Posted on 07/11/2022 1:39:45 PM PDT by cotton1706
Republican lawmakers privately support to Rep. Liz Cheney but refuse to do so in public for fear of former President Donald Trump, according to extracts from a new book.
The claim appeared in "Thank You For Your Servitude," by Mark Leibovich, a political writer who speak years at The New York Times Magazine and now writes for The Atlantic.
The book is devoted to exploring Trump's circle, and alleges that many people who support him in public are hypocrites who privately dislike him.
One Republican member of Congress to vocally oppose Trump is Cheney, who was stripped of a party leadership role in 2021 for criticizing the former president.
Since then, Cheney has found an influential spot as one of two Republicans on the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol.
In his book, Leibovich wrote: "The wonder of this was that many Republicans agree with Cheney, quite a few of them members of her caucus. They say as much, tell her what a great job she is doing, how heroic she's been."
"But they only ever tell her this privately, always privately—just between you and me, please don't repeat this, off the record, okay?"
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
We’re well aware there are RINOs left to purge.
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But many of them are closet RINOs and harder to weed out.
True, but even worse is the vague accusation without any names—because, OF COURSE, they are afraid of Trump!
Circular reasoning and they think no one will notice.
Put up a tariff elimination bill. That will pull RINOS out of the woodwork.
The Republican leaders’ biggest fear is voters waking up to their subterfuge and backstabbing.
I think its starting to happen.
The rath of the Ultra MAGA King.
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LOL. The Left truly fears the Orange Man. Its visceral.
“Purge of the RINOs.”
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Now there’s a theme we can get behind.
Let’s do it!
GOP Bails Out Joe.
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Situation Normal.
LOL. You’re on fire.
RINOs being skewered by their own words.
Yet another FOS liberal “book”. Who buys that crap?
Liz’s big problem is NONE of them live in WY.
Liz is toast as is her goal to be VP for anyone.
They say it to her off the record and then laugh at her when she walks away. Typical In-crowd behavior.
Dirty fake republicans secretly like lez but stay in the closet with the other libtards 🤪
Actually it is a fear of the voters. They do not want to get voted out. That is the only thing they care about.
I wish it were so but I absolutely do believe that many republicans in congress are absolutely not really on our side. They used run on promises of things they have zero intention of doing (repeal and replace Obamacare, anyone?) but this year with rampant inflation and the worst President in modern history they've taken on a new approach: they stand for nothing. try to find a GOP incumbent who is taking a stand on any issues at all. The strategy seems to be "offer conservatives nothing, commit to nothing, don't let voters have anything to hold you accountable on. This is not the strategy of a party that has core values that they truly believe in.
BI = BS
Mark is full of Leibovich! With no names they don’t exist!
I know she can’t run as an independent or run a write-in campaign, presuming she loses her GOP primary.
Can she run if nominated by the Democrats?
There are scores of Rinos just waiting for the first scent of Trump's blood in the Jan6 waters.
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