{"id":1709723,"date":"2022-10-25T06:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T10:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709723"},"modified":"2022-10-25T07:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:06:37","slug":"liz-cheneys-plan-to-divide-the-gop-has-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheneys-plan-to-divide-the-gop-has-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney\u2019s Plan to Divide the GOP Has Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliz-cheneys-plan-to-divide-the-gop-has-failed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709723&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-24-at-5.26.00-AM-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The widespread and coordinated plan to divide the Republican Party has failed, and it\u2019s a major reason why Democrat prospects for the 2022 midterms are so bad.<\/p>\n<p>Separating Republican officials from their growing coalition of voters and the issues they care about has been the Washington establishment\u2019s goal for several years now. The \u201cdivide and conquer\u201d plan is being run by the Democrat Party, its propaganda press, and former leaders of the Republican Party such as Liz Cheney, who see how the GOP\u2019s new composition and approach has threatened or destroyed their hold on power.<\/p>\n<p>The D.C. partnership has worked overtime to try to marginalize, demonize, and make toxic those Republicans who don\u2019t follow the establishment\u2019s rules for how supposedly good Republicans, like Mitt Romney, act. They have been running the Jan. 6 show trial and warning Republicans in office to oppose many of the nominees that Republican voters selected during the primary season. These Beltway denizens watched in horror in recent weeks as Republican leaders have done the opposite, descending on tight races throughout the country to help all Republican candidates, not just those viewed as non-threatening to the D.C. establishment. <\/p>\n<p>Sens. Tim Scott, Tom Cotton, and Ted Cruz went to Ohio to help J.D. Vance in his bid to be the next senator of Ohio. Sen. Rick Scott and a succession of Senate colleagues went to Georgia to help Herschel Walker. The worst thing for the anti-GOP effort was when Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin endorsed Kari Lake in her battle to become Arizona\u2019s next governor. Republican candidates aren\u2019t toxic. They\u2019re even enjoying the support of former Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard \u2014 a former Democrat congresswoman, former candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, and former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee \u2014 endorsed Lake, Republican Blake Masters in his Senate race against Mark Kelly in Arizona, and Republican Don Bolduc in his Senate race against Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<h2>Republicans Campaign for Republicans<\/h2>\n<p>It was too much for partisan Chuck Todd to take on Sunday, turning over a full third of his <a href=\"https:\/\/radaronline.com\/p\/chuck-todd-nbc-meet-press-fired-low-ratings-replacement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lackluster show<\/a> to Cheney, so they both could push Democrats\u2019 2022 campaign message that Republicans are a \u201cthreat to democracy.\u201d Todd\u2019s first question to Cheney was straight-up Democrat propaganda talking points. Or perhaps it\u2019s more accurate to call it Democrat propaganda word salad: \u201cI don\u2019t want to presume anything, but is your number one issue threats to democracy, as a voter?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>His second question \u2014 a defamatory statement, not a question \u2014 was that there are two \u201celection deniers\u201d on the Wyoming ballot. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/22\/the-election-denier-smear-is-the-dumbest-rhetorical-device-in-modern-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election denier<\/a>\u201d is the false and juvenile propaganda term the media and other Democrats use to describe Republicans who had problems with the 2020 election. Literally no one \u201cdenies\u201d that there are elections. While contesting and opposing election administration is an incredibly common practice, and while the 2020 election included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections\/dp\/168451259X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds of radical changes<\/a> to the manner and timing of voting, Democrats have tried to argue that any and all opposition to that election\u2019s administration \u2014 but only that election\u2019s administration \u2014 makes one an \u201celection denier\u201d and a \u201cthreat\u201d to \u201cdemocracy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, if for some reason you thought Cheney\u2019s concern about elections was in any way legitimate or principled, this week she once again showed it wasn\u2019t when she laughed uproariously about how Jamie Raskin, her colleague on the Jan. 6 show trial, wrote a book about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1582532792403243008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how her father had stolen an election<\/a>. She has not critiqued Raskin for his views nor suggested that they make him \u2014 or any of his many Democrat colleagues who have objected to Republican victories \u2014 unacceptable. She has not condemned the Democrats\u2019 years-long campaign and information operation to reject the legitimacy of the 2016 election, a campaign joined enthusiastically and to great effect by the entire Democrat Party and its corporate media.<\/p>\n<p>Todd described Republicans campaigning for Republican candidates as putting their \u201cparty over country,\u201d another utterly childish phrase used against Republicans who oppose Democrats\u2019 political goals. Democrats who campaign for Joe Biden and John Fetterman, despite their radical positions and mental struggles, are not described by the propaganda press as putting \u201cparty over country,\u201d for example. <\/p>\n<p>In any case, Youngkin dismissively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meet-press-october-23-2022-n1300113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">waved off Cheney\u2019s absurd demand<\/a> that he not campaign for fellow Republicans by saying, \u201cI believe that every state deserves a Republican governor and Arizona deserves another Republican governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheney said Youngkin and other Republicans campaigning for Republican candidates were making \u201creally indefensible decisions.\u201d She even endorsed Democrats, claiming without evidence that Republican candidates \u201care more dangerous right now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Media activists who seek Democrat victories <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saletan\/status\/1584269704922685441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cheered<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarrySabato\/status\/1584191105834586112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1584269443076456450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on<\/a>. Tens of millions of Republican voters \u2014 who do not want Democrats to keep control of the House and Senate \u2014 did not cheer her on or find her in any way compelling.<\/p>\n<h2>Kari Lake\u2019s Advice for Mitch McConnell<\/h2>\n<p>Jonathan Karl had Kari Lake on his show, where he aggressively pushed Democrat talking points. The first words from the supposedly grown man were, \u201cElection deniers in a battle to take over the GOP,\u201d as he highlighted Republicans who had lost primary elections by not taking concerns about elections seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you guys want to act like the Republican Party is fractured, it is not,\u201d Lake was pictured as saying. <\/p>\n<p>She was also asked about the attempt to divide Republicans over on Fox News, where I\u2019m a contributor. \u201cAre you getting the support that you would expect from the Republican Party?\u201d Maria Bartiromo asked Lake. \u201cI know that early in the season, Mitch McConnell said that it\u2019s 50-50 that Republicans take the Senate, and he said it\u2019s partly because of bad candidates. You\u2019ve been campaigning a lot with Blake Masters, who is running for Senate in Arizona. What are your thoughts on the Republican Party\u2019s support to your campaign and contenders?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Trump-endorsed candidates swept most of the primary races earlier this summer, McConnell had thrown a temper tantrum, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/19\/come-on-mitch-mcconnell-republicans-need-you-to-step-up-and-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticizing the choices Republican voters had made<\/a>. It was a perfect example of how \u201cdivide and conquer\u201d strategies have been helped along by Republicans themselves, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/other\/FavorabilityRatingsPoliticalLeaders.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">least popular politician in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lake\u2019s answer was noteworthy. \u201cI think Mitch McConnell needs to wake up and realize that the Republican Party is about we, the people. It\u2019s not about political elites like Mitch in D.C. He\u2019s got to start representing the people. And we\u2019re going to actually strengthen this party, Maria,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an amazing movement here in Arizona, and it\u2019s the people of Arizona stepping forward, realizing that they have to take their government back. And I think Mitch should actually embrace this. I am receiving support from the RNC, the Arizona GOP, and the Republican Governor\u2019s Association has stepped in to help out, running some ads that are helping me. And so I appreciate any help that I get. But the real support I\u2019m getting is from the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Real Reason Cheney\u2019s Going to War Against Republicans<\/h2>\n<p>On Sunday, Cheney pivoted her campaign against Republicans to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/20\/mccarthy-in-the-middle-how-the-last-young-gun-sought-to-rebuild-conservative-trust-as-pelosi-went-scorched-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy<\/a>, who is the strongest contender to become Republicans\u2019 speaker of the House. Prior to her removal from the Republican Party, Cheney had hoped to hold the position.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, McCarthy made the completely sensible comment that support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia could not be a \u201cblank check.\u201d That is literally true and would be true even if the United States hadn\u2019t already spent close to a whopping $80 billion on the effort, far outpacing the support of actual European countries on the European war. While all sane people recognize the financial resources the United States can spend on a different country\u2019s war are limited, Cheney completely lost her mind over the statement. She ranted that this view was \u201cisolationist,\u201d a policy of remaining apart from the political affairs of other countries. Again, this is after $80 billion has been spent, which is at least $80 billion more than an actual isolationist policy would have spent.<\/p>\n<p>She also \u2014 again \u2014 called the policy of not writing a \u201cblank check\u201d to another country \u201cdangerous,\u201d a sign that he would \u201cno longer stand for freedom,\u201d and she even went with the completely deranged left-wing talking point that this means he was \u201cpro-Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman sounded completely crazed and unhinged, as if she\u2019d completely lost the plot and needed psychological assistance. It is a reminder, though, that the only issue Cheney has ever cared about is forcing the Republican Party to practice a politically toxic and destabilizing interventionist foreign policy. <\/p>\n<p>Cheney will of course continue her war against the Republican Party that rejected her foreign policy, but even fewer people will support it after her string of failures in the last two years. Try as she might to tear it apart, the Republican Party is strong \u2014 and unified against divisive partisans like Cheney and her establishment friends.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is the Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist. She is Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College and a Fox News contributor. She is the co-author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Justice-Trial-Kavanaugh-Confirmation-Supreme\/dp\/1621579832\">Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court<\/a><\/em>. She is the author of &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections\/dp\/168451259X\/\">Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.<\/a><\/em>&#8221; Reach her at <b><a href=\"mailto:mzhemingway@thefederalist.com\">mzhemingway@thefederalist.com<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The widespread and coordinated plan to divide the Republican Party has failed, and it\u2019s a major reason why Democrat prospects for the 2022 midterms are so bad. 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