As Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) begins to map out her post-congressional life, she is getting numerous love from her pals within the liberal media, just like the New York Occasions. Cheney went down to an enormous defeat on Tuesday night time within the Wyoming major, shedding to Harriet Hageman by a whopping 37 factors.
However you’d be mistaken to suppose she actually misplaced. She actually gained, you see.
On Wednesday, the New York Times ran an op-ed titled, “Within the Methods That Depend, Liz Cheney Gained.” It sounds so much like when Democrats lose elections, and the media clarify to the uneducated rubes why they really gained.
I count on that the Wyoming Home race tonight goes to be a really early name. Additionally, it looks like Liz Cheney’s political base for a presidential run is op-ed columnists. I say that as somebody who hopes she one way or the other wins tonight.
— David Darmofal (@david_darmofal) August 16, 2022
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‘She Gained In All The Methods That Depend’
The New York Occasions, the identical individuals who pushed the Russia collusion hoax and a number of different fantasies about Donald Trump, his household, and his presidency for years, at the moment are touting the existence of morality and ethics.
The op-ed states that Cheney “selected the powerful world of reality over Donald Trump’s underworld of lies.” It continues, saying that Cheney’s “cleareyed imaginative and prescient to see Trump for what he’s…makes her a champion within the ways in which rely most. Come January, she is going to not be Consultant Cheney as a result of she represents steadfast precept in an period with a devastating deficit of it.”
Then comes the compulsory implication that common Republicans, these toothless MAGA hat-wearing fools of their stupidity and ethical inferiority, couldn’t presumably acknowledge the “appropriate” individuals to vote for, a.okay.a., Cheney.
“…there may very well be no dispute, at the least not amongst trustworthy and wise patriots, in regards to the correctness of her positions on Trump, on her celebration’s fealty to him and on the peril that he poses to the way forward for American democracy.”
Dreading this time subsequent 12 months when op-ed columnists and darkish cash PACs begin floating Liz Cheney as a possible Democratic presidential candidate
— Jordan Zakarin (@jordanzakarin) August 17, 2022
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In Different Ridiculous Information…
What additionally could be equally amusing is that following her landslide defeat on Tuesday night, Cheney has floated the thought of a 2024 presidential run.
Proving that the Cheney fanfiction isn’t restricted to the New York Occasions, The Hill really ran a chunk with this ridiculous declare: “Liz Cheney shakes up 2024 forecast.”
Truth examine: False. Ridiculous. Preposterous.
GOP strategist Keith Naughton summed it up properly for the oldsters at The Hill:
“Her working for president is a joke. She would get virtually nothing in a Republican major. The one factor that she would do if she ran as a Republican is assist throw the nomination to Trump by taking on some protest votes that would go to [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis or [former Vice President Mike] Pence.”
You don’t need to be a seasoned political veteran with 40 years of expertise underneath your belt to know that.
“To avoid wasting his presidency, Biden should reward an American patriot like Liz Cheney by making her a VP choose in 2024”, a take which you could positively see in some op-ed someplace.
— Allen M. Hopson (@AllenHopson2) August 17, 2022
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Finish Of An Period
No matter what Liz Cheney’s plans are subsequent, her defeat has much deeper meaning than the left’s newfound love for her. Fox Information commentator Charlie Kirk known as it a “mass repudiation of the Bush-Cheney-McCain period.”
The sanctimonious New York Times op-ed seems to echo the Bush-Cheney-McCain period concept of shedding with honor by saying:
“The losers on Tuesday night time have been the Republican Occasion, which wants her greater than she wants it, and the USA, which wants rescue from its ruinous indulgence of Trump. Cheney has made that case as forcefully as anybody, holding on to the best prize of all: her dignity.”
Improper once more.
Liz Cheney thinks the Republican Occasion is in dangerous form, somebody hand her a mirror so she will see why. #AmericaFirst #Trump
— Erica 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@EricaRN4USA) August 18, 2022
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