“The party insisted that you deny the evidence of your own eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, “1984”
Wyoming touts itself as Big Wonderful Wyoming, but frighteningly delusional might be a better advertising slogan, at least a more accurate one. The Republicans of this deep red state, who basically revere Liz Cheney’s father, Dick, as a god, voted to no longer recognize her as a Republican. Associated Press:
The Wyoming Republican Party will no longer recognize Liz Cheney as a member of the GOP in its second formal rebuke for her criticism of former President Donald Trump.
The 31-29 vote Saturday in Buffalo, Wyoming, by the state party central committee followed votes by local GOP officials in about one-third of Wyoming’s 23 counties to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican.
In February, the Wyoming GOP central committee voted overwhelmingly to censure Cheney, Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative, for voting to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
She got herself in this level of hot water by voting to impeach Trump and then by standing up to Trump for inciting the Capitol riot. Those actions got her bounced from her GOP leadership role in the House and now this.
It’s “laughable” for anybody to suggest Cheney isn’t a “conservative Republican,” Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler said by text message Monday.
“She is bound by her oath to the Constitution. Sadly a portion of the Wyoming GOP leadership has abandoned that fundamental principle and instead allowed themselves to be held hostage to the lies of a dangerous and irrational man,” Adler added.
Cheney is now facing at least four Republican opponents in the 2022 primary including Cheyenne attorney Harriet Hageman, whom Trump has endorsed. Hageman in a statement called the latest state GOP central committee vote “fitting,” the Casper Star-Tribune reported.
“Liz Cheney stopped recognizing what Wyomingites care about a long time ago. When she launched her war against President Trump, she completely broke with where we are as a state,” Hageman said.
Who are the “Wyoming-ITES?” Curious. When I grew up in Colorado they were “Wyomans” as we were Coloradans, the folks in Kansas were Kansans, etc. This is the first time I’ve heard that term of art.
The only good news in this is that if you look at the vote in Buffalo it was 31-29, which is razor thin. If the votes across the state have likewise been this close, then that speaks to the issue of this being a controversial issue, not a cut and dried one.
I am glad to see it’s controversial. I had many friends from Wyoming in the years I lived in Colorado. The majority of them left there because they couldn’t stand the backwards and provincial thinking, even though they appreciated growing up there for other reasons, clean air, wide open spaces, basically friendly folks.
This is not Wyoming’s finest hour, I can tell you that much. I venture to say that this black eye is going to be a source of embarrassment for many years to come. This is not a proud day for the GOP either.
Oh, those dummies…do they not realize that they have all but ensured her future political viability in a way Trump could only dream of? And FOUR primary opponents…REALLY? You only need ONE, ya dumbasses! What do you want to make a bet that none of them will support their other opponents when they inevitably lose, thus ensuring Cheney stays right where she’s at?
“The 31-29 vote Saturday in Buffalo, Wyoming, by the state party central committee followed votes by local GOP officials in about one-third of Wyoming’s 23 counties to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican.”
So, a MINORITY of GOP officials led to the STATE party choosing to strip Cheney’s status as a Republican? What about the GOP officials in the TWO-THIRDS of the 23 counties that aren’t mentioned? I think it’s time Darth Cheney invites some GOP officials on a series of hunting trips.
That privilege, Joseph, is reserved for peers who have gone astray. Whatever Cheney and his daughter have planned will be far more public and hurt far worse.
Should one of those morons actually win the ‘pube primary and worse, win the seat in the H.O.R., I certainly hope some other “oath” is is required other than the usual oath of office required of congressional members. They quite obviously will not protect and defend the constitution so taking an oath promising to do so is asinine. Administering it to them ought to be criminal.