No, no, make no mistake about it. Eric Cantor was plenty conservative enough. He just wasn't sufficiently radical. Not extreme enough. He had poorly-developed anarchy skills. You might find this hard to believe, but he still trusted in the notion of government.
For a party that was already groping for a direction, this primary loss by a sitting majority leader is, if not devastating, at least further de-stabilizing. And this new development is even more thought-provoking when you consider the recent moves toward the political left in recent public statements made by some conservatives. Finding a direction in this new atmosphere is going to take some ingenuity.