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.
Mary Cheney, the younger sister of Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Senate candidate, sharply criticized her sister’s stance on same-sex marriage and urged her own Facebook friends to share the message.
Posting on Facebook on Friday evening, Mary Cheney, who is gay and married her longtime partner last year, wrote: “For the record, I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on the issue of marriage.”I agree with Liz Chaney. If the decision has to be made, it should be made by the people.
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?
Dick Cheney was Wyoming's lone congressman from 1979 to 1989, before becoming Defense secretary for George H.W. Bush and then Bush 43's vice president. The NYT story says Dick Cheney has been more visible in his home state since his daughter moved to Wyoming -- and that he and Enzi are fly-fishing buddies.This is welcomed news, as a relief valve from the Hillary Inevitability run away train.
