Will the Left Respect Liz Cheney in the Morning?
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Via: vic-eldred • 3 years ago • 27 commentsBy: David Catron (The American Spectator USA News and Politics)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
While it is hardly unusual for the left and its media mouthpieces to reverse their positions on an issue or a public figure pursuant to the political exigencies of the moment, their sudden portrayal of Liz Cheney as a paragon of virtue after reviling her for years has been remarkably hypocritical even by their cynical standards. Mother Jones, for example, executed a typical about-face last week. Having once advised its readers, "Liz Cheney Wants to Make Torture Great Again," that august publication now heaps praise on the Wyoming congresswoman for excoriating her Republican colleagues in a Washington Post opinion piece.
As the sole member of the Republican leadership to support the impeachment of then-President Trump for his alleged incitement of the January 6 Capitol riot, Cheney is in bad odor with the party's rank-and-file, has been censured by the Wyoming GOP, and may well lose her leadership position. Much of the ire directed at Cheney involves her acquiescence in the failure of House Democrats to observe due process. As an attorney and two-term congresswoman, she knew this killed any claim to legitimacy the impeachment possessed. Yet her Postcolumn compounds her duplicitous vote by parroting Democratic talking points:
The question before us now is whether we will join Trump's crusade to delegitimize and undo the legal outcome of the 2020 election, with all the consequences that might have.… Trump has never expressed remorse or regret for the attack of Jan. 6 and now suggests that our elections, and our legal and constitutional system, cannot be trusted to do the will of the people.… Republicans need to stand for genuinely conservative principles, and steer away from the dangerous and anti-democratic Trump cult of personality…. History is watching. Our children are watching.
The only Democratic trope she leaves out of the column is the "Big Lie" canard, which she had already used in a tweet two days earlier: "The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system." These aren't the words of a conservative Republican, as Cheney styles herself in the Post. It's difficult to imagine anything she could do that would delight the Democrats more, unless she secretly organized an editorial in a major newspaper to insinuate that Trump might attempt to use the military to overturn the election.
As it happens, just such an opinion piece appeared in the Washington Post on January 3. According to a report in the New Yorker, Cheney herself orchestrated the op-ed with assistance from her father. Titled, "All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory." It purportedly expressed the views of former defense secretaries Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry, and Donald Rumsfeld. These luminaries professed themselves concerned about the peaceful transfer of power:
Each of us swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. We did not swear it to an individual or a party. American elections and the peaceful transfers of power that result are hallmarks of our democracy. With one singular and tragic exception that cost the lives of more Americans than all of our other wars combined, the United States has had an unbroken record of such transitions since 1789, including in times of partisan strife, war, epidemics and economic depression. This year should be no exception.
This exercise in moral posturing was ostensibly produced in response to a ridiculous report by New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman. During a White House meeting, Trump allegedly asked a question about a goofy hypothetical posed by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn about deploying the military to rerun the election. It was clear, even in Haberman's report, that no one in the meeting seriously considered acting on this nonsense. Nonetheless, it produced predictable hysteria in the legacy media and provided Cheney with yet another pretext for betraying her party and her Wyoming constituents.
It isn't clear what she expects to gain from all this. It's hard to believe she's dumb enough to take the accolades she has been receiving from the left and the media seriously. As long as they can use her against the GOP, they will continue to praise her as a profile in courage. While she is willing to repeat conspiracy theories about Donald Trump, they will say she is speaking truth to power. But when she is no longer useful to them, they will return to reviling her. Indeed, that appears to have already begun. The New York Times ran a hit piece by Frank Bruni over the weekend titled, "Is Liz Cheney a Martyr — or Just a Hack in Holy Drag?"
Bruni snarls, "No sooner had I become overwhelmed by the corpulent body of journalism about Liz Cheney as some beacon of moral clarity than I began to feel besieged by dissents about what a wretched opportunist she really is." This is just a taste of what she's in for. At the end of the day, she will have lost the trust of her fellow Republicans, forfeited the votes of her constituents, and the left will unceremoniously kick her into the political gutter.
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Her final demise was when Nancy Pelosi began quoting her.
Good Riddance.
I guess if you are going to burn your bridges make sure you burn all of them; and make sure they go down to the ground.
Next stop for her will be the Lincoln Project no doubt so she can suck off the left tit for as long as it lasts. Until they remember who she is; and more importantly who her father is.
No one has forgotten. You should worry more about Trumpists who have forgotten what either a republican or a conservative is.
We for sure know what the left wingers are.
They are the true enemy of the people
Trust me, when you do meet the enemy it will be yourself.
Disagree.
her "final demise " rests in the hands of the voters of the state of Wyoming .
That's called the final nail in the coffin. Unless she can talk the way her mother once did.
Thats all anyone needs to know about this article.
How can Ms. Cheney betray that which for all intents and purposes no longer exists or if it does, it does so in name only? Y'all have fun with the mocking midgets who are about to replace the giants.
Funny how the left and media hated her just a short time ago. Want to take bets on how long their adulation lasts?
Who cares?
The "conservatives" cannot refute her on the facts so they are awash in inane speculation like this seed.
I'll let you know in two weeks. Don't forget to remind me. BTW, saying someone is correct is not adulating them, but if that is the swamp you wish to swim in be my guest ... I have a rubber ducky to toss you if needed.
What adulation? Even a Republican is bound to do something right every now and then. This "adulation" is equivalent to a broken clock having the correct time twice a day.
I never gave a shit about Liz Cheney or any republican then or now. Much less admired any one of them.
The fact that she did something that most other people would have done, is not due an "adulation", in fact it should show how far out of touch, and party specific the Republican party is. Shows that Republicans favor party over truth.
I have 0, zip, zilch, nada, none, zero respect for any republican
So Cheney is being dumped for saying the same things that McCarthy along with other republicans said right after the insurrection..Of course, old Kevin doesn't have the balls to stand up to Trump seems to be typical of many two faced republicans.
donald took all their balls a long time ago. They are all weak and pathetic, sucking at the trump tit.
Correct. Partisan politics. Politicians must go with the herd or be ostracized. And the other herd will leave them stranded as well.
There is no wonder why our political system is screwed up.
It's the GoPs turn to look like a circular firing squad. Will this full embracement of Trumpism purity tests benefit them in 2022 & 2024?
We can walk and chew gum. . . heavens, we can multi-task. That is, in this articles attempt to paint in black and white - we INSIST there are gray-areas and we explore Liz's gray attitude!
Apparently, we can do so better than the pysche-writers who penned this bull patty for members of the Big Lie Party to digest. Liz Cheney is no friend of democrats and seriously may have to leave her 'home' in the former republican party! She will go home and think over what the "H" happened to her on the way to the 'top'—eventually
That is "Big Lie Party" loss and not liberals' gain.
As far as what liberals should ask of Liz Cheney is that she continue to have a conscience. You know that 'matter' that sees commonsense and 'right is right-wrong is wrong' that no evaporated from Donald Trump's head whenever it was he became a 'cut-throat; and now shares with his 'cut-throat' following.
"The Republican congresswoman is all but certain to lose her leadership role next week. Her crime? Rejecting Trump's big lie." (USA Today)
A Republican with principles unfortunately will not survive in the American morass.
i wouldnt get too worried about it buzz , the #3 spot in the party in the house usually isnt held that long by any one person for long, and since the party is in the minority , they can fill that spot with anyone until they gain a majority .
if she gets removed , thats more time she could if she chose to to put forth towards being re elected , being she is in her 3rd term as a representative she would normally might have one more term she could win if the people of Wyoming vote for her to do so .
as i pointed out elsewhere , wyoming has a habit of allowing a rep 3-4 terms before they change candidates , and usually after the 4th term the candidate steps down willingly rather than get tossed out on their butts by the electorate .
so whether she sticks to her guns as is or decides a 4th term wont matter , or maybe she can eek out a 4th term in a state full of voters that are pissed off for various reasons , to serve where she has no political future with the national party, thats all up to her what she wants to try .
In any event she will end up eventually going back home , in her case Virginia where she grew up and lived , to decide what to do with the rest of her life .
It is exactly what it is .
She called out fuck face and wouldn’t back down, so good for her on that but fuck her for pretty much everything else.
Pretty strong and. . .direct. But, I take the larger sentiment involved.
Yeah, how dare a party member think critically. The R party should have turned against Trump during his two-month con-job after losing the election. That would have shown integrity. Instead they double down on a liar who clearly cares only about himself and will exploit people (and the entire nation) to get what he wants.
I never thought the R party could be so slimy as they currently are. It is extremely disappointing and given their continued support of Trump, I wonder how long it will take for the party (primarily the R electorate) to clear its collective head and return to viability.
Obviously no depth is too low for today's gqp.