Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming has become a pariah within the Republican party for her opposition to former President Donald Trump, despite voting in line with his agenda more than 90 percent of the time.
After the former President's lies incited a deadly failed insurrection, Cheney announced in a scathing statement that she would vote to impeach him. In the months since, Cheney is one of two Republicans who joined Democrats on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riots.
As a result, she's been censured by her state's Republican party and removed from her position as GOP conference chair.
The pushback doesn't seem to be fazing the Congresswoman, judging by a recent tweet directed at Trump himself.
I like Republican presidents who win re-election.pic.twitter.com/ifGDEuA9Jx— Liz Cheney (@Liz Cheney) 1632661720
Cheney shared a picture of Republican former President George W. Bush, with the caption "I like Presidents who win re-election," an allusion to Trump's comments about the late Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, who famously spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Trump said of McCain on the 2016 campaign trail:
"He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
Trump was the first incumbent President to lose reelection since W. Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, lost in 1993.
The tweet generated a wave of reactions online.
Shade on a Sunday is gangsta. #andimhereforithttps://twitter.com/liz_cheney/status/1442113896366575617\u00a0\u2026— Jonathan Capehart (@Jonathan Capehart) 1632689630
BURN https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1442113896366575617\u00a0\u2026— AKG\ud83e\udd9c (@AKG\ud83e\udd9c) 1632664789
I think some Florida voters from 2000 might take issue with your use of \u201cre-election\u201d to describe Bush.https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1442113896366575617\u00a0\u2026— Pitt The Blogger (@Pitt The Blogger) 1632674266
Ha! I get she\u2019s a conservative Republican and not a \u201cfriend\u201d, but she certainly has values and ethics that are in line with our democracy. \n\n#CheneyThrowsShade https://twitter.com/liz_cheney/status/1442113896366575617\u00a0\u2026— Stephanie Turner (@Stephanie Turner) 1632692611
But even critics of Trump criticized Cheney for praising Bush, given the role his administration—and Cheney's own father—played in thrusting the nation into decades of war.
You also like Republican Presidents who\u2019s lies cost us 7,000 dead Americans in wars based on lies.https://twitter.com/liz_cheney/status/1442113896366575617\u00a0\u2026— Joe Kent for WA-3 (@Joe Kent for WA-3) 1632665543
I like Presidents who win re-election without lying, manufacturing evidence of WMD\u00b4s and let the bad guy get awayhttps://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1442113896366575617\u00a0\u2026— Biden_Squadron (@Biden_Squadron) 1632677823
You know your party is lost when favoring a war criminal over an insurrectionist is your example moral certitude and sound judgement.https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1442113896366575617\u00a0\u2026— Prescott Indivisible (@Prescott Indivisible) 1632679861
I like republican presidents who don't destabilize the middle east.https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1442113896366575617\u00a0\u2026— Amjed (@Amjed) 1632668941
I like Republican presidents who don\u2019t send a generation of Americans to die in wars based on lieshttps://twitter.com/liz_cheney/status/1442113896366575617\u00a0\u2026— Greg Price (@Greg Price) 1632686067
Cheney's plummeting popularity in the party signals an uphill battle for reelection in 2022.
