I've been watching Liz Cheney's MSNBC book tour of late. She's been on Rachel Maddow, she's sat down with Ari Melber, FFS Nicolle Wallace came back from maternity leave for a day to interview her. In case you live under a boulder, Cheney has written a book called "I Was Completely Wrong to Vote With Preznit Carnage 98 Percent of the Time and To Vote For Him when I did, Sorry About That, America: A Memoir."
Sorry, I misspelled that. The actual title of the book is "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning." And, the fact is, many liberals/progressives/LGBTQ allies/regular Americans like myself are watching Liz Cheney's (my personal stylebook has to call her that on second and subsequent references because her father, DICK, was once vice president and a loutish war criminal) are kind of pumping our fist, I think, but not without some internal conflict. I mean, Rachel Maddow spent 30 minutes with a powerful and wisely-delivered disclaimer before her interview with Liz Cheney detailing how polar are her and Liz Cheney's views, and she somehow did so without mentioning that she, Rachel Maddow, is an out gay person, and that Liz Cheney has in the past opposed equality for gay people. Her point, though, was that this is where we're at. Liz Cheney is sitting at my table rather than sequestering herself at Fox "News" because they won't have her anymore, so Liz Cheney is promoting her book at the House that Keith Olbermann built.
I have to admit, I had qualms about reading Liz Cheney's new book, but there it is on my Kindle nonetheless, awaiting my eyes. I think her book is that important. I think her voice is that important, despite her 100 percent rating by the National "Right To Life" Committee, despite her endorsements from the NRA, despite her support for repealing the Affordable Care Act, despite her state support for building a wall at our southern border, despite everything she thinks and everything she does aside from standing up for our constitutionally limited representative democratic republic. I personally think that to save the country, the Republican Party needs to be saved and that the person who can do that and should do that is Dick Cheney's daughter, who happens to be chatting it up this week on your favorite cable news network that only covers the same two stories an hour.
But. She'll write a book. She'll go on TV. And she says she'll do anything, anything at all to stop Preznit Carnage from becoming Preznit again, anything anything at all. Anything but the only thing that might actually affect that outcome.
She won't endorse Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. for President.
On the subject of where she stands concretely, Liz Cheney kind of stuffs her bare foot into the slush. She won't rule out running third party (which would only strip votes from President Biden). She won't endorse, saying that she doesn't want to hurt any of those losers who debated on News News Mouse or whatever it's called tonight. And, in her interview with Ari Melber tonight, she was taking about how, in order to evade this pending catastrophe, all American citizens need to work across the aisle, put our differences aside for now, and lead.
How about you, dear?
You wrote a book. You're on television, dummy. Now's the time, here's the reality. Leap in with your glasses on and endorse Biden/Harris. Go on the campaign trail as every liberal's favorite Republican and speak against every fascist evil you espouse against in your book and on MSNBC's signature television programs. Let Thom Hartmann interview you and, why not, go on Howard Stern. You don't have to change your registration. But you are currently an American who is in a position to reach across the aisle with the biggest bang.
Get on Team Biden/Harris. Now. Stop dicking around.
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