Cheney sees cratering support in House GOP as McCarthy says she isn’t ‘carrying out the message’

[brucejoel99]

LMAO fight, fight, fight!!

https://twitter.com/club4growth/status/1390066187002843138

[7,052,770]

LMAO fight, fight, fight!!

https://twitter.com/club4growth/status/1390066187002843138

As if the Republican base cares if a politician is "conservative," especially in the eyes of an organization like the Club for Growth. All that matters is undying loyalty to Trump and the Big Lie, and Stefanik is 100% committed to that.

[Horus]

So much drama, gotta love it.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I'm genuinely curious to see what Cheney's next move will be after she's booted from the leadership.  She's clearly got some principles from which she won't back down, and she doesn't seem the type to take things without fighting back.  Could she end up leaving the party to become an independent?  If so, does she try to burn the party down on her way out?

[It’s so Joever]

Guys, I have a confession.
Back in 2012, I made a wish to a Monkey’s Paw I bought from a yard sale that Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, The Bushes, John McCain, and the Cheneys would be abandoned and betrayed by the GOP.
I made a big mistake, I’m sorry, this isn’t what I thought would happen.

[7,052,770]

I'm genuinely curious to see what Cheney's next move will be after she's booted from the leadership.  She's clearly got some principles from which she won't back down, and she doesn't seem the type to take things without fighting back.  Could she end up leaving the party to become an independent?  If so, does she try to burn the party down on her way out?

Imagine a world where Cheney is reelected in 2022, a dystopic world where the gerrymandering ban doesn't pass, allowing the Rs to retake Congress, but CA/NY countergerrymander Stefanik and McCarthy out of their seats. Who takes over the party then? Do they just make Trump the speaker?

[Pericles]

I'm genuinely curious to see what Cheney's next move will be after she's booted from the leadership.  She's clearly got some principles from which she won't back down, and she doesn't seem the type to take things without fighting back.  Could she end up leaving the party to become an independent?  If so, does she try to burn the party down on her way out?

Imagine a world where Cheney is reelected in 2022, a dystopic world where the gerrymandering ban doesn't pass, allowing the Rs to retake Congress, but CA/NY countergerrymander Stefanik and McCarthy out of their seats. Who takes over the party then? Do they just make Trump the speaker?

Lmao he'd hate that job so much.

[Hindsight was 2020]

Guys, I have a confession.
Back in 2012, I made a wish to a Monkey’s Paw I bought from a yard sale that Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, The Bushes, John McCain, and the Cheneys would be abandoned and betrayed by the GOP.
I made a big mistake, I’m sorry, this isn’t what I thought would happen.

You.......bastard

[The Dowager Mod]

She's still a horrible person.

[7,052,770]

I'm genuinely curious to see what Cheney's next move will be after she's booted from the leadership.  She's clearly got some principles from which she won't back down, and she doesn't seem the type to take things without fighting back.  Could she end up leaving the party to become an independent?  If so, does she try to burn the party down on her way out?

Imagine a world where Cheney is reelected in 2022, a dystopic world where the gerrymandering ban doesn't pass, allowing the Rs to retake Congress, but CA/NY countergerrymander Stefanik and McCarthy out of their seats. Who takes over the party then? Do they just make Trump the speaker?

Lmao he'd hate that job so much.

He'd be terrible at it for sure. I wonder if he'd stand up and interrupt Biden during the State of the Union.

[Bomster]

This is like when Trump took down Comey, Bolton, and a bunch of Bush neocons. I just hit the shrug cause all these people are awful. GOP is getting what it deserves.

But it's not. The GOP is never punished for their actions. Donald Trump was, but not the GOP, who made significant gains in the House and were on track to hold the Senate had Trump shut up. The GOP is all but certain to retake the House in 2022 and maybe the Senate too.

The unfortunate reality is people either don't care about any of this political stuff, or if you do it's all tribal.

[Hermit For Peace]

I’m surprised how quickly this is taking place, knives have been sharpened for a while. I think this is the beginning of the end of her political career, she’s gonna lose the primary. Once you’re the darling of the online left an NYT it’s a wrap

She'll find something better suited to her strong talents. She will not be happy in a party full of cowards.

[Mr. Illini]

If anyone had any doubt that Trump will continue to wield power over the GOP and easily walk to the nom in 2024 if he wants it (he does), just look at Kevin McCarthy cuck himself as he’s forced to do a complete 180 on his earlier promise that the impeachment vote wouldn’t cost anyone their job.

[Ferguson97]

Cheney sucks but you’ve gotta be pretty narrow-minded to think this is a good development. It means Trump STILL holds absolute power over the GOP.

[Former President tack50]

Rep. Liz Cheney (D-WY); welcome to the #resistance

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Fun fact: this will have no political consequences for the GOP whatsoever!

[Sir Mohamed]

Fun fact: this will have no political consequences for the GOP whatsoever!

Agreed. And that's exactly problem. They should have been wiped out in 2020, particulary downballot. Not that this would have changed their attitude, but given Dems more power to pass Biden's agenda. The GOP has no serious agenda and therefore doesn't deserve to have a say in legislation.

[Nightcore Nationalist]

I think this is a fair point and it really illustrates the awkward position that the Republican Party is in. They want and need unity, but they're taking a huge risk by launching punitive measures against people like Cheney, who can easily frame this as an issue that's related to her rejection of Trump. Getting her out of leadership now is smarter than removing her in the immediate aftermath of the insurrection, but I still think that Republicans are underestimating how dangerous it is for them to keep re-litigating their 2020 defeat rather than present their platform as a coherent alternative to the current administration. It sends the message that the GOP is wasting energy on what, to the vast majority of Americans, is just irrelevant inter-party drama and it also sends the message that being a Trump devotee is a prerequisite for being a Republican. Obviously in the grand scheme of things this Liz Cheney conflict isn't taking up much time, but public perception is everything.

I should point out how pitifully small the amount of popular support Liz Cheney has- basically none.  She has the backing of a few irrelevant people who aren't even really republicans (Bill Kristol and the Lincoln project) and elitists who dislike most rank and file GOP voters and the direction they want the GOP to go (see: most of National Review).  Republicans (correctly) perceive Cheney as someone who solely cares about virtue signaling and insufficiently supporting the party's interests, even relative to someone like Mitt Romney or Susan Collins.

The Bush GOP is DEAD.  Bury it.  A Frenchified GOP that treats big business better than their own voters, that supports the forever war unconditionally, and that is out of step with it's base on social issues and immigration is an evolutionary dead end that cannot win and is not a viable coalition.  The public support is clear on this.  The biggest obstacles to party unity are people like Liz Cheney, David French and the CATO institute.

[GP270watch]

Guys, I have a confession.
Back in 2012, I made a wish to a Monkey’s Paw I bought from a yard sale that Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, The Bushes, John McCain, and the Cheneys would be abandoned and betrayed by the GOP.
I made a big mistake, I’m sorry, this isn’t what I thought would happen.

 You can always count on the GOP to lower the bar.

 

[Arizona Iced Tea]

Why does an anti-Trump neocon still have leadership? Kick her out of that position and let her be defeated in the primary. I don't have an issue with people who voted for impeachment per se ( I still like Susan Collins), but now that all Cheney wants to focus on now is criticizing Trump, Wyoming can do better.

[Roll Roons]

People are attacking Cheney because she "can't quit Trump".

Did she call for there to literally be a golden statue of him at CPAC?
Did she make the NRCC threaten to tell Trump that someone was a "defector" if they unsubscribed from monthly donations?
Did she force the Arizona GOP to keep conducting BS "audits" about voter fraud?

[Epaminondas]

Why did she not run for Senate in 2020, thus securing her position until after the Trump cancer is wiped out?

[GeneralMacArthur]

I'm genuinely curious to see what Cheney's next move will be after she's booted from the leadership.  She's clearly got some principles from which she won't back down, and she doesn't seem the type to take things without fighting back.  Could she end up leaving the party to become an independent?  If so, does she try to burn the party down on her way out?

Imagine a world where Cheney is reelected in 2022, a dystopic world where the gerrymandering ban doesn't pass, allowing the Rs to retake Congress, but CA/NY countergerrymander Stefanik and McCarthy out of their seats. Who takes over the party then? Do they just make Trump the speaker?

Honestly if you spent some money I bet you could astroturf a "Trump for Speaker" campaign and pressure a majority of Republican Congressmen to agree to elect Trump as Speaker if they take the majority.

[Calthrina950]

Why did she not run for Senate in 2020, thus securing her position until after the Trump cancer is wiped out?

She probably would have lost the primary to Cynthia Lummis, her predecessor in the House, who now holds that Senate seat.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Why did she not run for Senate in 2020, thus securing her position until after the Trump cancer is wiped out?

She probably would have lost the primary to Cynthia Lummis, her predecessor in the House, who now holds that Senate seat.

Also, I think she had her eye on becoming Speaker.