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Nevilledog

(51,031 posts)
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 05:51 PM Mar 2022

Liz Cheney: This is the Putin wing of the GOP.



Tweet text:

Liz Cheney
@Liz_Cheney
Douglas MacGregor, nominated by Trump as ambassador to Germany; appointed by Trump as sr advisor to the Secretary of Defense, says Russian forces have been “too gentle” and “I don’t see anything heroic” about Zelensky.

This is the Putin wing of the GOP.


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2:42 PM · Mar 5, 2022
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Ocelot II

(115,615 posts)
1. What a horrible person.
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 05:53 PM
Mar 2022

I wish I believed in Hell; I'd add him to my growing list of people who should end up frying there.

JHB

(37,157 posts)
3. Don't leave out Stuart Varney in that category.
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 05:55 PM
Mar 2022

They wouldn't have air time without media figures like him.

LisaM

(27,794 posts)
7. I have to admire her steadfastness.
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 05:59 PM
Mar 2022

I, like everyone here, don't care for most of her politics. But she is honest and she's going to come through this better than most of her cohorts. I like that she won't back down.

crickets

(25,952 posts)
12. Absolutely. She's willing to speak up, forcefully.
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 10:31 PM
Mar 2022

I'm not looking forward to the day when she aims at the Democratic Party again, but for now, almost everything she says and does is "country first" and spot on. It is admirable.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
10. It may be reasonable to call MacGregor a neo-Nazi
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 06:11 PM
Mar 2022
Several Jewish advocacy groups came out against Macgregor's ambassador nomination after it came to light that he dismissed German remembrance of the Holocaust and downplayed the country's Nazi history.

KFile reviewed additional comments from Macgregor in which he said that US involvement in World War II was a "disaster," and incorrectly said there was no desire in the US to go to war with Nazi Germany. In 2012, he claimed there was evidence that conflict with Japan was engineered to end the Great Depression.

"People were not terribly happy about having to fight the second [war]. There was certainly no support for fighting the Germans during the Second World War. There was obviously for fighting the Japanese because Japan made the serious mistake of attacking us, but there was, there was great reluctance to be involved in these wars," Macgregor said.

"And again, as you know, some would argue -- and there's substantial evidence for it -- that the only way to extricate ourselves from the terrible depression was to bring on this conflict with Japan, which was made inevitable when we embargoed them," he added. "That may well have been the case"

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/13/politics/kfile-douglas-macgregor-israel-lobby/index.html

John Bolton called him an anti-Semite.

DFW

(54,302 posts)
14. There IS no other wing of the Republican Party
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 10:39 PM
Mar 2022

Liz Cheney isn‘t going to turn it around by herself, either. That bus already has three wheels over the cliff.

mysteryowl

(7,363 posts)
15. His "Humanitarian Medal" should be taken from him
Sun Mar 6, 2022, 07:26 AM
Mar 2022

I looked him up on Wiki and noticed his list of medals from being a Colonel in the Army.
So his "Humanitarian Medal" is a sham!

JHB

(37,157 posts)
16. Over 70% isn't merely a "wing"
Sun Mar 6, 2022, 07:48 AM
Mar 2022

It's the minority that occasionally don't follow the Party Line that are the "wing". And "wingtip" would be more accurate.

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