29 September 2021

NEXT LINK in The Cheney Family Dynasty Chain: Liz - The Alternative to Trump and Biden

Looks like there's jockeying not behind-the-scenes to get the GOP - and the rest of America - to take another look at Dick's daughter as a contender for the highest elected office in the land with an eye into the future to first get re-elected to Congress from the State of Wyoming and then higher ambitions with 2024 in mind.
Over the past weekend she 'changed her mind' on opposing same-sex marriage (Switzerland voted to approve it during the same weekend) during a Sunday prime time interview on 60 Minutes with veteran CBS reporter Lesley Stahl.
Twitter howls with laughter after Rep. Liz Cheney claims her father Dick Cheney is ‘troubled’ by direction of GOP
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‘Hero to the liberals’ Liz Cheney ‘corrects’ Lesley Stahl, says waterboarding ‘not torture’ in CBS interview

 
Opinion: "These days one only needs to be against Donald Trump to win liberal hearts, it seems. Just ask Liz Cheney, who can be both a “hero” to the liberals while also favoring waterboarding, according to her recent ‘60 Minutes’ interview.
CBS News’ Lesley Stahl caught up with the Wyoming representative to discuss her status as a Republican maverick earned after picking a public fight with former President Donald Trump. 
Cheney’s move cost her standing in the Republican party and may even cause her to lose her House seat. Trump has endorsed her opponent in next year’s primary election in apparent retaliation – and whether the US establishment likes it or not, Trump’s word has much sway with the Republican base. . .
Focusing on the bombasic figure of the 45th president made plenty of left-leaning people in the US uncritically embrace anyone on the right who would be critical of him, starting with George Bush himself. Conservative operations like the Lincoln Project exploited this situation, reeling in donations in exchange for producing punchy attack ads targeting Trump. Once-loathed Bush-era neocons like Bill Kristol became welcomed as ‘Trump-is-bad’ style commentators on channels like MSNBC and CNN.
. . .The intraparty fight, along with a more personal moment, in which Cheney admitted she was “wrong” to oppose same-sex marriage even as her father Dick Cheney supported it in 2013, attracted the bulk of political attention on Twitter.

What gained less traction among accounts of verified Twitter users was the part when Stahl noted that it was “kinda funny” that many liberals saw Cheney as a “hero to the liberals,” despite her overwhelmingly conservative convictions.

In the quick exchange that followed, the lawmaker confirmed that she remained anti-abortion (or rather “pro-life” as she framed it), pro-guns, against Obamacare, and pro-waterboarding, which she insisted is “not torture,” contrary to Stahl’s description.

Torture of terror suspects, termed “enchanced interrogation techniques”, was one of the hallmarks of the Bush era, with Vice President Cheney being one of the architects. President Barack Obama later admitted that the US “tortured some folks”, but refused to hold anyone accountable for it.

It’s hardly surprising for a lifetime conservative like Cheney to condone brutality in the name of national security. In the interview, she said she liked most of Trump’s policies, could stomach his “bad character” and went against him only after his refusal to concede the election to Joe Biden and the January 6 riot at Capitol Hill.

Cheney’s current elevation to hero status by the US Left is “demented” and can only be explaned by the fixation on Trump, journalist Glenn Greenwald remarked.

 
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"One of the less dignified spats in US politics has rumbled onwards as the Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney responded to a bizarre insult from Donald Trump.

Liz Cheney fires back at Trump and says she was wrong to oppose gay marriage

Congresswoman tweets response to bizarre insult before telling CBS how she plans to fight Trumpists in re-election battle

Representative Liz Cheney was one of 10 House Republicans to vote for Trump’s impeachment over the Capitol attack.

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First published on Sun 26 Sep 2021 15.37 EDT

“I like Republican presidents who win re-election,” Cheney tweeted on Sunday, with a picture of George W Bush.

Bush beat John Kerry for re-election in 2004. Cheney’s father, Dick Cheney, was vice-president to Bush.

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.

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. Cheney voted to impeach Trump over his role.

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. Her objections caused a rift with her sister, Mary, whose spouse, Heather Poe, said Cheney’s position was offensive, posting on Facebook: “I always thought freedom meant freedom for EVERYONE.”

Cheney told CBS: “I was wrong. I was wrong. It’s a very personal issue – and very personal for my family. And my sister and I have had that conversation … Freedom means freedom for everybody.”

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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Also on rt.com Twitter howls with laughter after Rep. Liz Cheney claims her father Dick Cheney is ‘troubled’ by direction of GOP

Twitter howls with laughter after Rep. Liz Cheney claims her father Dick Cheney is ‘troubled’ by direction of GOP

 
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"Liz Cheney, congresswoman and daughter of ex-VP Dick Cheney, has claimed her father is “troubled” by the Republican Party’s direction after four years of Donald Trump. Social media whipped out a tiny violin to serenade the pair.

My dad is deeply troubled about where our party is, deeply troubled about where the country is,” the younger Cheney declared at the Aspen Institute on Wednesday. 

Lest anyone’s stomach remain unturned, she continued that her father, whom many consider to be a driving force and key architect behind the War on Terror and all the atrocities that accompanied it, was also “just a tremendous source of advice and guidance and wisdom for me.

Social media users were not amused at the apparent umbrage taken on behalf of the man they recalled as an unapologetic war criminal, reminding the newly virtuous ex-VP that he’d literally gotten away with murder during the George W. Bush administration . . ."

                    

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