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BaronChocula

(2,416 posts)
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 05:13 PM 10 hrs ago

What Liz Cheney just said in Michigan

She is alongside Vice President Harris.

You can vote your conscience and not ever have to say a word to anybody and there will be millions of republicans who do that on November 5th.


She was specifically talking about the Republicans who need not fear voting for the vice president. She thinks millions of Republicans will be voting for Harris. By my estimate, if even ONE million Republicans vote for Harris-Walz it will be a blowout. But I don't make predictions.
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What Liz Cheney just said in Michigan (Original Post) BaronChocula 10 hrs ago OP
I love how the narrative has flipped pattyloutwo 10 hrs ago #1
Amen! n/t BaronChocula 10 hrs ago #2
I've said this 100x on DU... so don't be annoyed. WarGamer 9 hrs ago #3
I think she wants to be in the Oval Office leftieNanner 8 hrs ago #5
Liz Cheney is finished Morbius 7 hrs ago #8
Agreed. Republicans hate her at this point. By the time it would take for her to rehabilitate herself Wiz Imp 7 hrs ago #11
Politics is not two-dimensional soldierant 8 hrs ago #6
Very Orwellian. jalan48 7 hrs ago #7
Not really. soldierant 7 hrs ago #10
She voted with Trump 93% of the time, not 99.8%. Wiz Imp 7 hrs ago #13
thx for the number... I was estimating WarGamer 7 hrs ago #14
I'm assuming you realize this post BaronChocula 6 hrs ago #15
i know... its my pet peeve thanks WarGamer 6 hrs ago #19
I dig it BaronChocula 6 hrs ago #22
Read her book, she gave up her political career to support the U.S. Constitution. Rhiannon12866 6 hrs ago #16
lol... WarGamer 6 hrs ago #20
I have it on disc, Liz Cheney reads it herself. Rhiannon12866 6 hrs ago #23
I postulate the idea that... WarGamer 6 hrs ago #27
As you know, she was on the January 6th Committee at the request of Nancy Pelosi Rhiannon12866 6 hrs ago #29
I know... doesn't change the way I feel. WarGamer 6 hrs ago #31
I recommend her book highly, she chronicles the details of TFG's abuses and lies and the violence of January 6th. Rhiannon12866 5 hrs ago #33
Frankly it's irrelevant. WarGamer 5 hrs ago #35
I think she is hoping to revive her career Tree Lady 6 hrs ago #17
I just don't see that happening BaronChocula 6 hrs ago #21
LOL jalan48 5 hrs ago #34
I agree dems don't want her Tree Lady 3 hrs ago #38
Your bottom line is all that matters. OAITW r.2.0 6 hrs ago #28
"How do Trump and Cheney differ?" Only Trump did an insurrection. eShirl 4 hrs ago #36
I truly think the reverse-Bradley is going to be in effect in November Coexist 9 hrs ago #4
"not ever have to say a word to anybody"? JustABozoOnThisBus 7 hrs ago #9
That's because BaronChocula 6 hrs ago #25
I'd love to see Liz Cheney switch parties... Initech 7 hrs ago #12
I think VP Harris will win white women by a few percent Tribetime 6 hrs ago #18
I was actually surprised to hear her answer on the abortion issue. She has been Bev54 6 hrs ago #24
I missed that part BaronChocula 6 hrs ago #26
I think the Dodd's decision might have changed a lot of peoples minds. The fact is that pre Roe v Wade, going Jmb 4 Harris-Walz 3 hrs ago #37
'there will be millions of republicans who do that on November 5th.' elleng 6 hrs ago #30
She has been very gracious. Her remarks on women cachukis 5 hrs ago #32

pattyloutwo

(382 posts)
1. I love how the narrative has flipped
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 05:18 PM
10 hrs ago

from secret T voters to secret Kamala voters. I also love: vote your conscience - appealing to what is good and right🌟

WarGamer

(14,800 posts)
3. I've said this 100x on DU... so don't be annoyed.
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 05:27 PM
9 hrs ago

Let's be rational.

Tell me WHY Liz Cheney is supporting VP Harris.

Liz Cheney voted with Trump like 99.8% of the time.

How do Trump and Cheney differ?

Don't believe the "Liz supports Democracy" bullshit. She doesn't.

Oh THERE is the rub.

Liz is a neocon believing in American hegemony and world domination.

Trump is a populist leaning to take the US OUT of global entanglements and global politics and war.

The neocons have been working hard since Irving Kristol (not a coincidence, Bill Kristols Dad) and other disaffected Democrats grew tired of the groovy peace and free love, pot smoking and Civil Rights supporting young people in the 60's...

Their dream come true when Reagan was in the WH and the Berlin Wall fell...

Then things got boring being a neocon until Shrub came along and colluded with PNAC and Liz's Daddy starting an illegal war...

Life was good again for neocons until Trump came along and single handedly KILLED the movement.

Liz Cheney and the neocon filth are currently glomming onto the Democratic Party looking for crumbs and helping with foreign policy in Israel (kill everyone not Israeli) and the proxy war in Ukraine.




Bottom line... I want Trump to lose and if Cheney helps, OK...

But for God's sake... kick her to the curb on Nov. 6th!!!!

PLEASE.

leftieNanner

(15,628 posts)
5. I think she wants to be in the Oval Office
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 06:56 PM
8 hrs ago

As POTUS some day, and she knows that would not happen if tfg is elected.

Morbius

(52 posts)
8. Liz Cheney is finished
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:28 PM
7 hrs ago

She will never hold elected office again. The Republicans have shunned her and the Democrats don't care for her views. I think she's angling for a career on television, perhaps on MSNBC.

Wiz Imp

(1,106 posts)
11. Agreed. Republicans hate her at this point. By the time it would take for her to rehabilitate herself
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:44 PM
7 hrs ago

with Republicans (if she ever could), she will be too old for people to view her as a choice for President.

soldierant

(7,736 posts)
6. Politics is not two-dimensional
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:21 PM
8 hrs ago

See The Political Compass.

Left and Right represent economic theories. But there is also and Up and Down where Up represents Authoritarianism and Down represents Egalitarianism.

She is clearly in the Right side (which is the wrong wide.) But, at least for now, she is equally clearly on the Down side, which is the right side.

We tend to match up Left and Down and also Up and Right. They seem to be natural fits.But it is also completely possible to possible for someone to be Up and Left or on the other hand Down and Right. It's also possible to respect a person who is anti-authoritarian for that stand while at the same time deploring that person's stance on the economic right. Just as most people can walk and chew gum at the same time.


soldierant

(7,736 posts)
10. Not really.
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:38 PM
7 hrs ago

In both Animal Farm nor 1984 he combined Up and Right (and took both to extrenes.) Up and Right going together is thr stereotype.

Wiz Imp

(1,106 posts)
13. She voted with Trump 93% of the time, not 99.8%.
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:52 PM
7 hrs ago

I think you are overstating her positions on some things to the point of fearmongering but I'm not going to try to argue with any of it at this point. I'll just say you are correct that she should not be considered a long term ally of the Democratic party in any way. But if she can help Democrats win this election, more power to her (thru November 5).

BaronChocula

(2,416 posts)
15. I'm assuming you realize this post
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 08:25 PM
6 hrs ago

was in no way laudatory of Cheney and you were just venting and expressing that you feel the same way I do about her. I'm clearly not giving her any plaudits. I could have prefaced with my rant about her, but didn't find it necessary.

I only cited her as a credible source of what may come, she being a republican.

WarGamer

(14,800 posts)
27. I postulate the idea that...
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 09:05 PM
6 hrs ago

If a neocon toady like Jeb! was elected in 2016 and they plotted to steal the election after losing in 2020...

Liz Cheney would have been on the steps of the Capitol swinging a flag pole.

Here affection for "Democracy" is undeniably situational.

Rhiannon12866

(219,531 posts)
29. As you know, she was on the January 6th Committee at the request of Nancy Pelosi
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 09:13 PM
6 hrs ago

And in her book she gives details and names names - Kevin McCarthy, Gym Jordan, Mike Johnson - and gives details of that terrible day. She was in serious danger, attacked publicly by TFG, but she has continued to step up, joining VP Harris on the campaign trail to support the Constitution and democracy in this country. And Kamala Harris is not the first Democrat who she has endorsed and voted for,

Rhiannon12866

(219,531 posts)
33. I recommend her book highly, she chronicles the details of TFG's abuses and lies and the violence of January 6th.
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 09:30 PM
5 hrs ago

WarGamer

(14,800 posts)
35. Frankly it's irrelevant.
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 10:15 PM
5 hrs ago

It's like an author chronicling the history of the New York Yankees...

It doesn't do anything other than outline publicly known facts.

She has created this persona for professional, media and political consumption.

I ASSURE you that she's more committed to the principles of Neoconservatism than she's concerned with "Democracy" other than THEIR definition.

Her interests center around destroying Trump for 1) vengeance and 2) rebuilding the neocon brand.

I'd suggest reading Neoconservatism by Justin Vaisse, a Senior Fellow at Brookings.

It's a religion with those folks. Liz Cheney is a zealot.

For VP Harris and the rest of us... she MAY be a useful idiot up until 11/5... and I appreciate that... but she's still a skunk

OAITW r.2.0

(27,870 posts)
28. Your bottom line is all that matters.
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 09:11 PM
6 hrs ago

"Bottom line....I want Trump to lose and if Cheney helps, OK"

Rxactly.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,723 posts)
9. "not ever have to say a word to anybody"?
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:34 PM
7 hrs ago

Mrs Bozo and I sit at the kitchen table and fill out our ballots together, discussing everything.

Not that there's much to discuss: we both fill out the box for "all Democratic", then move to the non-partisan sections. But it would make it difficult for one of us to secretly vote for, say, RFK Jr.

BaronChocula

(2,416 posts)
25. That's because
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 08:53 PM
6 hrs ago

like good Democrats you vote early and by mail. A lot of THOSE OTHER people still wait until Election Day.



Initech

(101,455 posts)
12. I'd love to see Liz Cheney switch parties...
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:46 PM
7 hrs ago

And then run against and flush MAGA turd Harriet Hageman down the Fox News sewer she came from!

Tribetime

(5,922 posts)
18. I think VP Harris will win white women by a few percent
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 08:40 PM
6 hrs ago

Maybe the only voters she won't win is white males....
Those white guys are a disgrace to this old white guy.

Bev54

(11,735 posts)
24. I was actually surprised to hear her answer on the abortion issue. She has been
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 08:50 PM
6 hrs ago

staunch pro-life to the point of crazy IMO. But today she said that what the Dodd's decision has done to women is just wrong and needs to be corrected. She has given permission to other pro-life women to vote for Harris, if that is their hangup.

BaronChocula

(2,416 posts)
26. I missed that part
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 08:57 PM
6 hrs ago

It rebuts a certain rapist's claim that Dobbs is "what everybody wanted." But we already know he's fullashit.

Jmb 4 Harris-Walz

(619 posts)
37. I think the Dodd's decision might have changed a lot of peoples minds. The fact is that pre Roe v Wade, going
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 11:25 PM
3 hrs ago

to hospital during a miscarriage didn’t have the same ramifications as it does now. Women are literally dying or getting to the brink of death before being given necessary medical assistance.

The current laws in those states with an abortion ban are draconian in the extreme. Even those with exceptions for rape, incest, to save the mother’s life, or because the fetus will not be able to survive out of the womb.

Circumstances have changed, making even pro-life supporters rethink their positions.

cachukis

(2,478 posts)
32. She has been very gracious. Her remarks on women
Mon Oct 21, 2024, 09:26 PM
5 hrs ago

receiving appropriate health care were sensible.
Everyone is dealt cards. She has plenty of money. Relevance, then, becomes her presence.
Perhaps this experience will be cathartic. Regardless, she is on display as an American fighting for democracy.
Suspect she is aware of her family's place in history and this support of the Constitution softens that view.
She has had a constiuency to support her conservative values.
We don't have to agree with them, but she got elected to represent them.
Isn't that America?

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