We’re going to hunt down our original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile of U.S. Senate candidate Liz Cheney, the carpet-bagging daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney who after spending several years during President Obama’s first term as a Fox News Correspondent fomenting fear and anger towards Muslims to try and justify bigotry towards Muslim Americans, the use of torture in the War on Terror, and to keep our troops in combat in the Middle East, even if it means going to war into completely new quagmires there. She has defended the paranoid ramblings of Birther conspiracy theorists, rallied against the “Ground Zero Mosque” (that was actually an Islamic cultural center located blocks away), and had said that Republican obstructionism of any Democratic effort to do anything was “patriotism”. But the real comedy started once Liz Cheney challenged Senator Mike Enzi, where her campaign took one disastrous turn after another, from being caught falsifying information on her Wyoming hunting license application (to try and make it look like she was a resident for longer than she was), having her husband caught on voter rolls in both Virginia and Wyoming, when she attacked the print media for investigating her carpet-bagging by saying, “newspapers are dying, and that’s not a bad thing”, to ending up feuding with her own sister-in-law on Facebook after she reversed her stance on gay marriage. It was a comedy of errors.
And when we first created our Liz Cheney entry, back around July of 2014, we wondered if she would ever re-emerge to try for another run in politics. A year passed, and we had no new updates in 2015… but now, in 2016, she is in fact running for Congress in Wyoming again, to replace the retiring Cynthia Lummis. Liz learned so much from her first run for office that she managed to send out a Facebook post to announce her run for office, it was listed from… Alexandria, Virginia, in the home she supposedly left to go back and live in Wyoming and totally not be a carpet-bagger.
The GOP Primary isn’t until August 16th, when Cheney will face off against eight, yes EIGHT other Republicans in the GOP Primary for this seat. The winner of that battle royal will face off against one of two Democrats, either Charlie Hardy, or Ryan Greene. That prospective Democrat will be hard-pressed to win in November, though, considering the state’s +22 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index. Liz Cheney’s strategy thus far seems to be to keep her mouth shut, and hope she wins on name recognition alone (which is sure a lot smarter than what she did in 2014).
All we can say is, we feel like America is a better place when nobody named Cheney is involved in our government, and we’re hoping the people of Wyoming has as much common sense.
One Year Ago, June 26th, 2015: Paul Blair (OK)