No, Liz, just ... no

no, and your not me, either

Liz Chaney’s concession speech was a mentally ill cry for help. PJ Media’s got the story:

“But now the real work begins,” Cheney said, because apparently serving as the representative to Congress for all of Wyoming since 2017 wasn’t “real work” to her. And then her self-aggrandizement began.

In Cheney’s eyes, evidently, she and Abraham Lincoln have a lot in common because… they both lost elections.

“Abraham Lincoln was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election of all,” Cheney explained. “Lincoln ultimately prevailed, he saved our union, and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history.”

The Lincoln stuff wasn’t enough, however. She then went on to let us know that this embarrassing loss of hers reminds her of — I kid you not — Ulysses Grant.

Again invoking Civil War heroes, Cheney told the story of Union General Ulysses S. Grant turning his horse toward Richmond and the South rather than “turning back toward Washington and safety” in 1864 in another attempt to paint herself as a savior of the country. “Freedom must not, cannot, and will not die here,” she promised without any details about how she would ensure freedom’s continuation after losing on Tuesday.

If you get past the mainstream media’s fixation on the Trump angle here, it seems that Cheney’s massive unpopularity among her constituents was due mostly to her absence from the state and her failure to fight for the things Wyoming ranchers care about, like federal encroachment on their land and EPA regulations that were bankrupting them. Liz spent almost all her time in Washington, visiting Wyoming only on rare occasions, and worked on advancing her political career, rather than protecting her voters.

Either way, as another observer said of Chaney’s presidential ambitions, “Well, a cow can look at the palace …”