Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?

[Jolly]

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/cheney-campaigns-against-arizona-gop-nominee-governor-kari-lake?utm_source=sf&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twjs

[George K]

So, conservative Liz Cheney supports a candidate who places no limit on abortion? Up to the moment of birth?

This is through-the-looking-glass stuff.

[Jolly]

Hate twists the soul.

[Renauda]

@George-K said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

So, conservative Liz Cheney supports a candidate who places no limit on abortion? Up to the moment of birth?

Maybe Liz Cheney approaches the question of abortion from a libertarian perspective?

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-libertarian-case-for-abortion

[Jolly]

Cheney has never been a libertarian.

Political Death Bed Conversion?

[George K]

@Jolly said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

Cheney has never been a libertarian.

That's right.

[Horace]

It’s impossible to know if she seriously believes that electing that Republican puts our nation’s democracy at risk. But the fact is, she is riding that belief, fictitious or earnest, to greater national prominence. Obviously there is an end game here and that end game involves more power for Liz. Not to state the obvious.

[Renauda]

@George-K said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

@Jolly said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

Cheney has never been a libertarian.

That's right.

True enough. But as Rand Paul and other self professed libertarians maintain, they have more in common with conservatives than with liberals. All I am suggesting that on the issue of abortion, Cheney is taking on a more or less libertarian perspective. She may also be, as Horace points, wholly opportunistic.

It is no secret that when expedient, politicians of all ideological persuasions do not refrain from acting opportunistically if they sense an end result of personal or partisan gain.

Why should the supposed neo-conservative Cheney, be any different?

[George K]

@Renauda said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

It is no secret that when expedient, politicians of all ideological persuasions do not refrain from acting opportunistically if they sense annend result of personal or partisan gain

Exactly - look at the brouhaha over Obama's position on gay marriage Harris's comment on marijuana Walker's stance on abortion .

[Renauda]

@George-K

Just a variation on the time honoured catchphrase; follow the money.

[Mik]

I suspect she will be pretty consistent when it comes to opposing those a bit too close to Trump for her liking. She sees problems ahead for the GOP and I'm not sure she's wrong about that.

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

So, conservative Liz Cheney supports a candidate who places no limit on abortion? Up to the moment of birth?

The GOP continues to pour money to support a candidate who has paid for abortion.

[Horace]

@Mik said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

I suspect she will be pretty consistent when it comes to opposing those a bit too close to Trump for her liking. She sees problems ahead for the GOP and I'm not sure she's wrong about that.

If she can surgically excise the idiotic parts of Trump support from the party and keep the rest, good. I’m not entirely sure she is attached to reality with her moral panic about existential threats to our democracy, represented by candidates who, once elected, will never leave office no matter what.

[Jolly]

@Axtremus said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

@George-K said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

So, conservative Liz Cheney supports a candidate who places no limit on abortion? Up to the moment of birth?

The GOP continues to pour money to support a candidate who has paid for abortion.

Who is now a right-to-life candidate.

I thought you supported abortion? Even after birth?

[Axtremus]

@Jolly said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

@Axtremus said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

@George-K said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

So, conservative Liz Cheney supports a candidate who places no limit on abortion? Up to the moment of birth?

The GOP continues to pour money to support a candidate who has paid for abortion.

Who is now a right-to-life candidate.

You’re the one who liked to say “don’t listen to what they say, see what they do.”

[Jolly]

Deflection.

Are you or are you not pro-death?

[Axtremus]

@Jolly Hey, you’re the one who seems to support the guy who paid for death and the party who funds the campaign of the guy who paid for death. Do you believe in their words or their actions?

[Jolly]

Answer the question.

Are you or are you not an abortion supporter?

[Copper]

@Jolly said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

Are you or are you not pro-death?

Is there really any question?

[Jolly]

@Copper said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

@Jolly said in Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?:

Are you or are you not pro-death?

Is there really any question?

I dunno. The coward won't answer.