Top House Republicans Line Up Behind Liz Cheney’s Primary Challenger | Talking Points Memo

[sparrowhawk]

@irasdad

The first lie is the hardest, just enough to justify some policy or tax cut or election result. After that, they get easier, one after the other, until they’re the norm. Then the brutality, crimes, and torture follow. Soon, the cruelty – which began as a means to an end – becomes the end, itself.

The Bolsheviks learned that, as did the Nazis, the CCP, the Khmer Rouge, and every other populist movement that marched down that path into the abyss.

Because that way lies madness. It always has. It always will.

If you “otherize” and dehumanize the opposition, it makes it easy to “justify” all kinds of atrocities, since the opposition isn’t “human, like us” and therefore, we don’t have to empathize, or even sympathize with them.

And projection becomes easy too. “We have to kill all of them before they the get the chance to kill all of us. (Which they totally will do if we ever release the jack-boot from their neck.)”

[albesure]

So, 1/6 no one cares about…BUT, if you kneel during the anthem, SACRELIGIOUS!!

They have to know how full of shit they are…right? (rhetorical)

[tsp]

@pshah

I think in their pursuit of raw power, this new brand of Republican has no idea how to write a bill, pass a bill, or to govern.

Yes they do. Every bill they write has ALEC written all over it.

[hahagoodman]

reminds me of my late BIL Re: Benghazi

Red faced screaming “how do you know? WERE YOU THERE WERE YOU THERE ?!??!??”

[sparrowhawk]

@tsp

@pshah

I think in their pursuit of raw power, this new brand of Republican has no idea how to write a bill, pass a bill, or to govern.

Yes they do. Every bill they write has ALEC written all over it.

Though that ends up with all kinds of implementational headaches when they just take a bill verbatim from ALEC and it doesn’t actually work with the local state law, putting the law in conflict with itself after they rush it through the legislature without doing any markup or due diligence.

[ralph_vonholst]

Maybe.This will be a fascinating popcorn event in any case.

[txlawyer]

@ralph_vonholst

Liz could pull a Murkowski. Run as an independent, pick up some old guard GOP along with Dems.

Not enough Dems in Wyoming to make that a viable path to reelection.

@tsp

If that happened, she’d split the Republican vote, giving a good Democrat a chance to win.

Splitting the GOP vote in Wyoming only gets you to 35R/35R/27D/3. It would not really give a Dem a chance to win the seat, especially since a good bunch of them would figure they’re better off voting for Cheney as a spoiler against the MAGA candidate.

[tsp]

You missed my post about Republicans and their spite. There’s a good chance enough voters on either losing side in the Republican primary will decide to spite the winner and vote D instead, or just not vote at all. Just to spite. If T rumpp can make enough of the Wyoming Republican Party hate the other side, there’s a chance that could happen.

[debg]

There’s a lot of intentional and unintentional humor in this story. Liz Cheney as a far left radical Democrat???

[ralph_vonholst]

@txlawyer

Not enough Dems in Wyoming to make that a viable path to reelection.

Unless we include the dead ones and Hugo Chavez.

[inversion]

Nope.

I gotta boogie, but, a) a lot of chaos led to Doug Jones’ win, b) Roy Moore being a pack rat led to Doug Jones win and c) Jones’ resume contributed to his win and led to a feud with Alabama SOS Merrill.

[tsp]

(ahem) I think we’re witnessing chaos in the Wyoming Republican primary right now.

[txlawyer]

@tsp

There’s a good chance enough voters on either losing side in the Republican primary will decide to spite the winner and vote D instead, or just not vote at all.

It’s conceivable that some miffed primary supporters would stay home in November. There is zero chance any meaningful percentage of them would vote for the Dem.

[lastroth]

Back when Jay Nixon-D, was governor the Republican controlled legislature passed a ALEC written law. It Jay vetoed it, and explained that biggest reason he vetoed it was because this newly passed legislation would now start taxed medications, something we didn’t do previously. It was a beautiful thing to see see the egg on all the Republican’s faces after this.

[inversion]

Not enough

Chaos is normal in politics, but Harriet has to be, a) a klansman and b) a chinese intelligence agent for her to lose.

If she’s close to Parnell level drama, please wake me.

[tsp]

Then we just need T rumpp to step up his game.

1/2 /s

[debg]

Please no! Leave the underwear on, people!

[brian512]

@debg

There’s a lot of intentional and unintentional humor in this story. Liz Cheney as a far left radical Democrat???

As I said in another thread a day or two ago, I am no longer confident that the Trumpublicans and I are speaking the same language. It sounds a lot like English, but none of the words they’re using seem to mean what I think they do.

[rocklaverve]

@tsp

Who is the Democrat on the other side in this race?

There is the suggestion going around that Wyoming Dems sit out this race, so to clear the way for a Cheney third-party run.

[irasdad]

@inversion

Harriet has to be, a) klansman and b) a chinese intelligence agent for her to lose.

Have we absolutely, one-hundred-percent, categorically ruled out those two possibilities?

(Asking for a Cheney.)