Kevin, Kevin, surely you don’t believe you’re smarter than Darth Vader? Could you be that stupid, Kevin? I mean, Dick Cheney invented the Big Lie long before Trump did, with his weapons of mass destruction spiel, but he didn’t work for a guy who went so far as to incite right-wing lunatics to smear caa caa on the marble floors of the Capitol. Dick Cheney knew how to keep it together and you don’t, Kevin.
I think it’s reasonable to infer that Liz Cheney isn’t making these kinds of seemingly outrageous and self destructive moves on the chess board without consulting with a Machiavellian master and she happens to have one on speed dial and calls him Dad.
In all events, Liz Cheney has discovered a GOP Deep State-esque, intraparty plot of her own, and when she says what she knows, this baby is going to blow. But go ahead, Kev, throw the match. Washington Post:
The refusal to accept reality, she realized, went much deeper.
When staff from the National Republican Congressional Committee rose to explain the party’s latest polling in core battleground districts, they left out a key finding about Trump’s weakness, declining to divulge the information even when directly questioned about Trump’s support by a member of Congress, according to two people familiar with what transpired.
Trump’s unfavorable ratings were 15 points higher than his favorable ones in the core districts, according to the full polling results, which were later obtained by The Washington Post. Nearly twice as many voters had a strongly unfavorable view of the former president as had a strongly favorable one.
Cheney was alarmed, she later told others, in part because Republican campaign officials had also left out bad Trump polling news at a March retreat for ranking committee chairs. Both instances, she concluded, demonstrated that party leadership was willing to hide information from their own members to avoid the truth about Trump and the possible damage he could do to Republican House members, even though the NRCC denied any such agenda. [emphasis added]
Where the GOP stands right now, with Lindsey Graham parroting, “there’s no way this party is going to stay together without President Trump and his supporters. There is no construct where the party can be successful without him,” and with Liz Cheney on the other side, doing everything she can to create a post-Trump GOP, it’s a madhouse. No wonder Paul Ryan is staying silent, despite entreaties for him to come out of hiding and take a stance. And forget about knocking on Mitch McConnell’s shell, he’s staying put.
Now it’s coming out how Liz Cheney “quietly organized an essay by 10 former defense secretaries declaring the election results settled and warning the military not to be involved in Trump’s election protest.” At the time that that happened, it seemed pretty ballsy and it crossed my mind if Darth Vader was taking a stance — guess what? He was.
Working closely with her father, former vice president Richard B. Cheney, the congresswoman volunteered to recruit Jim Mattis, the former Marine general who had served as Trump’s first defense secretary; Leon Panetta, who served as defense secretary in the Obama administration; and Donald H. Rumsfeld, who was defense secretary while her father was vice president, Edelman said.
The opinion piece also warned the military that any involvement in election disputes was dangerous. Richard B. Cheney’s role in organizing the defense secretaries soon became public, but the congresswoman’s role was kept quiet at the time.
I don’t know, Kevin. If you want to oppose Darth Vader, I guess that’s up to you. But here’s the bottom line and you and Lindsey are living in a dream world if you think the Mango Monarch is going to save you — although he is going out on the road soon to gin up the rabble and con them out of their money, but that doesn’t equate with assuring that the 2022 midterms go into the GOP column. As a matter of fact, he just might phuque things up more than he helps things.
The debate over Trump’s potentially negative impact on swing districts is likely to escalate in the coming months, as vulnerable Republicans try to position themselves for reelection.
The internal NRCC poll partially shared with lawmakers in April found that President Biden was perilously popular in core battleground districts, with 54 percent favorability. Vice President Harris was also more popular than Trump, the poll showed. Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid stimulus plan and his $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure package both polled higher than the former president’s favorability, which was at 41 percent, compared to 42 percent in February.
A person familiar with the polling presentation said many details from the battleground poll did not make it into the NRCC’s 30-minute address in Orlando.
“We gladly share any and all information with the members of our conference, which is evidenced by the unfortunate fact The Washington Post has an internal poll,” NRCC spokesman Michael McAdams said in a statement about the polling results.
The Washington Post has it because it was leaked. What got communicated to the conference is something else altogether — at least, that is Liz Cheney’s contention and that’s the firebomb that’s about to explode.
This is going to be an interesting week. As Murfster likes to say, “don’t touch that dial.”
I may not care for Liz Cheney much, or her evil father, but I will cheer her on throwing truth bombs on the clown car.
Either the GOP is going to try to get its bearings or it’s going to be the party of Trump and those will be its bearings. I find it sobering in the extreme that people within the GOP are withholding information from one another. To me that seems like a recipe for catastrophe.
That’s a hallmark of fascist regimes: all the snivelling sycophants trying to curry favour with the dictator spend their time knifing one another in the back. Sometimes literally, as in Hitler’s court, where very unpleasant death via the Gestapo awaited those who were made to appear disloyal. Withholding info from colleagues is a sure way to undermine their status within the hierarchy.
Luke Skywalker may have defeated Darth Vader but Kevin McCarthy ain’t Luke Skywalker! McCarthy’s Cosplaying with a toy lightsaber against the family Cheney and a political Darth Vader like ole Dick is NOT the path to a long career and a favorable mention in the history books.
No, McCarthy not only is not Luke Skywalker, McCarthy isn’t even one of the guys with the red shirts in Star Trek.
Darth Vader has a light saber. Red-shirts have phasers. Kevin McCarthy’s got nothing.
Maybe she should do like Agnes Nutter in “Good Omens”: load up on black powder and shrapnel.
Kevin is such a loser. He wants to be Speaker and he’s just too stupid. They all have broke dicks, and no spine or brain. All the Republicans are lost in a lie and knifing each other. Love watching them implode. We need term limits. Then all this shit is over.