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TexasTowelie

(117,041 posts) Thu Nov 18, 2021, 06:19 AM Nov 2021

Wyoming GOP votes to stop recognizing Cheney as a Republican

CASPER, Wyo. — 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.

Cheney has described her vote to impeach Trump as an act of conscience in defense of the Constitution. Trump "incited the mob" and "lit the flame" of that day's events, Cheney said after the attack.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1056025589/wyoming-gop-votes-to-stop-recognizing-cheney-as-a-republican

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Wyoming GOP votes to stop recognizing Cheney as a Republican (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2021 OP

The party of childish grievance Fullduplexxx Nov 2021 #1

You left out an adjective. TexasTowelie Nov 2021 #3

How reckless. no_hypocrisy Nov 2021 #2

Conservative or not bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #4

It is meaningless. If someone registers as a Republican, and identifies as a republican, they are JohnSJ Nov 2021 #5

Fullduplexxx

(8,296 posts)

1. The party of childish grievance

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Nov 18, 2021, 06:21 AM

Nov 2021

TexasTowelie

(117,041 posts)

3. You left out an adjective.

Reply to Fullduplexxx (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 18, 2021, 06:25 AM

Nov 2021

The party of perpetual childish grievance.

no_hypocrisy

(48,937 posts)

2. How reckless.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Nov 18, 2021, 06:24 AM

Nov 2021

Cheney is no Democrat by contrast.

She is still committed to the principles of limited government, lower federal taxes, stronger state governments, fiscal responsibility, free markets, etc.

The only thing that she shares with Democrats is her distrust of Donald J. Trump to lead both the Republicans and this country forward.

Even with Nixon and Watergate, Republicans hung together.

bucolic_frolic

(47,130 posts)

4. Conservative or not

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Nov 18, 2021, 07:07 AM

Nov 2021

I like her backbone, she's an elevation over her dad. She has principles. Just hope she stick with it, that Kinzinger stays with her, and that the Jan 6 Committee is a sort of bonding event with all the members. If you can't defend the founding ethos of the country I just don't know what you've got.

JohnSJ

(96,654 posts)

5. It is meaningless. If someone registers as a Republican, and identifies as a republican, they are

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Nov 18, 2021, 07:44 AM

Nov 2021

a Republican, regardless, what the state Republican Party says.

The same would apply to any political party.

If a person registers with a political party identification, that is the party they belong to

This just demonstrates how batshit crazy the Republican Party is

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