With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell having congratulated Joe Biden on his ostensible “victory,” the usual suspects in the establishment are licking their chops under the delusion that the GOP has any national viability absent Trump and the agenda he ran on in 2016. Toward this end, there is already a struggle for leadership underway within the Republican Party, both literally and ideologically. And Washington’s toxic, failing establishment already knows who it wants to win: Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney, daughter of George W. Bush’s vice president. This cannot be allowed to happen.
Liz Cheney is the older of Dick’s two daughters and has been Wyoming’s sole House representative for the past four years. After less than four years in Washington, Cheney had already become Chair of the House Republican Conference, effectively the number three Republican behind Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise. Cheney turned down a chance to become one of Wyoming’s two senators this fall, indicating that she has her eyes set on becoming Speaker of the House.
Washington is eager to help her get there. Even before November 3, the Beltway press were hyping up Cheney as the GOP’s future.
“‘She Kind of Reminds You of Margaret Thatcher’: Liz Cheney Prepares To Make Her Move” raved a November 1 headline on Politico:
Behind her veneer of support for President Trump—she votes with him “something like 97 percent of the time,” she bragged on “Fox & Friends” in July—there’s a far harsher reality: Many of her and her father’s closest friends and ideological allies have become the most virulent Trump critics. The large group, which includes former national security adviser John Bolton, Steve Schmidt, Steve Hayes, Bill Kristol, and Jennifer Rubin, are rooting for Liz to restore their brand of conservatism after Trump. […]
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