weatheriscool wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:26 pm
She only got 29% in the primary. It is extremely unlikely that she has much of a chance to win the presidential primary....
Oh, I totally agree that Liz Cheney has little to no chance of actually winning the Republican party nomination. She is that party's last best hope, but an overwhelming majority of Republicans just don't see it that way. At least not in public. Still, it may be a worthy fight. Robert Reich had an interesting comment on Liz Cheney.
Liz Cheney and the Future of the Republican Party
by Robert Reich
August 17, 2022
Extract (after an introduction which largely duplicates what has already been covered in this thread):
I expect that Cheney will run for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. If Trump is still alive and coherent, and most Republican voters are still deluded by him, she will lose. I hope she then runs as a third-party candidate for a new Republican Party that represents the best values of the old GOP — one that I recall from when Dwight Eisenhower was president.
My father was a Republican. So was my grandfather. The first administration I joined in Washington was Gerald Ford’s. One of my dearest friends is Alan Simpson, former senator from Wyoming.
But since Ronald Reagan became president, I’ve watched the Republican Party turn from a governing institution into a crazed cult. It is not just bent on returning America to what it was before the New Deal. It is now intent on turning America into an authoritarian nation. It represents a clear and present danger to the future of the United States and the world.
I have disagreed with Liz Cheney on almost all the substantive issues she has voted on while in Congress. But on the transcendent issue of democracy — the foundation on which all other issues depends — I salute her leadership, her dedication, and her commitment. And I grieve for the Republican Party that has lost her and lost what’s left of its moral authority.
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For those of you who may be interested, here’s what Cheney had to say (in her concession speech) last night in full...(see linked article acces to which is provided below):
Read more here:
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/liz- ... re-of-the Don't mourn, organize.
-Joe Hill
