It continues to amaze to me that there are (once) intelligent and objective people who regard Liz Cheney as anything but a raging, emotion-driven, warped political hack at this point. The Axis and the Trump-Deranged like her for the obvious reasons, but isn’t there some point where even a mouth-foaming Trump-Hater is too silly to take seriously? Cheney crashed through that DETOUR sign when she signed onto Nancy Pelosi’s “Get Trump!” star chamber “investigating” the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol.
Cheney just announced that she will be voting for Kamala Harris because “of the danger that Donald Trump poses.” Of course, nothing Trump has done or said suggests that he will raise taxes, take away guns and health insurance, or explode the size and power of the Federal government. Nor has he, like Harris and her running mate, expressed a fondness for censorship. Nor did his first term suggest that he was dangerous, as Cheney’s tweet just three months from the 2020 election indicates. Harris, meanwhile, has done and said nothing that might indicate that Cheney’s assessment of her in 2020 should be revised.
That’s not to say that Cheney’s characterization of Harris was necessarily fair and accurate, only that if she thought it was fair then, it would be just as fair now. Changing one’s mind based on new information is always a valid defense against the accusation of hypocrisy, but all that has changed for Cheney is that her only career path now is as an anti-Trump ex-Republican who can make the Angry Left’s spirits soar like a hawk. She can get speaking gigs at “I Hate Trump” rallies.
Unfortunately, like alcoholism, Trump Derangement is a progressive disease.
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Cheney has always been an opportunistic RINO. I tried to argue that back when she first sought to coopt Wyoming as her platform to greatness, and it took her backstabbing treachery at the J6 commission to finally open Wyomingites’ eyes. Yes, she voted 98% conservative, but that would only last as long it was politically expedient for her.
And, of course, Kamala Harris has given little indication that her positions on those subjects has changed so there really isn’t any new information that Liz could use to argue that she has reason, as a Republican, to believe that Harris would be better for the country than Trump.
The propaganda campaign that has gone on for the last 4 years that the Trump administration was chaotic ignores the fact that it was largely the Democrats and their allies in the news media (as well as the entertainment industry, academia and Big Tech) that made it chaotic. Some of those allies were so-called Republicans like Cheney who abandoned nearly every conservative position in order to “Get Trump”(Nixon’s statement about hating others and destroying yourself in the process is, in my opinion, apt here). If we were not inundated with constant headline news about stupid things, such as the way Trump drank a bottle of water (compare to the ridiculous Vance donut store stop they are pushing as news), maybe those four years would have been peaceful.
Having Liz Cheney on your team is like losing your two best players.
And Cheney is toxic waste at this point. The GOP wants nothing to do with her, and the Democratic Party knows her voting record and, regardless of what she may claim, they have zero trust in her except as an anti-Trump shrieker. If some “establishment GOP” candidate comes along in the future, Cheney will be right back in the GOP camp, voting in lock-step with the deep state and the CFR where her dad got started. All that might be enough to get you a mention at a Harris-Walz campaign stop (you know, “Look who endorsed me!! cackle cackle”), but probably not a job in a Harris-Walz administration other than emptying trash cans at the Smithsonian.
This is correct. Cheney and the other Never Trump Republicans are just useful idiots to the Democrats.
One of the things I remember from Obama’s first campaign in 2008 was the intentional ambiguity of his platform. It was non-specific enough that, if you supported him, you could convince yourself that his goals were aligned with his objectives. And, as an added bonus, if you dared to question his experience, competence, policies, etc., you were immediately tarred as a racist.
Fortunately, now it’s 2024 and we’re no longer falling for those cynical Democrat reindeer games.
During the George W. Bush era, ‘neocon’ was synonymous with ‘worse than Hitler’ with the Democrat crowd and Dick Cheney was the Devil incarnate. Now, those exact same people swoon over Elizabeth Cheney and the Cheney neocon policies because the party has told them it is ‘necessary for Democracy’. They then claim to be intelligent, independent thinkers. Most of the Republican Party has decided those policies are not good for the country, and the Democrats have embraced them.
I don’t think this is a party switch. I think the neocon agenda and the neoliberal agenda were always one in the same, supported by the same influencers. I think that Donald Trump has awakened the vast majority of conservatives to what the neocon agenda actually was and why it is a problem for America while bringing in more independent voters who never cared for that in the first place. I don’t think the Republican leadership or the RNC has really changed, but I think the people who vote Republican have. The Democrats, as usual, are believing and doing what they are told.
This is indeed the Obama strategy and it was widely noted at the time. I remember in one debate or town meeting where he was asked which pressing matter he would treat as the #1 priority, the debt and deficit, immigration, education, health care costs, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. His answer, which I noted the time marked him as a phony: “All of them.” But Obama really was a blank slate, he was (and is) a talented public speaker, off-script he never sounded like a babbling idiot, and didn’t have anything close to Harrris’s damning record—and he was running against a current administration that had crashed and burned, not as part of that administration. Plus McCain was one of the worst and most awkward GOP candidates ever, almost as bad as Bob Dole, AND the idea of electing a black President seemed like it could be uniting—I know I thought so at the time.
Boy, was THAT a mirage…