CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz Cheney says she will run against Wyoming’s senior US senator in next year’s Republican primary.
She announced her campaign in a statement Tuesday, and the news was confirmed by her campaign manager, Kara Hearn.
Liz Cheney is 46 and the elder of Dick Cheney’s two daughters.
She has been in the public eye in recent years as a Fox News political commentator. Last year, Cheney and her husband bought a home in the posh northwest Wyoming community of Jackson Hole.I'm noticing how the MSM is calling her Dick Cheney’s daughter everywhere. What could they possibly have in mind, that they are being so meticulous about her identity? Its not as if Liz Cheney doesn't have an established history of public service, of being in the public eye. Could it be that the MSM is afraid people are going to confuse Liz Cheney among the cadre of Cheney daughters in Cheyenne?
I love the Cheney Clan ... so maybe I shouldn't complain.
Specially now that Synova and Pogo are here.... Yay!
49 comments:
Good for her.
she's been making a name for herself on fox, now's the chance to cash in.
(and if another prominent Republican woman would also toss her fur cap in the ring...)
Lynn Cheney is one smart woman. I'd support that ticket with my cash.
Meade said...
Funny, if you go to her Wikipedia page, under personal life:
"Cheney is married to Philip Perry, the former General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security. She and Perry have five children: three daughters—Kate, Elizabeth, and Grace—and two sons, Philip and Richard. The elder four attend The Potomac School in Virginia."
And if you go to the Wikipedia page of her husband, Philip Perry, under personal life, it simply says: "They have five children."
If I were a Wyomingite and I were considering voting for Liz, one thing I'd like to know is: Are she and her husband finished raising their five children.
And you care about this why?
Meade, are you saying a woman can't work and raise children at the same time?
Maybe she'll face off with Slick Willie's wife after we get rid of Ann Dunham's son, the first White African American President.
Apparently Meade spent more time researching Ms Cheney than his wife spend researching Barack Obama.
"and if another prominent Republican woman would also toss her fur cap in the ring...)"
I think the correct term is "muff".
Shouldn't she be at home, homeschooling her kids?
@Sydney: It's a pet peeve of Meade's. I recall him once writing that Palin might make a fine candidate one day -- after her kids were grown.
Funny, but I don't recall him ever raising it as an issue against Obama.
Perhaps his wife disabused him of the notion.
Shouldn't she be at home taking direction and correction from her husband?
I love Liz Cheney, she seems to have a great mind and character, but she's a lawyer by trade, so she doesn't know shit about what makes the economy run, or what kills it. She is much better than the current occupant of the White House both on paper and in practice. If we have to continue the mistake of rule by lawyer, then she's as good as they get. Wait, she's a woman. No, no, no, that's just asking for trouble. Maybe the gay one then.
Meade's a conservative of the liberty-loving type. I can't see him supporting Obama with or without kids in the house.
She's taking away jobs that rightfully belong to us men.
"She's taking away jobs that rightfully belong to us men."
It would make more sense for the country if Obama would raise her kids, so she could do his job. Besides he already has the jeans for it, and he could teach the girls how to throw gender appropriate.
@freeman: I know. But he must have really chafed at Paul Ryan's candidacy for VP as well.
Personally, I think it's a ridiculous litmus test and I think people who have such litmus test are ridiculous.
If Hilldog is inevitable, the Republicans need to run a woman. Period.
bagoh20 said...
and if another prominent Republican woman would also toss her fur cap in the ring...)
I think the correct term is "muff".
I thought we were supposed to be classy and genteel here.
PS Hi, Roger. Glad you're here.
Sarah!
Are she and her husband finished raising their five children.
That's right!! Because a woman should stay home and raise those children and not have a job until they are all grown and graduated from college. There is no way for a woman to work and raise children at the same time......
Yeah. Tell that to the bank clerk, the waitress bringing you coffee, the law professor who raised her children as a single mother.
Blow it out your ass.
I think the correct term is "muff"..... I thought we were supposed to be classy and genteel here.
Well, if Peter/ironrailsironweights were here, he'd be glad she had a muff to throw in the ring!
For that matter of fact, the men should stay home too and raise the children. No one should do anything until the children are done being raised. How dare a man have a job and not be there 24/7 to raise the children and oversee his wife since she is already deemed incompetent and unable to multi-task. Someone should have told that to my grandmother who had 7 children and who owned and published a newspaper while her husband was a veterinarian for the US Government. Wah. What shitty grandparents I had.
It's for the cheeeldreeeen.
"Are she and her husband finished raising their five children.".
My mom did it while working 40 hours a week welding along side men, including my father, and I turned out normal.
OK, maybe that's not quite accurate, but I never beat up a gay asscracker.
Of course we had a butler, a maid, and secret service protection. That's what my dad told me. They were all top secret so we never actually saw them.
Teddy Roosevelt did a pretty awesome job as president and he had about 34 kids in the White House who according to the biographies spent the majority of their time parading pets through the Oval Office.
And there's always the classic wisecrack about how he could run the country or control Alice*, but not both at the same time.
(*His headstrong, beautiful, impetuous, witty eldest daughter.)
Emma Swan: An evil queen sent a bunch of fairy tale characters here?
Henry Mills: Yeah, and now they're trapped.
Emma Swan: Frozen in time? Stuck in Storybrooke, Maine? That's what you're going with?
Henry Mills: It's true.
Emma Swan: Then why doesn't everybody just leave?
Henry Mills: They can't. If they try, bad things happen. Our only hope lies with Rumplemskin. He knows where to go to get a happy ending.
(Once Upon a Time, 2011)
Republicans need to run a female candidate.
If Republicans were not the stupid party and were half as vicious as they allow themselves to be described by their opponents and also possessed one tenth the creativity I slough while showering, they would already be marketing Hillary Clinton garden gnomes.
He knows where to go to get a happy ending.
In pinch I'll just make my own.
Wait, what are we talking about again?
Happy ending.
There's a term that can never again mean what it had.
As to Cheney, well, you're never really done raising your kids, so that proviso seems a bit harsh.
I would prefer a non-lawyer, but I also prefer large bills, a Dove bar, and a working air conditioner, but I'm 0 fer 3 in them things, so I'll take her over the current model.
'Pinch' and 'happy ending' should not appear in the same sentence, methinks.
NTTAWWT.
Please do it, Meade. Just to prove me wrong.
Apparently Meade spent more time researching Ms Cheney than his wife spend researching Barack Obama.
Ouch.
Don't look at me, I have to read everything now.
just saying
'Pinch' and 'happy ending' should not appear in the same sentence, methinks.
You have your happy endings, and I have mine. Let's leave it at that.
Dick Cheney would be good for President, but I've lost track of whether he has an actual heart.
The publicity campaign would be bad if he doesn't and he'd lose with women.
The ultimate goal for a woman -- every woman -- is to go to college so she can marry a doctor or a lawyer or a business executive and raise his children.
After they're all grown up she'll have nothing to do so he buys her a flower shop or an antique store or something like that so she won't feel useless.
But these are modern times and it might be enough for her to police the comments on his blog and to report on the success of his Amazon Portal.
If the blog comment thing fails, then the fallback would be for him to send her out to patrol the internet in an attempt to exert his insidious influence over former friends.
Hey Meade - did you dig up that quote yet? Better yet, create it out of whole dirt? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Get your "wife" on it - once she sobers up. Ol' Wobbly probably has the shakes pretty good this time of morning.
I remember that now. Meade did bring that up about Obama, as I recall.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/09/3-questions-about-sarah-palin-obama.html
With all due respect--who cares what Meade said on some other blog some other time.
Liz Cheney will be an excellent candidate for the senate seat from Wyoming. She is very bright. She will attract campaign money. She'll also be a terrific senator. Imagine the amount of money and effort the Dems will pour into that race to see that she is defeated.
I thought time and whatever moves on. Live in the now, as the great Garth Algar advises.
Freeman Hunt ... good thread citation there. Revisiting I found the exchanges between Nina and Roger J vis a vis "feminism" to be entertaining, and fascinating. Thanks.
Pogo said...
'Pinch' and 'happy ending' should not appear in the same sentence, methinks.
NTTAWWT.
Unless you are Titus.
I don't read Meade often, so maybe I'm wrong; but I suspect he was referencing that 4 of the children were attending "The Potomac School in Virginia". Liz could be a great mom, but either the kids are raised and doing what they do, or they are now finishing school in the state Liz Cheney is claiming residency. Well supposedly.
Let's just remember that a previous
Senator of New York seemed to have been living either in DC or Arkansas before suddenly becoming a life long Yankee's fan.
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