Why saying Liz Cheney isn't a Republican proves the GOP is just a cult of personality
Why saying Liz Cheney isn't a Republican proves the GOP is just a cult of personality
Over the weekend, the Wyoming Republican Party voted to no longer recognize Rep. Liz Cheney as one of their own .
© Provided by CNN"To further her own personal political agenda, Representative Liz Cheney has not only caused massive disruption, distraction and division within the House Republican Conference, but has also willingly, happily, and energetically joined forced with and proudly pledged allegiance to democrat Speaker of the House Pelosi, as a means of serving her own personal interests while ignoring the interests, needs and expectations of Wyoming Republicans," read the resolution dropping Cheney from the GOP , as reported by the Casper Star-Tribune.
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The move has zero practical impact -- Cheney will still run as a Republican in next year's primary election -- but it is a telling indicator of how far the Republican Party has strayed from first principles as it morphs into a cult of personality around former President Donald Trump.
Start here: By every measure you can find, Liz Cheney is not only a Republican, but a pretty conservative one.
According to the conservative Heritage Action group , Cheney's lifetime vote score is 80%. National Journal's vote ratings give her a composite 77% conservative score. Calculations done by 538 show that Cheney voted with Trump 92.9% of the time during his term in office.
Heck, Cheney's main rival for the Republican nomination in 2022, Harriet Hageman, endorsed her 2016 campaign! "I know that Liz Cheney is a proven, courageous, constitutional conservative, someone who has the education, the background and experience to fight effectively for Wyoming on a national stage," Hageman said at the time . "There have been and will continue to be concerted efforts to force true conservatives to sit down and shut up. Those efforts have never worked on me and I know that they will not work on and have no effect on Liz Cheney."
What happened over those five years? Did Cheney change?
Nope! Again, according to Heritage Action , Cheney had a 61% conservative rating in the 115th Congress, which was in session in 2017 and 2018. In the 116th Congress, her score jumped to 82%. And so far in this, the 117th Congress, Cheney's rating is 96%.
So, if anything, Cheney has gotten MORE conservative -- at least in terms of her voting record -- since she came to Congress (and since Hageman praised her as a "proven, courageous, constitutional conservative" back in 2016).
Cheney hasn't changed. What has changed is what it means to be a Republican.
Out are things like adherence to smaller government or hawkishness in foreign policy. Or even so-called "family values." In is worshiping at the altar of Trump.
See, the ONLY thing that's changed about Cheney is that she was one of the most outspoken Republicans in Congress in condemning Trump for his role before, during and after the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. She was one of 10 Republicans in the House who voted to impeach him. She has said repeatedly -- and publicly -- that she does not believe he should have a role in the future of the party.
For those views, she was ousted earlier this year from her role as the third-ranking Republican in the House -- and replaced with New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Trump favorite. (Stefanik's lifetime score with Heritage Action is 48%.) And for those views, she is in the fight of her political life against Hageman, whom Trump endorsed in September . (In that endorsement statement, the former president called Cheney a "warmonger" and a "disloyal Republican.")
Cheney is in all of this political trouble not because she abandoned conservative principles or moved to the left ideologically. She's in this position for one reason: because the modern Republican Party is a cult of personality and she had the audacity to speak out against the cult leader.
Whatever.....the bitch will be primaried out and lose
Because she refuses to march lockstep with the rest of the Trumpster republicans.
You mean like Manchin and Sinema refuse to march lockstep with the rest of the far left wack job Democrats? Don't see Republicans hounding Liz into bath rooms, onto boats, in airports, and anywhere else they can find her. They are just resolute that she will pay in the primaries for being Pelosi's bitch. She stopped being a Republican the second she allowed herself to be nominated to the the commission by Pelosi. She is not representing the Republicans; but Nancy Pelosi. They never certified her position. Democrats can scream she is a Republican forever; it won't make it true.
Reagan said it best.
So your goose stepping image is best suited for the Democrats.
The state Republican Party declared that she is not a Republican anymore. You dont consider that "hounding"?
How have the democrats punished them for having a difference of opinion? Democrats may not like it at times, but they don't punish other democrats for disagreeing like republicans do.
GOP Ousts Cheney From Leadership Over Her Criticism Of Trump
No, that is called decertification; which means she isn't a Republican- got it? Republicans are allowed to say who are in their ranks; and she isn't one any longer.
Which means the entire damn she is a Republican argument is pure BS.
Calling her a bitch is laughable considering the whinny little bitch he idolizes.
Also ironic since if we call any other right wing a bitch we get crucified
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Again, she is not a Republican. She was bounced for being appointed to the Jan 6th commission by Pelosi; period. The Democrats would do the exact same thing to any of their members that allowed themselves to be appointed by any Republican leader to any commission. The entire article is BS.
Seems that Manchin is considering leaving the Democrat Party because they have treated him so well./S
There are calls for Sinema to leave the Democrat Party.
Have to love the ever tolerant left.
Are you implying that one of my friends is ugly? Let's not go there.
Nope. Just has no room to talk that's all.
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Sounds like I'm being doxed here. How would anyone know what I look like?
NO one was talking to you yet you piped in without a clue.
very good question
I have him on ignore but he still insists on replying to me. Was it his usual snarky, no value comment?
Well that is all he's got so that would be a safe assumption.
They should both get the fuck out then - they're DINOs.
Bullshit.
Awww, poor baby....
Yawn ..... pretty close to beer thirty
Wasn't Sinema attacked a bathroom because she wouldn't stay in line with the party?
nah, some thumpers were trying to snap a picture of her sporting a dick in the women's restroom.
No
The left would have loved to see those pictures.
why, when there's melania. she sports the biggest dick on the planet.
It must suck to have that man live rent free in your head.
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"Yawn ..... pretty close to beer thirty"
Whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
It's meant to dismiss you.
I was oblivious to that ignorance and probably in bed at that time.
That's pretty much the crux of the Republican Party now and many Democrats are willing to follow them down that same rabbit hole of "party purity".
The right proves once again that, if you are not in lock step with Trump, and your lips are not firmly affixed to his a$$, then you are not worthy to be a Republican.
If the Republican Party was made up of politicians who had Liz Cheney's principles Americans would be a lot better off than they are today.
You mean we need more carpetbagging politicians of no substance that had their way into politics paved my their daddy?
I don't think so .....
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
Bravo, Sparty On. Damn, it's great to see that there are right-wingers who have and use classic knowledge.
I find that one of the biggest mistakes some people make is underestimating folks who are not of like mind.
A foolish mindset to have and yet, many folks today still fall into that trap.
Instead we have unprincipled politicians and voters who are willing to forgo all of their ethics and morals to keep people in power who do not and never did have their interests at heart. What has the republican party done of their constituents other than "own" a few "libs."
You will see at the midterms
As I said to you previously, "Not so fast, Louie" (Rick Blaine / Humphrey Bogart to Captain Louis Renault / Claud Rains in Casablanca)
A little clarification here , it is the STATE Gop that has decided to not recognize her as a republican , not the national counterpart.
that simply means they wont be giving her any money for a campaign . and it is the state gop that will determine for themselves whom they will contribute to under the party banner within the state .
not being a member of the party , i really dont care what they say or think .