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March 29, 2024

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Well, apparently, it’s official. Soon-to-be former Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney has proclaimed that matters of principle matter less to her than a person’s personality. Cheney has publicly stated that if former President Donald Trump is once again the Republican nominee for president in 2024, she will leave the Republican Party. Her dislike of the former chief executive apparently ‘trumps’ her stand on important issues facing America.

Cheney had long been considered a staunch conservative and a steadfast member of the Republican caucus. She supported smaller government, fiscal responsibility, a strong national defense, was tough on crime, and was pro-life. Interestingly, pretty much the very same positions held by former President Donald Trump, the man she despises so much that she is willing to walk away from the party that hopes to return to those policies in November, and carrying over into 2024.

Maybe it’s time for Liz to do a little self-reflection. Our country is at a tipping point; if Democrats maintain control of a single one of the three branches of our government in 2024, everything Cheney supposedly stands for will come to a screeching halt whether Trump runs for president or not. If she truly still considers herself a conservative Republican, she might want to reconsider whether personality is more important to her than Republican principles.

Face it; President Trump can be abrasive, even antagonistic at times, towards anyone who he feels is attacking him personally. It’s a trait that can be maddening to a certain extent. Sometimes it’s better to just ignore something than draw attention to it by responding. But Trump isn’t a typical politician. He doesn’t believe in doing things the way they’ve been done for decades. How’s the old saying go, “it’s insanity to keep doing things the same way and expecting a different result”? Trump upset a few career politicians’ apple carts when he came into Washington like a tornado, not just a breath of fresh air.

Trump’s combativeness can also be something welcomed for a change when compared to former President George W. Bush’s seeming unwillingness to fight back and defend himself and his administration – including Liz’s own father – against the often vicious personal attacks that both he and his VP Dick Cheney had to endure.

President Trump didn’t just sit there and let Democrats and the news media beat him up. He went on offense, and unfortunately, often times made personal attacks in response. Sometimes just ignoring an attack against him might have been a better decision, but that wasn’t in President Trump’s nature. Actually, it was refreshing in some ways, and really about time a Republican fought back. Far too often, Republicans have tried to portray themselves as above the fray while Democrats got down and dirty, and Republicans have gotten beat up in the press. Or worse, shot up on a baseball diamond, which happened as a direct result of how Republicans are portrayed by Democrats and the news media.

It’s a fair statement to say that President Trump probably ticked me off at least once a day during his four years in office. I also wasn’t in favor of his big rally on January 6th; it was obvious to me ahead of time that it was going to be hijacked and end up being a disaster. I told anyone who would listen that it would end up getting out of hand and be used to discredit Trump and his supporters. It was, and it did.

But I loved just about everything President Trump was accomplishing, up until his administration’s efforts were disrupted when the COVID pandemic hit. Even then, I thought he did a hell of a job focusing America’s response to this Chinese biological attack against the West. President Trump wouldn’t tolerate bureaucratic B.S.; he expected results and drove people to produce.

So I chose to put aside any negative feelings I might have had regarding his abrasive and often combative personality because, policy-wise we were on the same page, and I liked what he was doing. Liz Cheney would do well to think about what matters more to her, personality, or what’s being accomplished for America. Even if it’s President Trump, that’s doing it.

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