Dick Cheney came under fierce criticism from conservatives in his party for comments he made in Oct. 2000 on gay marriage during the vice presidential debate with Senator Joe Lieberman.  Bill Kristol and other wingers essentially freaked out.

Asked by the moderator of the debate whether gays should have all the constitutional rights enjoyed by other citizens, Mr. Cheney said that "people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into.  The Republican platform explicitly opposed gay marriage and George W. Bush, the candidate at the top of the Republican ticket, flatly opposed same sex marriage.

Asked afterward, Mr. Cheney brushed off his critics, saying "Bernie Shaw asked me a question and I answered it truthfully and accurately, my position has not changed."

In November 2013, during her failed run for the US Senate, Liz Cheney said she "believed in the traditional definition of marriage", even though her sister, Mary, was married to a woman. Liz was running as a more conservative alternative to Senator Mike Enzi (R..WY), who opposed gay marriage.

Shortly after, Heath Poe, Liz's sister-in-law, struck out: "Liz has been to our home, has spent time and shared holidays with our children, and when Mary and I got married in 2012, she didn't hesitate to tell us how happy she was for us."  "To have her now say she doesn't support our right to marry is offensive to say the least."

Her sister, Mary, followed up with "Liz, this isn't just an issue on which we disagree, you're just wrong, and on the wrong side of history."

Closed primaries create an artificial construct because only voters who've registered a party preference can only vote in their chosen party's primary, and the results don't necessarily reflect the actual views of the mainstream electorate and in fact, can serve to undermine them.

In Florida, for example, as the GOP lurched toward the far-right of the political spectrum, state voters via referendum restored the vote to convicted felons. The following year, the GOP-dominated state legislature then proceeded to thwart the will of the people by passing a bill which predicated a felon's right to vote on his / her ability to pay restitution.

Personally, I don't care for ranked-choice voting. We're not choosing a high school homecoming or prom court. We're supposedly trying to elect the one person to an office who we think can best do the job. And ranked-choice voting can result in the election to office of a candidate who was the first choice of only a very decided minority of voters.

Consider, for example, the case of former Oakland, CA Mayor Jean Quan, who was elected to office in 2010 via ranked-choice voting. The top three finishers that year among a field of 10 candidates were Quan, Don Perata, and Rebecca Kaplan. In the initial tally on election night, Perata led Quan, 40,342 (33.7%) to 29,266 (24.5%) but because he did not garner a mandatory 50% + 1 majority of the first-place votes, the instant runoff kicked in.

The votes were then re-tallied by eliminating each candidate at the bottom, until one candidate obtained a majority. After nine rounds of candidate elimination, the last candidate to be eliminated was Kaplan, the third-place candidate.

Kaplan's votes were then allocated according to each voter's wishes to the remaining two candidates, Perata and Quan. The Alameda County Registrar then declared Quan the winner after it was determined that she had garnered a majority of the 105,769 valid "continuing" votes.

However, I would note here that there were actually 122,268 ballots cast in the 2010 mayoral election. The 16,499 voters who chose mayoral candidates from that field of 10 other than the top three saw their ballots effectively discarded by round nine in the instant runoff. And although they constituted 13% of the active electorate that year, because they had listed neither Quan nor Peralta in their ranked choices, they had absolutely no say in the final outcome.

Why is that important? Because by the tenth round of instant runoff, Jean Quan was declared the winner after it was determined that she had received with 51% of "continuing" votes (53,897) to Perata's 49% (51,872). That's a difference of only 2,025 votes.

Had there been an actual runoff election between Quan and Perata as the top two finishers, perhaps those 13% of Oakland voters whose 16,499 ballots did not factor in the 10th round outcome could have possibly swung it the other way, had they been given an opportunity to vote again in a separate election. Instead, even though they had voted, their votes ultimately did not count at all in the final official tally.

But fighting with people like her about her ideas is what the country is supposed to be.

That's not what it now is.

Personally I will do everything I can outside of voting for her to help her rout the the fascists.

For one thing I'm not seeing anyone else on the right willing or able to take on the fascists.
Or even care that much about them.  
She is and she does.

If Adam Kinzinger develops a national following he will have my support.

I think what she is doing, she just a PAC called The Great Task, is important.
As important as anything in my lifetime.
I don't have to support Liz Cheney to support her anti fascist cause.