In my view, perhaps one of the foulest figures in more recent U.S. Political history - it's a toss up with Richard Nixon - is Dick Cheney, a/k/a Emperor Palpatine Cheney on this blog. Cheney almost single handedly led the cretin like George W. Bush around by the nose and precipitated the disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq which resulted in thousands of American deaths and billions of squandered American taxpayer dollars. Now, Emperor Palpatines's daughter - who is the antithesis to Princess Leah - has announced that she will run for the U. S. Senate seat for Wyoming in the 2014 election. Never mind that she has never actually lived in Wyoming until recently. Thankfully, Wyoming Republicans are not amused and the official party apparatus is likely to oppose Ms. Cheney. An intra-party bloodbath would obviously be delicious to watch. Here are highlights from Politico:
Liz Cheney announced Tuesday that she will challenge Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi in a Republican primary next year. The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney made the announcement in a six-minute YouTube video. Most of her announcement was an attack on President Barack Obama, with only a veiled swipe at the incumbent.
Enzi, 69, announced Tuesday that he will run for a fourth term. He said at the Capitol that Cheney did not give him a heads up and defiantly insisted that her move will not dissuade him.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Jerry Moran, a senator from Kansas, announced that the official party body will back Enzi.
Cheney, 46, worked in the State Department and the Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush administration. But she moved her family to Jackson Hole last year and has traveled aggressively around the state laying the foundation for what everyone assumed would be a political bid.
Wyoming’s other senator, Sen. John Barrasso, quickly endorsed Enzi. “Mike Enzi is a friend, a mentor and a tremendous US Senator for Wyoming,” Barrasso said. “I support his reelection.”
Another Republican with extensive ties to the fundraising world predicted that Cheney would collect strong support from national security conservatives, including the influential world of pro-Israel donors.
[A] prominent Liz Cheney candidacy in 2014 may come as an unwelcome development for some national Republicans who are seeking to rebrand the GOP after a disappointing 2014 cycle.
The Cheney name is not exactly a beloved calling card in national politics. The family has deep history in Wyoming and Dick Cheney is the state’s most important politician in modern times; nationally, the former vice president is one of the least popular national figures in recent memory.
And the Cheneys are inextricably linked to a brand of interventionist foreign policy thinking that has plummeted in public popularity.
The Enzi-Cheney race may create a variety of unconventional fault lines on the right. In a race between Enzi, a conservative incumbent who also supported an Internet sales tax, and Cheney, an ultra-hawkish candidate from the D.C. area, there’s not necessarily an obvious choice for anti-establishment activists.
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