Friday, October 4, 2024

Hate As a Motive

Our former WY Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) is now supporting Kamala Harris for president. As Red State notes, she does this not out of a change of political philosophy but out of hatred for one man - Donald Trump. 

What the article doesn't say is why she hates Trump. It is, I believe, because he dissed her father - Dick Cheney - and his former boss George W. Bush. 

The truth is Bush/Cheney didn't accomplish much, weren't very upset by the Democrats' open borders, and weren't populists. They did wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that proved nothing.

Trump did what no Republican is supposed to do. He said Bush/Cheney were ho-hum, nothing special guys who hadn't deserved the office they held.

Liz must really be a Daddy's Girl, she has never forgiven Trump for that slur. She is at present the biggest publicly avowed quisling the GOP suffers, although Mike Pence comes close. Hate seems her primary motive, and it blinds her to everything else that should matter to her, and to our country.

Afterthought: Making a sports analogy, lose two Cheneys, gain a Musk and a Zuckerberg. It is a decent trade.