In Wyoming, a Cheney Run Worries G.O.P.

[elleng]

A young Dick Cheney began his first campaign for the House in this tiny village — population 1,600 — after the state’s sole Congressional seat finally opened up. But nowadays, his daughter Liz does not seem inclined to wait patiently for such an opening.

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.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/politics/a-cheney-on-the-wyoming-ballot-if-so-a-problem-for-the-gop.html?hp



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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.”

The only reason Mr. Enzi would “be in any difficulty is if there’s a weird group of Republicans who think compromise is akin to communism,” said Mr. Simpson.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Would that it were so. However, I have real trouble

believing that Princess Liz could do that much damage to the hyperdominant status of the Republican Party in a state that makes its living by cannibalizing itself and selling off the bits & pieces.

[graham4anything]

2. Best thing would be for a democrartic candidate to strongly defeat Liz Cheney

same as Hillary needs to whallop Jeb Bush in 2016 general election, to forever stop the Bush's from office.

As I myself want Chelsea Clinton to run for office as a democratic candidate, I do not wish to not allow Liz to run on her side

Let's beat the Bush/Cheney's at the voting booth to forever repudiate their name.

[madinmaryland]

7. Never will happen. Unless Cheney or Enzi decide to run as an indie, splitting the repuke vote

and letting a Dem win with 35-38% of the vote.

[Segami]

3. Dream on LIZ-ard...

You know,....she strikingly resembles her father! ....

[monmouth3]

4. I don't think she is quite as loved as she and her father think she is...n/t

[Solly Mack]

5. She's a POS just like her father.

Elizabeth Cheney, Bush Legal Counsel

[Doctor_J]

6. Satan himself could run for any office in WY and win

as long as he/she had an (R) after his/her name

[gejohnston]

8. unfortunately, I think Simpson is overly optimistic

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Oh wait, he is making it sound like a bad thing. I'm not as optimistic. At best I picture a return to pre 1977 (scroll down to myth one for a better explanation)
http://www.wyomingalmanac.com/wyoming_politics

But at least that explains why she enrolled her kids in horseback riding lessons on her last trip to see Mom and Darth. Her negatives with Republicans are nothing compared to independents and PINOs (party in name only. Really independents who have a party label.)

CHEYENNE — A California-based political action committee has mounted a national petition drive to draft Liz Cheney to run for the U.S. Senate in 2014.

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/petition-to-draft-liz-cheney-to-run-for-u-s/article_cce4fe60-889d-5c0a-a966-74da9660dfa3.html

Born in Wisconsin, been living near the beltway for years, and a California PAC behind her. Oh, and being a neocon on top of it. I see where that's going.

Since she has taken up residence in Teton County, with dad. Also the one "blue" county." If she makes the general, she won't carry her own county and I doubt she will carry the purple counties on I-80.

If she beats Enzi in a primary, I don't think it would be that hard to find a Dem to beat her. Enzi would have the establishment behind him, Cheney would be on her own.

[glinda]

9. She has plans to make Wyoming look like swiss cheese perhaps....

http://trib.com/business/energy/plans-for-wells-buoy-wyoming-s-oil-and-gas-future/article_f3d3ec28-41a5-566c-bde1-3009881dbe48.html

[Stuart G]

10. She is 46..good last name..you know

And of course...that entitles her to a senate seat. That is how she thinks. If she goes after the "quiet spoken" fellow, and she just moved in, you know, well..that would be just interesting.. Let's have 3 of em run. Let's see Cheney get her head handed to her last in a 3 way race at the end. She can get 20 percent.... ok?

[Douglas Carpenter]

11. knr