{"id":1693,"date":"2022-08-18T04:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T04:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2022-08-18T04:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T04:52:01","slug":"why-liz-cheney-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"Why Liz Cheney Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='post-thumb'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/markethive.com\/uploads\/azcats72\/images\/posted-images\/New%20MH%20Blog%20Images%20-%20Abe%20Lincoln_001.jpeg' style='height:1px; width:1px' \/><\/div>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"font-size:36px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">Why Liz Cheney Lost<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:22px\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">by<strong> Dana Loesch, Chapter&nbsp;and Verse<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img alt=\"Why Liz Cheney Lost\" src=\"https:\/\/markethive.com\/uploads\/azcats72\/images\/posted-images\/New%20MH%20Blog%20Images%20-%20Abe%20Lincoln_001.jpeg\" style=\"height:478px; width:850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:22px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">Mean tweets don&rsquo;t derail a republic but a weak economy will.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Liz Cheney lost in devastating fashion last night, 66-28% against Harriet Hageman. It was a loss of her own making. She doesn&rsquo;t see it that way.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>She unironically compared herself to Abraham Lincoln<\/strong> in her concession speech after accusing Trump of being a self-obsessed egomaniac. She called the Republican party a &ldquo;cult of personality&rdquo; but had her father, former Vice-President Dick Cheney, cut a campaign ad where he called Trump as an individual the &ldquo;greatest threat to our republic&rdquo; accusing him of trying to &ldquo;steal the election.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/0c4b55e0-c1fe-46a0-a2a2-0c0b58ec909e?r=9k8ye\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><img alt=\"Twitter avatar for @deirdrekwalsh\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/2FhvllPxlrNo_OdechtGjeKw1NdANxmoFXl2NEbGI4U92wdu-VUiU-JE1QpemM068Hj-pRqJhVt6fJq_FRAnxyo3I7DigmTFYx7fAe_MH5SqN72g=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/twitter_name\/w_36\/deirdrekwalsh.jpg\" \/>Deirdre Walsh @deirdrekwalsh<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/0c4b55e0-c1fe-46a0-a2a2-0c0b58ec909e?r=9k8ye\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">New: Cheney&#39;s next step &#8211; her spokesman confirms she will launch a new political org (1st reported by Politico) -says will &quot;educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our Republic, and to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president,&rdquo;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/82a0fb97-8410-4418-8fdb-4514d5459f24?r=9k8ye\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><img alt=\"Twitter avatar for @TODAYshow\" src=\"https:\/\/ci5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ymsDZC9pDZ9RfeFchbCIrlTH6_6bzq9ljEeiKzKbTHmJuP2Ft2nTgbeCnfBYcibA3pWD-LZwMDWdqzY0ftvRZX5p9-OHy3fIwjzgGGrbh0E=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/twitter_name\/w_36\/TODAYshow.jpg\" \/>TODAY @TODAYshow<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/82a0fb97-8410-4418-8fdb-4514d5459f24?r=9k8ye\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll make a decision in the coming months.&rdquo; &mdash; Rep. Liz Cheney said about possibly running for President. <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/82a0fb97-8410-4418-8fdb-4514d5459f24?r=9k8ye\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><img alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/ci5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/2NuA37E9Qs954yi53TkYhYPYURtfrR8ls-Pgm0RI0K5QrpphBss1fcaDw9xH1X1jTpk4Q9YwNFPGUA1YZchJ_mYfQ9Zkf5IYthRU4UEg14KZZLXPUPOpAc7BM4urXmTLRggIgSjW2JZghiGMHO56oTfT7lyo0JEtqCihfV8=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/upload\/w_728,c_limit\/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_120\/fcih6tqtituco14jfttv\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">August 17th, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">The greatest threat to our republic isn&rsquo;t a roundly-condemned riot at the Capitol or Democrat hyperbole, it&rsquo;s inflation, recession, a lack of energy independence, over-taxation, weaponization of government agencies against political opposition, ironically helped by the civil liberties-violating, Dick Cheney-backed Patriot Act.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">The greatest threat is<em>&nbsp;not<\/em>&nbsp;political jockeying and tone-deaf ambition from disgruntled candidates.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">This is solely about one lone candidate&rsquo;s political ambition wrapped up as some white-knight fever dream.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">This isn&rsquo;t about the &ldquo;values&rdquo; and &ldquo;principles&rdquo; Cheney and her surrogates invoke &mdash; what values and principles? Are low taxes, life, energy independence, a strong Second Amendment, and a fairly non-interventionist foreign policy not values of the Republican party?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Hating Trump is neither a &ldquo;value&rdquo; nor a principle.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Acknowledging the achievements of the previous administration isn&rsquo;t a violation of principles, either, nor a pledge of fealty.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Voters watched Cheney sacrifice attention from&nbsp;<em>their<\/em>&nbsp;values and concerns: inflation, recession, supply chain crisis, and high gas prices, in favor of fighting Trump.&nbsp;Her &ldquo;fight&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t pay rent, create jobs, or put food on the table. In fact, under the previous administration, those things were more affordable.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">During Trump&rsquo;s tenure, we received one of the biggest tax cuts in our nation&rsquo;s history, one of the lowest unemployment rates in half a century, enacted major deregulation, the Abraham Accords, no new wars, and the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, with Trump stopping per the advice of military counsel, unlike Biden after him.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">The left is eager to give wings to this flightless fantasy that Cheney &ldquo;lost the fight but could still win the battle&rdquo; but what battle, exactly?&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Mean tweets don&rsquo;t derail a republic but a weak economy will.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">You can disagree with your party without burning down the barn and alienating voters. Politicians are merely avatars for voter sentiment. Blaming Trump for Cheney&rsquo;s problems ignores the issues with Cheney that pre-date Trump. Her last name alone irked the tea party, who opposed the idea of family dynasties back in 2008. These criticisms laid the foundation not just for Trump, but also for a less interventionist GOP. Candidates time-stamped for the late 90s or early aughts aren&rsquo;t appealing anymore.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">I don&rsquo;t know what battlefield Cheney thinks she&rsquo;s on, but it&rsquo;s not where the rest of America is fighting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markethive.com\/azcats72\"><img src=\"https:\/\/markethive.com\/images\/banners\/4501.gif\" style=\"height:70px; width:700px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><strong>New Opportunities Are Emerging For Citizens of The World.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><strong>Freedom and democracy<\/strong> may appear to be struggling to stay alive in America, but there may be a knock-out punch ready to be released. The&nbsp;evolution of the blockchain-enabled metaverse is going to enable the <strong>&#39;Citizens of the World&#39;<\/strong> to gain their own <strong>Freedom<\/strong>&nbsp;by democratizing&nbsp;power and creating a new world with new rules, new players, and new opportunities. For 99.99% of us, the metaverse will improve our real-world lives by democratizing power and opportunity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Along with the major long-term trend of society&nbsp;towards <strong>decentralization<\/strong> and smaller-scale organizations,&nbsp;there are&nbsp;new opportunities developing to help &#39;Preparers&#39; in the cryptocurrency sector. Businesses are beginning to issue their own Crypto Coins that can be traded on Cryptocoin Exchanges.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/markethive.com\/azcats72\">Markethive.com<\/a>&nbsp;will release its HiveCoin (HIV) in the coming weeks. It has tremendous upside potential that is outlined in a Video by Founder Tom Prendergast, &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZHh1PFqL9r4&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Entrepreneur Advantage&#8230;<\/a>&quot;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Not only that, if you go to their website and register as a FREE Member, you will be given&nbsp;<strong>500 HiveCoins<\/strong>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<em><strong>&quot;FREE&quot;<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;along with access to several Earning Opportunities and online tools to increase your HiveCoin balance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Be sure to check it out today &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/markethive.com\/azcats72\">Markethive.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markethive.com\/azcats72\"><img alt=\"Markethive\" src=\"https:\/\/markethive.com\/uploads\/azcats72\/images\/posted-images\/image-20210404155610-1.png\" style=\"height:168px; width:500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Tim Moseley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Liz Cheney Lost by Dana Loesch, Chapter&nbsp;and Verse &nbsp; Mean tweets don&rsquo;t derail a republic but a weak economy will. &nbsp; Liz Cheney lost in devastating fashion last night, 66-28% against Harriet Hageman. It was a loss of her own making. She doesn&rsquo;t see it that way. 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