There once was a time when the last name Cheney was one of the most toxic names in this country. Along with “Bush” or “Petraeus” or Rumsfeld, the Cheney Crime family was almost hated as much by Democrats and media as Donald Trump. DICK Cheney killed a man while hunting, oversaw the torture of Gitmo detainees and was instrumental behind the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet, something changed. Lizard Cheney became a darling of the media and the Democrats because she was so anti-Trump. But finally, someone at CNN, a far left Center for American Progress thug reminds their few readers not to shed a tear of Cheney. Let’s not forget who the Cheney Crime Family really represents.
In another era, Liz Cheney would have been exactly the kind of candidate Republican leaders would champion. She has the voting record, the pedigree, the fortitude, the eloquence and the smarts they might look for in the party’s first female presidential nominee.
But in this, the Era of Trump, traditional political strengths have been supplanted by blind loyalty to the standard bearer. So it is that Wyoming’s sole member of Congress has become a pariah in her own party, stripped of her House leadership position, expelled by her state’s GOP, widely derided and essentially banished for having the audacity to fight for something conservatives like her used to hold dear: America’s democracy.
Because Cheney had the gall to take on Donald Trump and his insurrectionists, the former president has taken on Cheney by promoting her primary challenger. On Tuesday, if the polls are to be believed, Cheney will lose.
But shed no tears for Liz Cheney. Her star has never shone more brightly.
Tuesday night when Cheney goes down in a historic landslide to Harriet Hageman is going to be fun to watch. The communist state run media will try to make Cheney a martyr.