Posted on 05/04/2021 12:13:54 PM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is coming to the defense of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) amid a high-profile feud with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that is sparking fresh questions about her future in GOP leadership.
"Every person of conscience draws a line beyond which they will not go: Liz Cheney refuses to lie," Romney tweeted on Tuesday about the No. 3 House Republican.
"As one of my Republican Senate colleagues said to me following my impeachment vote: 'I wouldn’t want to be a member of a group that punished someone for following their conscience,'" he added.
Cheney is coming under new, intense scrutiny over her recent criticism of fellow Republicans. That includes responding to a statement from former President Trump earlier this week, where Cheney said that claiming the his repeated claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is the "big lie."
Cheney is one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump earlier this year after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, where a pro-Trump mob breached the building.
She and McCarthy are taking fundamentally different approaches to both the direction of the party and how to handle the former president. Cheney is not shying away from calling out Trump's false election claims, while McCarthy is actively trying to court Trump's favor with his eye on 2022 and winning the speaker's gavel.
After days of increasingly public drama, McCarthy told "Fox & Friends" that he had "heard from members concerned about her ability to carry out the job as conference chair" — remarks widely viewed as signaling he won't be coming to Cheney's defense in another attempt to oust her from the No. 3.
He was also overheard on a hot mic saying he "had it" with Cheney and had "lost confidence" in the Wyoming Republican and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Romney isn't the only GOP senator who has defended Cheney. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also defended her during a Sunday show interview over the weekend.
Both Romney and Collins voted to convict Trump at the end of his second impeachment trial earlier this year.
Romney, the party's 2012 presidential nominee, has been one of the few Senate Republicans most willing to criticize Trump. He was the only Republican to vote to convict on one of the articles of impeachment during Trump's Senate trial in 2020.
As if anyone believes either one of those demi-DemocRATs.
Romney and Ryan are coming to her aid. Loser Convention?
LOL! He did?? LOL
Mitt isn’t too stupid to recognize the election fraud, he’s too corrupt to acknowledge it.
They both make me sick!
She refuses to lie? Already lied enough? Or, can’t tell the difference between a lie, and the truth? I vote for the later.
Otherwise, she is a liar. And liars lie.
The problem Larry is that Cheney is in leadership and keeps taking shots at Trump.
She has to resign soon surely....
NOT ONE DIME FOR THE PARTY!!!
Mitt running scared of the GOP leader, hoping he will be eaten last.
And yet, they voted to punish (impeach) Trump for following his conscience.
If you disagree with him from the right you are a liar and a scoundrel.
If you disagree with him from the left, it is just a difference of opinion and you are a good person.
I'm starting to think they're space aliens.
Romney and Cheney and a few more must be on the DemoCommieNazi/ Soroznazi payroll
romney’s entire universe is a lie he lives by.
lizzie’s seen all her life how lying is the way of life in DC. It works for the liars, miraculously turning low-level civic-minded local leaders into globe-trotting oligarchs. That is her milieu-of-life and Trump had the gall to expose it and partially break it up. So she hates him.
God will judge (I wish I knew WHEN, bit it’s not my call).
What she and Mittens both refuse to do, is represent their constituents.
They both refuse to recognize the truth...
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