Liz Cheney's Senate Bid

Daniel Larison of the American Conservative questions the logic of some Republicans primary challenges:

The trouble here isn’t that incumbents are facing primary challengers, which can be a good and necessary thing, but that they are frequently facing challenges that seem to serve no purpose. The Cheney challenge to Enzi [in Wyoming] is the absurd extreme of this phenomenon: someone with a lifetime ACU [American Conservative Union] rating of 92.7 has to head off a challenger whose sole reason for running is self-promotion. It is fairly harmless, but also completely useless. Challenging Alexander or Cochran might be more justifiable based on their voting records (their lifetime ACU ratings are 78 and 79 respectively), but even if successful they wouldn’t make it that much more likely that conservatives will be able to advance their agenda in Congress.

Larison makes the point that party money could be more practically spent in attempts to unseat Democrats, but I think it can be argued that she would be useful in a run for the presidency in a few years.  Straightforward in speech, nice looking, iconically blonde, and with five children to boot, she will be 54 in 2020. She has worked in government in foreign relations. But she has received criticism for only recently moving to Wyoming in 2012 before making her bid:

On July 16, 2013, Cheney announced that she would be running for the Senate in 2014 from the state of Wyoming as a Republican, challenging the incumbent Republican senator Mike Enzi.[30] The National Republican Senatorial Committee says the group plans to back Enzi, as is policy.[31] Cheney is expected to receive strong fundraising, but faces concerns about the fact she moved to Wyoming in fall 2012.[32] In the video announcing her candidacy, she noted that the Cheney family first came to Wyoming in 1852.[32] Her father served Wyoming in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 1989.[32]

She was also ticketed by a game warden for obtaining a Wyoming fishing license before she had completed one years' residency:

In August 2012, Cheney purchased a resident fishing license despite living in the state for only a few months. After a newspaper article in August 2013 pointed out that she should not have been eligible for a resident license, Cheney was ticketed by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.[34] Cheney released a statement, saying "On August 3, 2012, I spent the day on the Snake River with a group of wounded warriors and the Rivers of Recovery organization. ... When I went in to purchase a license, the clerk asked if I was a resident. I said yes because I was living in Wyoming. It was my mistake not to realize there was a 365-day requirement to hold a resident license. The clerk did not ask how long I had lived in Wyoming. August 3, 2012 was, unfortunately, the only day I had the opportunity to fish in Wyoming last year. When I realized that I had not fulfilled the residency requirement, I met with officials from Game and Fish in Jackson and I paid the requisite fine on August 14."[35] The Wyoming Game and Fish Department concluded its investigation after Cheney paid the fine. A department spokesperson said, "The investigation did not reveal any intent to provide false or misleading information."[36]

Hillary Clinton winning the presidency in '16 is a big If. I think it is highly likely, given that there may be a groundswell of women of all stripes to push her over the top, but there are few people so hated by so many as she and Bill are. If she fails in her bid, I can see Liz Cheney stepping in with the help of the nation's female vote, and I think the Republican party already has this gamed out.