Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was soundly beaten Tuesday by Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman in a widely watched Republican primary showdown.
In a concession speech after losing by a roughly 30-point margin, the third-term congresswoman compared herself to Abraham Lincoln, spoke of the importance of honoring the outcome of elections and repeatedly took aim at former President Donald Trump, whom she had voted to impeach after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“This is not a game. Every one of us must be committed to the eternal defense of this miraculous experiment called America,” Cheney said during the speech from Jackson, Wyoming.
It’s been a while since I checked in with electoral politics in the US, and it appears to be exactly the same as it has been for these past Politics in Fake Democracies are an eternal battle of who can be more insufferable. Gorland Blormph might be a complete and utter conman who runs on building a wall before giving mass amnesty, and frees a bunch of crack dealers from prison, but your alternative is Liz Cheney bloviating about how your country is a beautiful experiment, and not actually your home.
And this is just internal to the Republican Party.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was blasted by Republicans and conservatives after she compared herself to Abraham Lincoln in her concession speech following Tuesday’s primary loss.
“Abraham Lincoln was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election of all,” Cheney said of the 16th president after she was soundly beaten by Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
“Lincoln ultimately prevailed,” Cheney went on. “He saved our union and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history. Speaking at Gettysburg of the great task remaining before us, Lincoln said, ‘That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and a government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this Earth.’
“A clear message is being sent about what the Republican Party needs to be,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted in response. “It’s not anything like liar Liz Cheney, who is nothing like Abraham Lincoln.”
“Liz Cheney is no Abraham Lincoln but she looks and sounds more like Crooked Hillary [Clinton] by the day!” said Fox News personality Tomi Lahren.
“Liz Cheney compared herself to Abraham Lincoln last night in her concession speech,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) chimed in. “Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves from the Democrats, he didn’t become a slave to the Democrats.”
“Liz Cheney really compared herself to Lincoln … LMFAO. That CNN & MSDNC fluffing really got to her carpetbagger/warmonger head,” wrote Donald Trump Jr.
The layers of Finklethink here are unreal. First of all, Liz Cheney lost a primary to a nobody, if this makes her more like some famous politicians of the past, that’s a condemnation of them, not an endorsement of her. Secondly, I love how Cuckservatives are whining that the hallowed name of Abraham Lincoln is being abused by this GlOBaLisT.
The reality is that Abraham Lincoln is absolutely comparable to Liz Cheney. They were both total pieces of garbage who had no problem with the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people. In Lincoln’s case it was Americans. In Cheney’s case it was Iraqis, but let’s not pretend that she would feel the slightest sense of remorse dropping cluster munitions on American children.
Cheney should be getting crucified as the spoilt, narcissistic product of extreme nepotism. Instead the response comes from wannabe model/whore Lauren Boebert doing the most annoying version of DR3 that I have ever seen. This is apparently the political party that some midgets think you should be doing terrorism for.
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