Asking the Wrong Question About Liz Cheney

Don’t ask why we need to oust her. Ask why she was ever in leadership in the first place.

 

By Jeremy Carl  May 6, 2021

 

 To the delight of actual conservatives everywhere, it appears that U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will soon finally be out of the GOP leadership, rectifying a huge mistake made less than three months ago by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House GOP leadership when they steadfastly supported her against a groundswell of calls from voters for her removal.

At that time, McCarthy passionately defended her presence in leadership ahead of a secret ballot vote, with many describing his contribution as decisive in turning the tide toward keeping Cheney as House GOP conference chairman. That McCarthy would be forced to reverse himself just a few months later shows that his judgment as a leader is fatally flawed.

The question conservatives should be asking now is not why we need to oust Liz Cheney but how she ever got into leadership in the first place?...................Regardless of her personal feelings about Trump, if Cheney does not understand and explain to voters that the behavior of the Left, rather than that of Trump, constitutes an existential threat to our democracy, she is too naïve and stupid to be in GOP leadership.............The real scandal isn’t that Liz Cheney is no longer going to be a member of the Republican leadership. It’s that a mediocre veteran of one House term who was far out of step with her party’s voters ever got there in the first place. And that’s something for which McCarthy has to answer..............To Read More.....

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