Fox News host Laura Ingraham blasted former Vice President Dick Cheney Thursday after he visited Capitol Hill for the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“The dinosaurs of the Pelosi-Schumer age are about to go extinct,” Ingraham said. “They know their political con game is coming to an end in November, and they’re so petrified that Trump or someone with similar views will win the presidency in 2024 that they’re even willing to team up with an old nemesis [Dick Cheney].”
The Fox host then presented a collection of clips showing Democrats rip the former vice president throughout the years.
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She referred to Cheney as Darth Vader and said he represented the “mastodons of the Bush age.”
Ingraham conceded that she “always liked Dick Cheney,” but she appeared visibly irked by the former vice president’s critique of the contemporary GOP.
“I’m deeply disappointed we don’t have better leadership in the Republican Party to restore the Constitution,” Cheney said, describing his party. “[It’s] not a leadership that resembles any of the folks that I knew when I was here for 10 years.”
Ingraham said that while she had always defended Cheney when people such as Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized him, the condition he and former President George W. Bush left the GOP in 2008 hampered his ability to discuss leadership.
She noted how the two created an environment that cost Republicans the House, the Senate, and the White House.
“All the latter-day reinvention won’t change the fact that the Bush-Cheney policies proved thoroughly unpopular,” Ingraham said.
The Fox host argued that the GOP was now more diverse, larger, and more blue-collar since Cheney left office and that it was “funny” that he wanted to decry its leadership.
The “dinosaurs” of the Cheney era “really care more about promoting democracy abroad than preserving it at home,” Ingraham said.
“They’re the ones who don’t really trust democracy because they know that when the people get their way, it means things like border enforcement, ending unlimited immigration, keeping politics out of schools, and protecting women’s sports. They simply can’t risk another repeat of 2016,” she said.
The actions of the former vice president and his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, were all part of an act to save their “dying species,” according to Ingraham.
“Yet none of it is going to distract from their own failures on inflation, COVID, the border, these wars, Afghanistan. And the GOP is never, ever going back to the Bush-Cheney playbook,” she said.
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“No, thank you. To preserve democracy, you actually have to trust your people. But they don’t. And they’re ruthless.”
