truth to this assertion is approximately nil, according to McCain's people (emphasis added):
"The notion that Eric Cantor was somehow a high profile candidate for vice president is a complete and total joke," a source close the top former leadership of the McCain campaign told me. " He was never on the short list. Never vetted. But if you read the press today you would believe that Eric Cantor ever so close to being vice president. This was created by Cantor’s PR people. He’s got a ton of them."
Heck, why stop with vice-president? Psst! Eric Cantor was on the short list for Pope back in 2005! He turned it down! Pass it on!
It's pretty embarrassing when former McCain staffers are laughing at your ineptitude, but that is just what's happening to Cantor:
Cantor’s shameless self promotion is the source of bitter jokes among McCain veterans. "They just laugh about it," says the source, who has long been a close observer of Cantor’s career. "When Cantor’s asked about it, he won’t comment directly about the vetting. He just hints and struts. It’s very revealing. Its’ the old politics: You get ahead by courting the spotlight without doing anything necessarily different or interesting. There’s nothing there."
Perfect description not only of Cantor, but of the entire slate of Republican leaders today...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
