She may as well take credit for the historic ouster of Speaker McCarthy from the House of Representatives. She will be known as one of the eight Republicans who used personal grudges against McCarthy over the desire of a majority of Republicans to keep McCarthy in that position. She hopes to put a positive spin on that move.

Mace had a beef with McCarthy over what she said was his lack of fulfilling a commitment to her that he would advance her work toward ‘women’s issues.’ She was the only woman in the group of eight who voted with all House Democrats to oust McCarthy. One area that Mace is very vocal about is her desire for Republicans to take a more moderate tone and position on abortion. She was angry that abortion policy found its way into the NDAA and of Senator Tuberville’s hold on military promotions and transfers, among other things, until the Senate holds a vote on Secretary Austin’s policy that allows paid leave and travel expenses for military women to get an abortion.

Mace and Nikki Haley, also a South Carolina woman, both think that Republicans need to be less strident about their views as pro-life Americans in order to encourage more women to vote Republican.

Nancy Mace wants to be known as a maverick. She wants to be clear that she supports the Republican Party until she doesn’t. She said she isn’t afraid to call Republicans out and proved it with her vote to oust McCarthy.

The South Carolina Republican described herself as a “maverick” and said she supports her party, but that when she disagrees she will “call them out,” while speaking on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Monday.

“I would like to think of myself more so as a ‘maverick,’ right? So when I’m with my party I’ll support them, I’ll vote with them, and then I call them out when I disagree and sometimes it’s when I vehemently disagree,” Mace said. “I just booted out the old speaker and got a new speaker in, because I felt like the former speaker wasn’t the right leader for our country.”

When host Charlamagne Tha God asked Mace if the GOP has “got it out for you now,” Mace said they do and touted new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as someone who is “not bought and paid for.”

“They are coming after me. I got one of the insiders — one of the establishment insiders — booted out of the speaker’s office and got someone who is not bought and paid for by Washington,” Mace said.

Mace, like the others in the group of eight, used their actions to fundraise and make themselves available to do interviews. It was a profile-raising effort. Mace continues to do random moves to garner attention. She wants to play victim over the criticism she receives but she doesn’t want to claim victimhood, or something. Take, for instance when she recently showed up for work in a white t-shirt with large red A on it. She said it was meant to symbolize how she’d been “demonized” for her vote to oust McCarthy. Mostly it was meant to get attention. It did and now she claims she is surprised about that. Really?

“I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week that I just had last week, being a woman up here and being demonized for my vote, and for my voice,” she told reporters at the time.

But when Insider asked her about the apparent stunt the following week as part of a story about the GOP’s relationship with the attention economy, she said her constituents loved it.

“I went home this weekend, every person loved it. Loved it,” she said. “I had the greatest homecoming welcome that I’ve had, I think ever, in my life.”
But she also claimed that she didn’t intend to garner so much attention.

“I’m actually surprised it got the amount of attention it did,” she said, later adding that “it got way more than it should have.”

Her gender did not have anything to do with why she is criticized for being a member of the gang of eight. The others are MAGA Republicans. She joined with them when usually she is critical of them. Was she being a maverick? Looks like more of a fundraising move.

She does seem okay with the new speaker.

“He’s a guy that I do believe will be honest and tell the truth. Democrats and Republicans didn’t trust the last guy, and at least we know where the chess pieces will be on the board and what sandbox we are playing in and we can figure that out together,” Mace said. “Because we know what we’re gonna get out of Mike Johnson, it’s the truth and honesty and humility and someone we can trust.”

She helped usher in a speaker that the leftists have nothing but ugly things to say about. It’s not really so surprising but with all the horrible things going on in the world, you’d think people would be a little more careful with the words they use. Jen Psaki called him a Christian fundamentalist on her MSNBC show. Bill Maher compared him to the Maine shooter. Democrats have compared him to the mullahs in Iran and to the Taliban.

I’m looking forward to see what happens with Rep. Mike Johnson, who is from my hometown, as he settles in to being Speaker of the House.