Posted on 07/07/2013 7:46:55 AM PDT by don-o
Ms. Cheney’s ambitions reflect a greater tension within the Republican Party as a younger generation feels less reluctance to challenge incumbents in the party, especially if they are seen as too consensus-minded or insufficiently conservative.
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What has startled some people here is not just the fact that Ms. Cheney is seemingly trying to nudge Mr. Enzi into retirement, but that she appears to be doing so with a hand from her father.
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Ms. Cheney’s broader line of attack on Mr. Enzi, though, may be that he is too willing to work with Democrats and not vocal enough in pushing conservative causes. Ms. Cheney, a State Department official in the administration of President George W. Bush, is a pugnacious partisan and has called President Obama “the most radical man ever to occupy the Oval Office.”
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Them Hubble genes is hard to look at.
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Point out where I said Wyoming does want her to run?
Ms. Cheney’s broader line of attack on Mr. Enzi, though, may be that he is too willing to work with Democrats and not vocal enough in pushing conservative causes. Ms. Cheney, a State Department official in the administration of President George W. Bush, is a pugnacious partisan and has called President Obama “the most radical man ever to occupy the Oval Office.”IOW, it doesn't worry the G.O.P. one little bit -- PARTISAN MEDIA SHILLS PING.
My bad... time for ne Wallyworld readers. Now give us your inside Wyoming view on your claim they DO NOT want Liz Cheney.
There is a huge danger in giving these old-timers one last term. Look at McCain, Hatch...they’ll never face the voters again, so they feel free to stray from conservative principles.
I don’t trust any of the Cheneys, or most of the people associated with the Bushes, for that matter. They talk a good line, but other than being gung ho for military intervention everywhere in the world, exactly what are their conservative accomplishments?
Most of these hangers-on since Reagan have done their best to sabotage the conservative movement. We have to look at what they have done rather than what they’ve claimed to be.
You really need to read much more carefully. I claimed no knowledge of what Wyoming does or does not want. My comment was strictly about a common form of NYT's 'journalism' used to give the impression they have established some point after interviewing two or three people.
My guess is Liz will be a liberal on “social” issues like sodomy, and a conservative on defense and economic issues.
I would not describe Dick Cheney as a conservative, but more as a representative of the “Intelligence-Police-Military Complex”.
If there is *some* overlap with conservatism there, by conservatives realizing that there is *some* purpose to having 16 major intelligence agencies, over 100 federal police agencies, and an enormous military, it is rather coincidental.
But Dick Cheney is “of them, by them, and for them”. Not us.
Importantly, not everybody is, or should be, a “people person”. Cheney is not “a man of the people” in any way. But like an expert mechanic who fixes cars, he is not hired for his social skills.
The only reason he became Vice President was that system decided it needed a “Mandarin” in that office. Somebody who was expert at intelligence, police and military matters. That W. Bush had too much on his plate to make the major changes needed.
In truth, Liz Cheney has been bred to do these things as well, so running her for elective office is strange, because she should have been appointed as a bureaucrat. It may signal that the IPMC has tired of politicians too focused on the people, and not enough on the system.
Never confuse them with conservatives.
Liz Cheney any day of the week
There is no doubt about that!
The NY Slimes perceives her as a threat. Apparently she has good chance of winning.
Wasn’t Cruz born in Canada?
Ms. Cheney, 46, is showing up everywhere in the state, from chicken dinners to cattle growers’ meetings, sometimes with her parents in tow. She has made it clear that she wants to run for the Senate seat now held by Michael B. Enzi, a soft-spoken Republican and onetime fly-fishing partner of her father.
But Ms. Cheney’s move threatens to start a civil war within the state’s Republican establishment, despite the reverence many hold for her family.
Mr. Enzi, 69, says he is not ready to retire, and many Republicans say he has done nothing to deserve being turned out.
It would bring about “the destruction of the Republican Party of Wyoming if she decides to run and he runs, too,” Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from the state, said in an interview last week. “It’s a disaster — a divisive, ugly situation — and all it does is open the door for the Democrats for 20 years.”
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In an interview last week after a town hall-style meeting at the county fairgrounds here, a few feet from a plaque marking the site of Mr. Cheney’s first political speech, Mr. Enzi revealed that Ms. Cheney told him this year that she was thinking about challenging him in 2014.
“She called me and said that she’s looking at it,” he said.
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Unlike former Republican colleagues who were felled in recent elections because they lost touch with home or cast votes that angered Republicans, Mr. Enzi has a reliably conservative record and has not offered critics much fodder. And at his town meetings, even as constituents flashed anger at Washington and assorted powers “back East,” none showed any ill will toward him.
I’ll make a couple points. First, I’d take anything Alan Simpson says with a large grain of salt, and his warning that a Cheney challenge to Enzi would result in the destruction of the Wyoming Republican Party and open the door to a Democrat Senator from the state is ludicrous. Whoever wins the GOP primary — Cheney or Enzi — would be the overwhelming favorite to win the general election. Simpson, who’s most famous for the disastrous Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty bill in 1986, has always been an establishment guy and has always been more interested in getting on the Sunday talk shows than advancing conservatism..
Second, I think Enzi overestimates his conservative support. As you’ll recall, he teamed up with Dick Durban to co-sponsor a Senate bill which would impose a massive new internet sales tax just four months ago. Such a cumbersome bureaucratic mess like that would be harmful even in a good economy but, as Stacy noted at the time, it would be particularly disastrous in the Obama economy. There’s no way I can square a vote for what amounts to a national sales tax increase with a "reliably conservative record". Conservatives are supposed to oppose government expansion, not co-sponsor bills with liberals to facilitate it. A competitive primary would force Enzi to defend his record and explain himself. Isn’t that a good thing? As Governor Palin recently said:
Competition makes everyone work harder, be better, and be held accountable. This applies to politics, too. No one is ‘entitled’ to anything.
Governor Palin wasn’t specifically referring to Enzi, but her words are no less applicable in Wyoming than in Florida or New Hampshire.
Thanks for using the proper term.
Her sister Mary Cheney is a lesbian married to another woman
Dick Lynn and Liz all attended the ceremony
All love their family member Mary and her 2 children
If the lifestyle of a beloved sibling make someone like Liz Cheney unqualified for political office, then buh bye to voters with your views.
Take your vote, sit it out, and wait for a “perfect” conservative
I share your thoughts as regards Simpson. As I recall, Simpson was not even on board with Reagan in 1976 or 1980 (until his nomination was a foregone conclusion). I really resented his constant bickering with Jesse Helms while they served in the Senate together. Simpson was a good example of a 70% conservative coming from a state that should be sending a 100% conservative. Plus remember Simpson’s immigration bill; total disaster.
“Wasn’t Cruz born in Canada?”
Darn.
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