The Last-Ditch Attempt to Rescue Liz Cheney
12th August 2022
Liz Cheney, who sounds and looks increasingly like Hillary Clinton, has effectively consigned the 70 percent of Wyoming citizens who voted for Donald Trump two years ago to the category of “deplorables.” Less than a week out from the open Republican primary, she is reported by the New York Times to be reconciled to losing her bid for a fourth term as Wyoming’s sole congressional representative. As Emerson said on learning that Margaret Fuller, the American journalist and Transcendentalist, had decided to accept the universe, “She’d better.”
Still, La Cheney continues to fight hard for something; the question is what. Her campaign recently released an ad featuring her father, the former vice president and Secretary of War (both Cheneys believe in getting in ahead of Defense), glowering from beneath the brim of his Stetson as he denounced Donald Trump as a coward and the greatest threat to the American Republic in 246 years. Cheney Sr. then praised his daughter for standing up to man more monstrous than Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Putin, Xi, and Pat Buchanan. A woman like that should be auditioning for a role on Game of Thrones, not the privilege of representing 97, 914 miles of sagebrush, alkali, granite, and ice inhabited by 581,853 pedigreed descendants of Fred and Wilma Flintstone.