So call conservative site, Town Hall, which is run by Faux NeverTRUMPER Katie Pavlich is now defending Liz Cheney and claiming all the statements call for her to be ousted from her House GOP leadership position is nothing but “silliness” or something. Townhall owns RINO website masquerading as conservative sites like Hot Air, Twitchy and Red State. Lizard Cheney is no victim. She’s brought all this crap on herself. Her war criminal father should be very proud.
So I’m quite frankly appalled at the treatment of Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming by her fellow House Republican leaders and many rank and file conservatives simply for having a contrary opinion. I’m sure she and I would not see eye-to-eye on every policy, but such trivial things are no reason to excommunicate someone from party leadership.
Cheney’s only crime of course is her belief that the GOP needs to wash its hands of Donald Trump. Otherwise, she’s a tried and true conservative. And our movement is big enough to accommodate personal opinions.
Her detractors, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, insist that her repeated criticisms of Trump are a distraction from fighting the Biden agenda. That may be, but in devoting this much time to ousting her instead of stopping Sleepy Joe, McCarthy, Steve Scalise, and the rest are making exactly the same mistake.
What it boils down to is that the conservative base has an addiction to Trump, and no wonder: Trump’s presidency saw many victories for the movement that shouldn’t be discounted. But throughout his four years, GOP leaders were visibly afraid to ever cross him, both because of his legendary penchant for grudges and fear of being excoriated by the base. Being a conservative is not about him.