Shine up that “Profile in Courage” award — Liz Cheney and her massive ego will be along soon to claim it.
But that’s about all Cheney will have.
Cheney thinks of herself as another Abraham Lincoln, which is a joke, and explains why her arrogance has left her without a job or a political future. She’s now just a lame duck with a faint quack.
The Wyoming congresswoman’s landslide loss at the polls on Tuesday was a repudiation of her single-minded pursuit of Donald Trump and of the Jan. 6 hearings which she is helping to lead.
It also shows what happens when you forget about your constituents and allow your national ambitions to take over.
Sound familiar, Elizabeth Warren?
Cheney ran against Trump rather than for her home state voters and is now paying the price.
And she still doesn’t get it.
“I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office, and I mean it,” she told a small gathering of supporters Tuesday night.
Oh, you really mean it this time, congresswoman?
In Cheney’s fantasy world, she will lead the Trump resistance after she leaves Congress, and make the ultimate comeback by defeating the former president in 2024.
Sure. And Bill Weld will be her vice president.
Cheney is no Lincoln, and has no chance of ever being elected president — whether she’s a Republican, Democrat or independent. She has no chance of putting together a broad-based coalition against Trump. You don’t survive a landslide loss in your home state and go on to lead a national crusade.
She ran a terrible campaign, allowing her father, Cryptkeeper Dick Cheney, to be her attack dog — as if Wyoming voters needed another reason to give her the heave-ho.
Cheney had no message except her hatred of Trump and his supporters. She barely campaigned, saying she couldn’t have a public schedule because of threats against her.
Here’s how deep her Trump derangement syndrome runs: In the last few days of the campaign, she spent money on Google ads in Trump’s home base of Bedminster, New Jersey, several thousand miles from where her actual constituents live.
She never really ran a serious re-election campaign, instead focusing more on her imaginary White House campaign and winning adulation from Democrats, despite the fact that she stands against everything Democrats are for, such as abortion rights, gun control and social programs.
Cheney once claimed Kamala Harris sounds like Karl Marx, but Democrats made her a hero anyway because of their obsession with indicting Trump.
Once she’s finished with her usefulness on the Jan. 6 committee, Dems will abandon her and she’ll be relegated to the dust bin of history.
In other has-been news, Cheney’s devastating defeat came on the same night that Sarah Palin’s political career was kept alive in Alaska, clinching a spot in the November final election. But then again, I’m pretty sure they let caribou vote there.
(Joe Battenfeld writes for the Boston Herald.)
