Bad blood: Rand Paul moves to thwart a Liz Cheney Senate run

[jpak]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/22/rand-paul-liz-cheney-senate-wyoming-1506603

Rand Paul began his offensive against Liz Cheney as soon as a Senate seat opened up in May, reigniting a years-long feud between their families and warring wings of the Republican Party.

The Kentucky GOP senator quickly made contact with Cynthia Lummis, a former conservative House member, to encourage her to run for the Senate seat opening up in Wyoming now that Mike Enzi was retiring.

Lummis soon jumped into the race, leaving Cheney, her successor in Congress, with a tough choice: Embark on a brutal primary against Lummis or take the safer route and seek her fortune in House leadership.

That was only the beginning of Paul’s slugfest with Cheney, one that included a fierce back and forth over Twitter on foreign policy, dueling Sunday show appearances and a highly unusual phone call from Paul into a Casper, Wyo., TV station to assert that Wyoming Republicans are “tired” of Cheney’s support for nation-building abroad.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Not nearly enough internecine warfare among the Repugs. This is enjoyable.

[PCIntern]

2. In an nutshell, what's the etiology of the quarrel here?

Enquiring minds want to know!

[JDC]

3. Liz continues to take Rand's lunch money and put shaving cream in his locker

[Golden Raisin]

4. Two scumbuckets. A plague on both their houses.