Posted on 08/06/2022 11:10:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Vice President Dick Cheney dismissed his own record launching an overseas war based on junk intelligence when he claimed Thursday that former President Donald Trump is the worst threat to the republic since the Declaration of Independence was signed.
On Thursday, endangered Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, whom the state GOP no longer recognizes as a Republican, published a video of her father’s endorsement.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” said the former vice president under George W. Bush.
“He lost his election, and he lost big,” Dick Cheney added, despite Trump only losing the 2020 contest by less than 50,000 votes across three tipping-point states. Nevertheless, Cheney said, “I know it, he knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans know it.”
The 81-year-old longtime presidential adviser, whose Washington resume stretches from the Ford White House to both Bush administrations, appeared in the one-minute ad less than two weeks before Liz Cheney faces primary voters at the ballot box. The three-term incumbent is up against Trump-endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman, who, according to a July poll sponsored by the Casper-Star Tribune, is up by 22 points.
During the second Bush administration, Dick Cheney was a “chief architect” of the Iraq war, sending American troops into a conflict that would last decades without an exit strategy. The invasion was launched under the pretense that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) based on U.S. intelligence. The classified information cited by the White House to justify the war however, turned out to be one of the worst intelligence failures in modern American history, if not the worst failure.
The oldest living former vice president’s assertion that Trump is the greatest threat to the republic in its existence, meanwhile, glosses over the dozens of historical figures who surely did more harm. Was Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy who oversaw a four-year insurrection, less of a threat than Donald Trump? Was John Wilkes Booth, who shot President Abraham Lincoln, less of a threat? What about Benedict Arnold?
It’s unlikely that Dick Cheney’s video will save Liz’s House seat. According to an Axios poll in March, less than 2 in 5 GOP Wyoming voters reported a favorable opinion of former vice president. Nearly half, 48 percent, said they view Dick Cheney unfavorably.
Naturally, he is full of 💩
Dick McCheney is another John McCain. Total efin Manchurian rino.
Burn in Hell, you neocon warmongering SOB.
I was in high school from 1999-2003 and I defended this jerk along with Bush. In a way it helped me years later to develop my cynical view of all politicians.
I regret defending him and W also. I’m sure most of us on here wish they could take it back.
Amen. I remember during the 2000 campaign thinking that W's dad had made it his mission to demolish Reagan's legacy and that I had seen nothing in W to tell me he was actually any more conservative. I remember Rush Limbaugh telling us all that he knew W, had spoken to him personally and that 'in private he says things he can't say in public but believe me, he's very conservative.' That was the first time I was given the old W line about "gee, you know I can't really tell you why but you have to just trust me' line. I did vote for him but with big misgivings.
Than 9/11 happened and W seemed like a Harry Truman-esque figure, a small man put into a terrible situation and who rose to the challenge. Then he decided to invade Iraq, telling us in essence 'I know things I can't say, things that are terrible about Sadam and WMDs. You have to trust me, we need to do this'. Another one of those 'I cant tell you why, just trust me on this major world changing decisions' from W. I made a decision that he was either evil and lying to manipulate us into a war for no legit reason or he was telling the truth. Didn't think he was evil back then so I supported it. Plot twist: he was lying and hence was evil. Cheney too. Then his entire second term being devoted to giving the base the finger and trying to ram amnesty through over and over and over and over.
I regret ever supporting that SOB.
Cheney further proves that THE ESTABLISHMENT is as much a part of the Swamp as the Democrats. If not for MAGA, the Republican Party today would resemble the Democrats.
Yeah. Trump made all these cockroaches expose themselves for stomping.
Unfortunately before Trump all we had was Ron Paul pointing the uniparty out.
They made a mistake, they made it all about Trump
President Trump did the nation a great service in exposing the real enemies of America — infesting the Republican party.
After this putrid, vile and evil ad, Dick's approvals will be in the single digits amongst all but the most hardcore globalist warmongering RINOs. He's going to die with almost everyone rightfully hating him as a monster. He's earned it.
(I regret ever supporting)
Same here
Vice President Aaron Burr Jr. who killed a Alexander Hamilton in a duel and was tried for treason but was acquitted due to tainted evidence.
All hat, no cattle. A REAL cowboy has the Bull $#!t on the OUTSIDE of his boots.
Such a post would get you BANNED here in about 2011-2013.
The hail of rage that came out of freepers during that time when someone dared say these type things about Cheney and Bush was uniform and predictable.
It is why this board is a shadow of its former self.
I am happy to see that truth is tolerated on the right nowadays.
Thank you Donald Trump.
I would sure hope not. The ad alone, IMHO, will backfire. Cheney's high, wispy, angry old man voice sounds just like what he is - an angry old man, whose daughter needs to be put out to pasture.
In that ad, Dick Cheney looked EVIL and MENACING!!!! He looked like he would KILL you if you didn’t vote for his EVIL daughter!
The United States has the most corrupt, criminal people in charge.
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