Liz Cheney is forcing us to take sides
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I'm not getting too excited about taking sides with Cheney. The article and the comments under it, are written by people who wouldn't vote Republican if the GOP ran Jesus for elected office.
Fact is, the Lizard got thumped because she didn't do her job. GOP leadership allowed her impeachment vote and her moment of courage, without any repercussions. She kept her committee asignments, which were geared to help her constituents. I think if she would have done her job, she would have been reelected.
But she decided she would go on a crusade. Why? Maybe she was tired of having to live part of the year in Wyoming. Maybe she has bigger, national political aspirations. For whatever reason, she became the darling of the January 6 committee, a committee that was rigged against her fellow Republicans. A committee which GOP leadership had decided not to participate in.
By doing so, she ignored the will of her constituents. Worse, she ignored the needs if her constituents. At a time when water is becoming a huge issue in the West, when mineral leases on government lands affect so many of the people of Wyoming, when fertilizer, seed and hay shortages are massively impacting agriculture and in a state where COVID had hurt the tourist business, the Lizard decides the most important thing for her is a one-day riot and a Trump vendetta.
So, she got kicked out on her keister.
The Republican Party has changed. It's not the party of the Bush family or of the Mitt Romneys of the nation. It has become more blue collar, yet is attracting more hispanics and slowly, but surely, more middle-class blacks. That is one of the legacies of Trumpism and it's a good legacy.
I'm not sure the modified neoconservatism of Cheney is going to take her as far as her ambition would like. At the end of the day, the Dems are not going to vote for her and a large portion of much of the Republican electorate ain't happy with her.
Now, if she wants her on show on MSDNC, I'm sure it will be forthcoming.
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There are worse things than to be remembered as a principled maverick, bucking one's own tribe in favor of virtue. Regardless of her plans, that reputation will open doors for her, for the rest of her life. She is way more of a hero now than she was when she began her crusade. Before her crusade, she was just another GOP lawmaker, to be disregarded with the rest. Now she is a brand.
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Yes, she is a brand. But how far will that get you. It couldn't get McCain elected to anything past Senator in his state, and to give the devil his due, McCain did take care of issues at home.
McCain was the darling of the media world...You couldn't turn on a Sunday political show or CNN, and not see McCain. Then, he ran for President and for the most part, they turned on him.
