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Liz Cheney open to political run
Washington Times ^

Posted on 07/13/2009 8:00:52 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Liz Cheney open to political run

Joseph Weber (Contact)

The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that running for political office is on her horizon.

"It's something I very well may do," said Elizabeth "Liz" Cheney, a lawyer and State Department appointee who has worked on two Republican presidential campaigns.

Ms. Cheney, 44, has emerged as one of the strongest defenders of the effectiveness and legality of Bush-Cheney policies on enhanced interrogation methods. More recently, she and her father have become two of the most outspoken critics of President Obama's position on terrorism and other national security issues, which has led Republicans to consider her a strong candidate for national political office.

Ms. Cheney told The Washington Times America's Morning News that recent new reports that her father ordered the CIA to hide information from Congress and that a government probe could follow appears like political cover for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats who have accused agency Director Leon Panetta of lying.

"It gets more and more appalling everyday," she said. "I think they're very worried about Speaker Pelosi."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cheney; lizcheney; va2010
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To: Sub-Driver

Anyone else notice how the presspukes fawn over Meagan McCain and ignore Liz Cheney? Gee...I wonder why that could be.


21 posted on 07/13/2009 8:22:02 AM PDT by wny
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To: Sub-Driver

is she the lesbian?


22 posted on 07/13/2009 8:24:26 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: ConservativeDude

She could focus on a woman’s right to have 4 or 5 kids and a career at the same time—which she has done. “

I guess that would answer my question. The “other” one is the lesbian....


23 posted on 07/13/2009 8:25:31 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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Liz Cheney will have the support of this Conservative family.

2010 time to clean house.

24 posted on 07/13/2009 8:27:09 AM PDT by haircutter
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To: Sub-Driver

I loved how her father easily dismantled his counterparts in the 2000 and 2004 “debates”...I could see her doing the same thing.


25 posted on 07/13/2009 8:27:39 AM PDT by opus86
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To: ConservativeDude

‘Is she the lesbian?’

Is that important to you? do you not think there are gays and lesbians in Congress already?


26 posted on 07/13/2009 8:30:18 AM PDT by haircutter
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To: Sub-Driver
The media have already "Darth Vader'd" her dad, they hate him so much (must mean he's a very effective conservative politician - of course, he would be revered even more than the zero if he was liberal!).

Liz needs to make herself very familiar to the American public before the media can spin their own view of her in an attempt to ruin her politically - as you know they will do! They'll start with her name, which the media have already done their best to turn to poison.

Conservatives need more people like her (not just women - but it helps). On the other hand, a two-women ticket (Palin/Cheney) is just a little too "new" for most people to accept. Liberals would go for it, if it were two liberal women. For now, face it, there's gotta' be a man somewhere on the ticket, or too many people will think it's some kind of novelty or a political stunt (you know, like John Kerry running for President . . .Oooops! He did . . my bad!).

27 posted on 07/13/2009 8:33:39 AM PDT by jeffc (They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
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To: haircutter

Damn right it’s important.

I wouldn’t trust a fag man or a lesbian with advancing any aspect of the conservative agenda, if given the choice.

As far as I know, Larry Craig is the only out member of Congress on the GOP side.

And that’s one too many.


28 posted on 07/13/2009 8:36:05 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: ConservativeDude

Liz Cheney is married to Philip Perry, the former General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security


29 posted on 07/13/2009 8:41:30 AM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Sub-Driver

I don’t know all her positions, but from what I know at this moment I would heartily support her and would hope she would run and run hard!


30 posted on 07/13/2009 8:42:23 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: Sub-Driver

So what’s open in Virginia? I believe that’s where she lives.


31 posted on 07/13/2009 8:46:23 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: ottbmare

What Congressional district is she in?

I’d sign up to work on a statewide campaign for her. Maybe she could run for Webb’s senate seat in 2012. I am not even convinced he will run again.


32 posted on 07/13/2009 8:46:45 AM PDT by freespirited (Money doesn't buy happiness but will pay a research staff to study the problem.)
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To: SueRae

“Cheney/Palin or Palin/Cheney, preferably in 2012”

Boy would that cause some democrat bowels to move.........


33 posted on 07/13/2009 8:47:48 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug (s)
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To: jeffc

And too far outside the traditional ‘experience’ package. I’m fine with her running for Congress in 2010 and having Palin name her SoS in 2013, however.


34 posted on 07/13/2009 8:50:06 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Non-Sequitur

I’d like to see her win Webb’s senate seat in a few years!


35 posted on 07/13/2009 8:52:18 AM PDT by twigs
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To: ConservativeMan55

Not electable...


36 posted on 07/13/2009 9:11:03 AM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Sub-Driver

That would be awesome!


37 posted on 07/13/2009 9:16:38 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Sub-Driver

I love it! Run, Liz, Run!


38 posted on 07/13/2009 9:17:51 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ConservativeDude

No.


39 posted on 07/13/2009 9:19:38 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ConservativeDude

From Wiki: Liz Cheney is the elder of two daughters of former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Second Lady Lynne Cheney; her younger sister is Mary Cheney. Cheney graduated from McLean High School in 1984. She received her bachelor’s degree from Colorado College where she wrote her senior thesis, “The Evolution of Presidential War Powers,” in 1988.[1] She received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1996, having also taken courses in Middle Eastern history at the Oriental Institute.[2]

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.


40 posted on 07/13/2009 9:21:56 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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