‘ELECTING IDIOTS’: Liz Cheney Spews Contempt For American Electorate While Mulling Presidential Run

Former Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) complained about the state of politics and the Republican party during her speech at an event at New York City’s 92nd Street Y. The event with her was billed as the People Who Inspire Us series and in their description promoting Cheney they cited her as the Republican who stood out by speaking “truth to power” about the January 6th riot. Cheney during the course of this event complained that “What we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots.”

She went further to say that “And so, I don’t look at it through the lens of, is this what I should do or what I shouldn’t do. I look at it through the lens of, how do we elect serious people? And I think electing serious people can’t be partisan.”

This interaction was also later played by and approvingly discussed by CNN.

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The commentary from Cheney, who was the Vice Chair of the infamous and illegitimately formed January 6th Committee that doctored evidence, on the simplicity of the electorate may be based on her own humiliating landslide defeat to her Republican challenger, Harriet Hageman, in the 2022 Wyoming Republican primary. Such great was her loss that even the Washington Post had to admit that it was a “historic margin of defeat.”

Still, Liz Cheney has professed an interest in a possible presidential run in 2024 even after such a debilitating political blow. “It’s something I’m thinking about, and I’ll make a decision in the coming months,” she told an NBC host back in August 2022. She vowed that she will “do whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.” Back in May of this year, she released a political ad attacking the former president (and current Republican frontrunner) in New Hampshire and tweeted that “Donald Trump has proven he is unfit for office. He is a risk America can never take again.”

Representative Hageman (R-WY) responded to this ad by observing that “[t]here is one person who Republican voters wish would go away, and it’s not Donald Trump. It’s Liz Cheney. In Wyoming in 2022, we rejected the idea that a woman from Virginia could tell us what we should think, and the voters of New Hampshire will do that in 2024 as well.”

If Cheney is using herself as a personal example of what a serious person in office looked like then maybe what she meant was that serious politicians should not care what the people think and should baselessly go after popular political figures that connect with the party base. It is the old attitude expressed by President John Quincy Adams back in 1825 that “we are palsied by the will of our constituents.” Adams turned out to be a one-term president. Such contempt for the public is not typically rewarded with higher office.