The fact that the House Republican caucus did not dare to have a secret ballot on the removal vote of Liz Cheney from their leadership tells you all you need to know: they were afraid she would get a lot of votes and make them look bad.
This is entirely appropriate for a newly founded party based entirely on disinformation, hate, and lies.
Please share widely!
I think your first line needs an edit. My understanding is that they did have a secret ballot and they did not dare have an open ballot. That also makes more sense in the context of the rest of what you say.
It was a voice vote in point of fact so that no tally had to be taken of those who voted against her.
Cowardly Puke party took down Cheney with a gutless UNRECORDED voice vote!
Correct. It was a voice vote, which hid that vote from attachment to any individual for all history.
Why would anyone on here be supportive of the decision of this anti-democratic party’s creation and imposition of a surreal new Republican ‘Honesty Closet’?
Truth is the first requirement to keep a democracy.
This is factually incorrect. I do not need to edit my first sentence. You might want to edit yours.
Yes voice rather than recorded vote, but I thought the point was that nobody would know how people voted which is also what a secret ballot would have accomplished. Not sure why a simple lack of clarity on my part got treated quite so harshly.
Time for a little reality. Why would anyone in their right mind miss Lynn Cheney or her ideas? Her ideas are horrible. Did you hear her speech, her rhapsodizing over Ronald Reagan? Pukeworthy!
So what if the people who threw her out of the GOP leadership are bad people? Politics is about reality. Cheney’s on her way out–that’s all that matters. Crying over Lynn Cheney is the type of purism that gives us purists a bad name.
I enthusiastically agree with you. I was revolted to hear Don Lemon on CNN describe Ms. Cheney as “the soul of the GOP”.
One outcome of this bizarre circus is that today’s GOP collapses into a powerless political puddle (how’s THAT for alliteration). There are indications that a new party is being born. We can all hope that Donald Trump and Trumpism is dead as a political force.
Politics is also sometimes about strange bedfellows. I won’t vote for her over a Dem of course, but if she does pursue the presidency in 2024 and becomes the nominee that will be a step in the right direction. We’re never going to have a conservative-free politics, but we can at least hope for people across the spectrum to be grounded in reality.