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‘Then Cowgirl Change Your Ways Today…’
It might be too late for Liz Cheney to change her ways. She is trailing her Republican opponent, Harriet Hagerman, by 22 points in the Wyoming Republican primary.
Liz is encouraging Democrats in Wyoming to vote for her in the primary. That may not be enough to help her hold onto her seat in the House. Registered Republicans make up 71% of registered voters in Wyoming compared to 15% registered as Democrats.
From Fox News:
The Wyoming poll found that the majority of voters disagreed with Cheney’s decision to serve on the Jan. 6 Committee (63%), and thought her opposition to Trump hurt her ability to represent Wyoming (61%). And 54% said Cheney’s service on the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks made them less likely to vote for her.
You might want to ride the range in DC with Nancy Pelosi, but at some point, you must come back home to the voters in Wyoming.
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Absolutely not. Mike Pence should be honored by all for his courage and fidelity to the Constitution. History will treat Mike Pence very, very well.
I am a Registered Republican, have run for office as a Republican and believe that Ronald Reagan was the Greatest President of the Twentieth Century. I just don’t support Trump.
Drop boxes are now illegal in Wisconsin. But they weren’t illegal in 2020. The time to contest drop boxes was in the summer of 2020, not now.
I am part of the Reagan wing of the party.
What does this mean? When talking to the waitress, or his client, or when considering what cases to take, or considering news reports, or posting on other web site, he will give credence to the “insurrection” label?
Either it was or it wasn’t. What is he actually saying?
There was no doubt by former Attorney General Barr, or the Acting Attorney General. There is no doubt now either, see the “Lost, Not Stolen” report by 3 former Judges of the Court of Appeals.
Thank you for your kind words.
I have since been convinced that it was an attempted insurrection.
Whatever happened to the person who used to post your (public) donations to Democrats? I forget his handle.
Whether she has explicitly expressed this publicly or not, it’s obvious that Liz Cheney thinks that the Republican Party should spend time, perhaps a generation, in the political wilderness for their J6 sins. I’ve seen similar views from Jonah Goldberg and just after it happened, Rob Long. Perhaps Cheney has a Moses complex and sees herself leading the Republicans in the wilderness until finally she brings them into the Promised Land. Of course Moses wasn’t allowed into the Promised Land, and maybe Cheney doesn’t want to carry that Moses complex quite that far.
I might be sympathetic if the Democratic Party weren’t controlled by so many fruit cakes who are trying use multiple institutions to shutdown free speech if we disagree with them, among other things.
I’m a conservative first, and only a nominal Republican, and if there were an effective conservative alternative I’d be open to it.
Gary Robbins (@garyrobbins), in his usual trollish ways, says that Cheney will be seen as a hero in ten years. I don’t think so. She has taken too many shortcuts in her involvement with the J6 committee. Instead of a true hearing, they are presenting a point of view, leaving out exculpatory evidence towards their view of Trump, and banning cross examination of their witnesses. The way that “the people’s house” has compelled testimony from its citizens is also a problem.
Cheney is looking for a larger platform than the House of Representatives, which is why she is willing to lose her seat from a backwater, by Washington D.C. standards, like Wyoming.
There can be a conflict between party loyalty and loyalty to the country. Cheney hasn’t straddled that divide very well.
Again with this. I realize that you ignore truth when it conflicts with your “truth” but the boxes were illegal when used. They were employed because of a partisan administrative body that authorized them in contravention of existing state law.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court:
“We hold the documents [authorizing the boxes] are invalid because ballot drop boxes are illegal under Wisconsin statutes.”
Wrong.
Law shmaw. As long as it helped get rid of Trump, it’s all good with Gary.
I get it. We’ve had at least two previous interactions on this and he’s still singing the same tune. The failure to challenge in time affects the legality of the ballots, not the legality of the boxes.
Wow. Plessy, move over. We may have a new nominee for the second worst appellate decision since Dred Scott.
I wish that I understood that. Oh wait. No I don’t.
And now I’m convinced. The state’s right (WI in this case) to regulate its elections is the equivalent of slave states and racial segregation.
I’m convinced Gary is a Democrat.
Pathetic.
I am a Registered Republican, and a former candidate for office as a Republican.
The distinction is that I am a Reagan Republican and not a Trump Republican.
Hopefully, in 27 months both you and I will be comfortable calling ourselves DeSantis Republicans, after DeSantis is elected in 2024.
It would be really nice if branches of government would quit cosplaying as each other. I don’t know that there has ever been a congressional trial that we could be proud of.
What does this even mean? An attempted insurrection is an insurrection. An unsuccessful insurrection is an insurrection. Words are not intended to be tissues that you use and throw away.
The judges were looking for conspiracy to commit insurrection, since conspiracies sound more nefarious than attempts. That’s the ticket!
It means that he couldn’t think of a modifier right away but wanted to keep saying ‘insurrection’ anyway.
No, you may “identify” as a Reagan Republican, but Reagan never would have argued against states being able to regulate their elections because it’s the equivalent of “state’s rights” arguments for slavery and segregation. You want the feds to take over elections? You’re a “Reagan Republican” the way Caitlyn Jenner or Lia Thomas are “woman of the year.”
Only a Democrat argues an absolutist position against state’s rights — especially when it comes to elections. Fed takeover of elections is openly part of the Democrat agenda. Democrats are also blinded to the concept of tradeoffs — like the one made in 2020 when Biden was selected over Trump. We exchanged mean tweets for domestic and international disaster. People are suffering and you take zero responsibility for your part in it. Irresponsibility and blame-shifting being another characteristic of Democrats. See Biden, FJ.
Now, WC … we know that Gary is a Reagan Republican because he has been to the Reagan Library, just as we know that I am a Lamborghini Aventador because I’ve been to a garage.
Don’t cross me Percy. I’m not in the mood. /jk
But did the garage have a Lamborghini Aventador?
So then you’re suggesting that Gary is saying that a conspiracy existed that never actually developed into an attempt at an insurrection. In other words, Jan 6th was about an illegal desire for an insurrection. That makes sense. :)
I believe he said that he consummated his first marriage in the Reagan Library. When he honeymooned there. Something like that.
That is too funny.
I have been married twice. With my second wife, we traveled to San Diego to go to the Hotel Del Coronado. We were stopped at a Denny’s in Simi Valley when a lady came in a said in an excited voice that she had seen President Reagan at his library. WHAT! We left quickly to go to the Reagan Presidential Library. We were kept in the lobby when President Reagan came out of an elevator. We all clapped. He turned to us and clasped his hands together above his head.
Did we consumate our marriage in the Reagan Library? Um, no.