Posted on 02/07/2022 6:45:51 PM PST by cotton1706
I’d give her a one percent chance of being reelected if she takes Frank’s advice.
Versus a zero percent chance of being reelected if she follows through on running in the GOP primary. So I guess his logic is sound.
To be clear, he’s not recommending that she become a Democrat. Cheney wouldn’t do that since her policy preferences are almost totally misaligned with the other party. She’s anti-coup and pro-gay-marriage (belatedly) and that’s about where the common ground ends. What Frank wants is for Cheney to retain her conservative Republican identity but to bypass the primary by declaring herself nominally an independent. And then he wants the Democratic Party in Wyoming to field no candidate in the general election since any nominee would be destined to be crushed anyway. Under those circumstances, the state’s small Democratic minority would gravitate towards Cheney. Could she get to 51 percent against Trump-backed Harriet Hageman with unanimous Democratic support plus a rump faction of anti-Trump and/or centrist Republicans?
Uh, probably not, no. Cheney happens to represent the most pro-Trump state in America as measured by his margin of victory in 2020. Even if she took the same 27 percent of the electorate that Joe Biden got there, she’d still need a third of the Republican vote to put her over the top. George W. Bush and Mitt Romney and of course Dick Cheney and other leaders of the pre-Trump Republican establishment will try to get her that third by hitting the trail for her, but they’re all but guaranteed to fail.
Although a boy can dream.
What Frank’s really after here, I think, isn’t so much a Cheney victory, which he knows is out of reach.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
What Frank wants is for Cheney to retain her conservative Republican identity
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That artificial facade evaporated already.
VDH gives her zero chance of success.
and there it is as predicted.
just like murky did to the great Joe Miller.
LOL, so the Rats now love the Cheneys.
Her fate seems 50/50 to me. It’s an open primary so she’ll get Dems and the weak and stupid Trump hating wing of the GOP base will be voting for her. That might be just enough to carry the day. We shall see. Time and again we’ve seen the GOP establishment get what they want in primaries. I sincerely hope that is not the case here.
I’m looking forward to the primary season more so than the actual midterms. I want to see the RINOs trounced in the primaries.
bawney should suck a root.
in jail!
wait...did he actually say “Wyoming democrats”?.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....
Is Barney Frank still a homo as well as being a life long POS?
It’s amazing anyone gives this fruit cake any forum to spout as crap
Back under your Rock, Barney Frank. Your days of being a Kingmaker are long over.
What, Barny Fag is still alive?!?
The only way to stop the GOPe from orchestrating the nomination for her is to go directly after THEM, even before HER.
They are almost all state legislators. Trump should make clear to them that he will have their legislative district vote Democrat and remove them if they dare to try to interfere with the primary process.
They will all cower away. None of them is going to bad mouth Trump when they know what happens next.
Cheney persuaded herself that the party outside Washington was filled with Trump hatred like the party inside Washington. They are still shocked. And horrified at how their careers will now end.
Why not just officially become a Democrat?
Take off the sheepskin and reveal the true wolf.
Sure, Barney.
Democrats are going to vote for Darth Vader’s Daughter.
I hope she gives it a a go.
Shut up and bite your pillow, Bawney.
Sen. Barrasso is no prize.
That should make the voters run out to support lez - a perverted libtard fag telling them how to vote 🤪
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