Ah, liberal media — their delusion is something else sometimes and chief among them are the Democratic apologists over at CNN.
CNN had a piece on Monday telling us how all the “influential” Republicans are rushing to support Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-WY) in her race in November. That there are so “many” that a fundraiser for Monday had to cap its guest list at 75. It would have been about 75 people in line for the toilet at Trump rallies, many of whom are Cheney relatives.
So who are some of those “influential” Republicans who are going to somehow revitalize Cheney in Wyoming? People from the “orbits” of Sen. Mitt Romney and the Bushes. Romney is the event’s “special guest.”
Tonight, some of the most powerful orbits within the Republican establishment will gather to support @Liz_Cheney. Bush World and Senator Romney are longtime friends. https://t.co/4mBqdi6tIe
— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 14, 2022
You can’t pretend serious when you refer to these individuals as influential members of the party. These people haven’t had any real influence since 2012. Jeb, how did this influence work? What was 2016 like? It is true that many people think influence is about money. And there is certainly money who would like to see the status quo maintained by the elites voting for Cheney. However, you must still get Wyoming’s support and vote. If you think that folks in Wyoming give a good gosh darn what Romney thinks at this point, you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on.
That’s CNN. This is why you can’t take seriously anything they say when they try to sell stuff like this.
CNN also has her up as a possible 2020 Republican candidate to face President Donald Trump. It is something she has been trying for all along with all of her rhetoric. “Republican donors line up behind Liz Cheney as she takes on Trump” blares their headline. What do the Democrats think her base would look like in 2024, and who are they thinking of? She’s touted by the Democrats now only because she serves their purposes to hype the Jan. 6 committee and attack other Republicans, especially Trump, with it. But Democrats wouldn’t vote for her in a general election and Republicans wouldn’t vote for her in a primary. Plus, she would need to win her race in Wyoming to even have any viability at all and that’s the reason some of these “influential” elites are helping her now.
While they’re pouring in the money to help her in her fight in Wyoming with the Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman, they think like Democrats, just the way that Hillary Clinton thought about Wisconsin. Cheney hasn’t been doing anything to appeal to the Republican voters in the state. She hasn’t shown up at any state Republican Party function in more than two years. She’s also skipped out on town halls and forums. How can she even be considered a Republican at this point when she’s completely blown them off?
Indeed, while she’s pretending to be conservative and skipping out on Republican events, she’s reaching out to Democrats to cross the line and vote for her on August 16, according to Newsmax. All 12? She doesn’t know how many Democrats she believes there are in Wyoming. She knows that she’s in trouble. But it’s also an indication of the fact that she’s truly a Republican in name only. She hasn’t even bothered to justify her position to the Republicans in her state.
Mary Martin, the GOP chair of Wyoming’s Teton County who previously voted against censuring Cheney, now criticizes her, saying she hasn’t come to the state to defend her decision to impeach former President Donald Trump despite being asked.
“She was absolutely invited to come and present what her facts were, to defend why you are doing this and instead she opted to call the Republicans radicals, which has made people upset within the party,” Martin said, according to Politico.
Cheney has “been MIA since Jan. 6. What we believe all is that Cheney is using Wyoming as a steppingstone to run for president in 2024, and needs to defeat Trump. And to raise money, she’s using the anti-Trump commentary,” Martin went on to claim.
Strangely enough, most people don’t like being used as a stepping stone.
She hasn’t just been attacking Trump, but Republicans in general. So how’s that working for her? She’s managed not only to kill her possibilities in the state, losing a straw poll where she was just crushed by Hageman, but she’s even managed to do in her father’s popularity in the state.
Yikes!!!
Wyoming’s Liz Cheney has made Dick Cheney look bad. https://t.co/2e59OuHIWR
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 14, 2022
Cheney plans to attend next week’s bipartisan event. But she may find that isn’t so welcoming.
What Cheney doesn’t know — until now — is that a band of Trump-loving Republicans will be on hand to greet her. The 350 tickets were $10 per ticket and they snapped up nearly a quarter.
“I was here when the … Democrats dragged her father’s effigy down a village road behind a truck at one of their rallies, and those are the people who are supporting her now, that she’s embraced,” an angry Rebecca Cloetta, 66, said over breakfast at a greasy spoon called the Virginian.
“Can you believe it? You have to pay for your ticket. It’s a slap in the face,” said Rebecca Bextel, 41, another Trump-backing Republican planning to attend the voting event. “We have one person representing us” — Wyoming has a single House member — “and she shows up in town and it costs $10 to see her. It’s embarrassing.
For anyone who was foolish enough to believe that it was some larger principle, however, this tells us what her priorities were.
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