I'm still not a Cheney fan, and likely never will be, but Liz Cheney has more guts than all the other GOP Congressfolk put together. (Excepting Adam Kinzinger.)
“I like Republican presidents who win re-election,” Cheney tweeted on Sunday, with a picture of George W Bush.
The Guardian
In case you weren't around then...Trump once said of POW and GOP "war hero" John McCain, "I like people who weren't captured."
Liz Cheney’s tweet was a response to an image released by Trump on Thursday. Under the heading “ICYMI: Must-See Photo”, a Trump-affiliated political action committee sent out a Photoshopped image which spliced Liz Cheney and George W Bush.
By "spliced", they mean mashed up. Morphed.
Trump could not tweet it himself, as he remains barred from the platform for inciting the deadly assault on the US Capitol on 6 January.
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The spliced Bush-Cheney image was accompanied with a link for donations. It was also displayed at a rally in Georgia on Saturday.
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In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes later on Sunday, Liz Cheney previewed her re-election campaign in 2022, as forces aligned with Trump try to unseat her.
“I think it’s going to be the most important House race in the country in 2022,” she said. “And it will be one where people do have the opportunity to say, We want to stand for the constitution,’” Cheney said.
“A vote against me in this race, a vote for whomever Donald Trump has endorsed, is a vote for somebody who’s willing to perpetuate the big lie, somebody who’s willing to put allegiance to Trump above allegiance to the constitution, absolutely.”
In a surprise admission, Cheney also said she had been wrong about gay marriage, which she opposed ahead of a Senate race in 2013.
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While still opposed to gun control, abortion and the Affordable Care Act, and repeating to CBS her opinion that waterboarding is not torture, Cheney finds herself allied with Democrats over the Capitol riot.
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Asked about her continued membership of a party in which 78% do not think Biden won the election, and in which vaccination misinformation and conspiracy theories are rife, she said that was why she was speaking up.
“When you look at the spread of these mistruths and the spread of the disinformation, you know, silence enables it. Silence enables the liar. And silence helps it to spread.
“So the first thing you have to do is say, ‘No. I’m not going to accept that we’re gonna live in a post-truth world.’ It’s a toxin in our political bloodstream … and it’s a really serious and dangerous moment.”
She's right about that.
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