Appalling.
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One of the most appalling things to happen in this appalling chapter in American politics is that former vice president Dick Cheney has endorsed Kamala Harris for president.
Kamala Harris, despite her current efforts to hide the fact, is a radical, far-left San Francisco liberal. She is by an order of magnitude the most far-left candidate the Democratic Party has ever nominated.
How a guy who was vice president in a Republican administration and who was one of the earliest endorsers of Ronald Reagan’s candidacy for president could endorse Kamala Harris seems to defy understanding.
But look a little deeper and understanding begins to emerge.
Save for the four and a half years during which he was chairman and CEO of Halliburton, Dick Cheney spent his entire career in the elite circles of official Washington. Dick Cheney is a part of the Washington establishment that managed – irrespective of which party was momentarily in charge – to put the nation $35 trillion in debt while concurrently diminishing the personal wealth of average Americans.
The term “average Americans” for this discussion is defined as the 160-plus million people who live between the coasts, get up and go to work every day, raise their children, and pay their taxes. This is the pool from which Donald Trump draws the lion’s share of his support.
By 2016, disgust among these voters with establishment Washington was sufficient to give rise to Trump’s otherwise improbable presidency. In this space in November 2022, I wrote this:
We’ve been led for decades by a small, inbred group of elitist Ivy Leaguers and they have made a pig’s breakfast of it. By this time in its history the United States should be substantially debt free, economically strong, and well-capable of deterring the world’s bad actors.
Racial animus in America should be on the wane.
Prosperity should be making its way through every demographic group in the country. Today’s generation of black and Hispanic parents should be approaching their old age secure in the knowledge that their children will be better off than they were.
Today, none of those things is true.
Trump’s arrival caused the scales to fall from the eyes of people like you and me who once were excited about a guy like Mitt Romney. (How the hell were we ever excited about Mitt Romney?) Trump brought long overdue clarity. We owe him for that.”
Though I admit to being blind to it during his time as VP, Cheney is the embodiment of the disdain expressed in the preceding paragraphs. His fealty to the customs and niceties of establishment Washington now exceeds any fealty to conservative governance he might have once had.
Cheney can support whomever he wants. It’s a free country. But his public endorsement of Kamala Harris is a slap in the face to the good people who once supported him and who valiantly defended him against the same vile, truth-starved slander that is now routinely visited upon Donald Trump by Democrats and their media handmaidens.
Cheney should be ashamed.
Amen ! His “nickname” suits him perfectly!!
Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well said Paul – very disappointing
Why do you or anyone cares what Cheney , Swift or anyone else says. Have we lost our power to think for ourselves. Technology hasn’t helped us at all. Even today I won’t send sympathy or thank you cards by email…. Real card ,handwritten with a stamp.
As Tyrus said couple nights ago on Gutfeld, Swift is one (uno) vote. Cheney is one vote. Liz Cheney is one vote. For their one vote; there are three good people in those states that will cancel their votes. But, given the times and situation Dick Cheney helped govern in; he should be ashamed of himself and should be held in account. The Obama, Biden, Harris administration wantonly forked over billions of tax dollars to the one Entity of Evil; Iran to do their “Hate and Death to America and Israel” mission. IF he really supports that; which apparently he does with such an endorsement; then may the fleas of a thousand camels infest his home. That is quoting Homomid the Near East Astrologer and Card Reader. But I agree with him totally; Tyrus that is.
I am embarrassed I defended him over the years, but his endorsement of K.H. proves the statement I have been making for years. We have no patriots in DC, just politicians, and a politician is defined as someone who tells you what you want to hear when campaigning and then governs differently.
We should all thank DJT. I will admit when he came down the escalator in 2015 I thought he was going to screw up the candidacy of a “real republican”. Now, I am so glad he did. He has single-handedly destroyed the political dynasties of The Bush, Clinton, McCain, Romney and Cheney klans. Hopefully he will destroy Harris this fall and destroy the legacy of Obama. This will leave the democrat party like a ship without a rudder, with the possible exception of a Liz Warren or (even better) AOC becoming the Captain. (Boy, now won’t that be fun). Lets see if we cant lose some more RINO’s also!
I was blind too Paul. There was a time that Dick Cheney was somebody I wanted to be our president, but like the old Hank Williams song, “I Saw the Light.” As for Taylor Swift, unfortunately, there are miliiions of heads full of mush, as Rush would say, who take anything she says as gospel. Hopefully, like when she endorsed Phil Bredesen in Tennessee against Marsha Blackburn, either those minds full of mush will forget to vote or will come to their senses. As for Dick Cheney, don’t think he has any gravitas anymore.