"You don't have to believe it. You just have to say it."


That is the Republican Party today as well as "right-to-life" operatives. The quote is from a Republican House member from Michigan who was defeated by another Republican in the primary, one probably saying the 2020 election was stolen and abortion is the murder of a human being. 

It's a mystery to me why some Republicans think telling a lie most people know is a lie will make voters choose them. Certainly conventional wisdom among leaders, candidates and the majority of Republican primary voters is that the smart thing to do is keep on lying. My theory is eventually it will extract a price bigger than they expect to pay.

Some martyrs in the party are running on the truth and being defeated. Majorities of Republican primary voters prefer candidates who lie over those who tell the truth. Liz Cheney lost.

Liz has simply told to much truth to survive. Her sister is a lesbian and for some years they feuded in public about gay marriage. Famous father, Dick Cheney lamented their public spat and wished they would reconcile. Sure enough, they did. Liz no longer runs her opposition to gay marriage up the political flag. Some Republican primary voters must have decided the biggest sin in Christianity cannot be Arizona's Representative. Better to hang onto the myth the Bible declared gay marriage to be a sin. It did not. 

Hopefully the Republican Party will come to see "crime" does not pay. It will handle Trump's election fraud claim like the early Christians handled Jesus' claim the world would end in his lifetime. After years of making the claim of an end at any moment and losing members who ridiculed the eliminant end, promoters of the faith started to change the subject. It will end sometime was the replacement. 

Democrats have done some lying too. Nothing, however, matches the Republican full-throated endorsement of Trump's totally silly lie. How much Republicans will be spanked for lying remains to be seen.  


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