Liz Cheney: A sacrificial lamb for the Dems, and the old-order GOP.

As routinely happens to politicians on the left, Congresswoman Cheney lost herself in the media.

While the days leading up to the Wyoming primary have dwindled, and Cheney's fate has come predictably to fruition, pundits from both sides have been floating the same, seemingly intriguing idea:

Liz Cheney will run for president.

While this notion is insultingly laughable, it's not accidental. Sadly, for the congresswoman, the target of this tripe is not the public.

The target is Cheney herself.

Cheney wakes up today, facing reality as a lame duck. Pumping her full of as much ego as possible will be critical to the January 6th Committee. What better way to inject ego than to sell her the faint hope of a presidential bid?

Just as they've pumped Cheney up enough to get her to sacrifice her entire career, the Dems and the media may well spend the next six months keeping her from realizing what everyone else knows:

Politicians don't get obliterated in state races and then become president. Sure, maybe if you’re Lincoln. Or maybe if your dad is Lincoln. But, no, it doesn't really happen.

Politicians don't run as a third-party candidate and become president. I've heard this repeatedly floated across many media outlets. Somehow, in each case, the notion was uttered with a straight face. These people are good at their jobs.

Speaking of a straight face: politicians, who can't bring themselves to crack a single smile in nearly two years, don't get elected president. Even Hillary can smile once in a while (not that she could be President... but I'm just saying.)

Politicians whose primary claim to fame is being America's supreme Karen... you guessed it: they don't get to be president.

There may be only a single person on earth who believes Cheney could become president. Again, it's Cheney herself.

For politicians, there are plenty of noble swords to fall on if they want to leave a legacy. And while there is no shortage of politicians on the right who loath Trump, sacrificing their future for (or against) the former president, seems wildly feeble. So, why in the world would Cheney give up so much in the name of anti-Trumpism?

The answer is redemption.

To explain, we have to look back quite a few years...

Remember that time we just had to go to Iraq? Remember how we needed a good reason to go there? Remember how, decades later, Americans on both sides of the aisle largely despise the leadership that led our country to spend years pouring blood and money into the burn pits of the Iraqi occupation?

This leads us back to Dick Cheney.

The truth, which I'm sure Liz Cheney knows deep down in her heart, is that Trump, and daddy Dick, actually have a lot in common.

They both love power and money, and both will do almost anything to maximize those. They both take a "liberal" stance on executive power. They're both willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done.

Liz Cheney's hatred of Trump is palpable:

She believes Trump lies to the American people for his own gain, and she hates him for it. She believes Trump could have, and should have, acted to stop the capital riots, and she hates him for not stopping them. She believes Trump thinks he's above the law, and she hates him for believing that.

Are these not the same reasons conservatives have spent the last few decades trying to disown and forget the old-order GOP? Her father lied to the American people for his own gain. Her father didn't stop an invasion and occupation, which cost Americans dearly. To accomplish his purposes, her father operated as if he was above the law.

Ultimately, Liz Cheney's psychological projection isn't without benefits. It's just that not a single iota of that benefit goes to herself (or her constituents, or the American people).

Her father is not remotely dumb enough to think that Liz had a chance of winning the Wyoming primary. So why did he put out the video ad calling out Trump? Who was that for?

It's all for the benefit of his daughter, Liz. But, of course, I mean the duplicitous interpretation of "for the benefit of".

Just like the media put Cheney on a pedestal, realistically for their own gain, so did her dear old dad.

Is Liz Cheney sacrificing her career on so-called "principle" just a twisted manifestation of the sacrificial lamb? Perhaps. Or maybe it's just an ordinary case of codependence. Either way, the result is simple: Liz and Dick can sleep at night knowing: no matter how much Dick Cheney is hated, at least he's not as bad as Trump.

This gift of redemption could only be given to Dick Cheney by his own child repairing his namesake. Alas, his name could only be restored at the high cost of his daughter's entire future in politics.

In the end, Liz Cheney will make her final sacrifice to the Democratic Party and the media. The mileage they have gotten by glorifying her is immeasurable.

Simply put, Cheney had the right issues (thanks daddy!), she had the right pedigree (thanks daddy!), and she lacked just the right amount of character (thanks again, daddy!) to be the perfect veneer of fairness and principle that the January 6 Committee needed.

The left lauded Cheney's every contemptuous, if not grimacing, derision of President Trump. Now, the sacrificial lamb will be relegated, by the same left, to nothing more than a lost sheep. Clearly no chance to be president. What kind of administration could even consider her for a cabinet position? Maybe a spot on MSNBC or CNN? I can't imagine even people on the left want to hear more of her voice than they've already had to endure through weeks and weeks of live hearings.

When the Dems and the media are done with her, come January, she will be unceremoniously let out to the pasture of “political trailblazers”. And we all know what that means: stay tuned for the launch of Liz Cheney's new podcast.