Liz Cheney, whose upstart bid to unseat Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi sparked a round of warfare in the Republican Party and even within her own family, is dropping out of the Senate primary, sources told CNN late Sunday.
Cheney, the eldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, began telling associates of her decision over the weekend and could make an official announcement about the race as early as Monday.
Cheney's surprising decision to jump into the race, an announcement made in a YouTube video last summer, roiled Republican politics in the Wyoming, a state Dick Cheney represented in Congress for five terms before moving up the Republican food chain in Washington.
Enzi was a low-key presence in Washington who was elected in 1996 and, with few blemishes, amassed a conservative voting record in the Senate. He expressed public annoyance at Cheney's decision to mount a primary challenge. A number of his Senate colleagues quickly rallied to his side and pledged support for his re-election bid.
There was little public polling of the race, but two partisan polls released last year showed Enzi with a wide lead, an assessment mostly shared by GOP insiders watching the race.
Pretty sure this call has nothing to do with the Tea Party vs. GOP leadership scuffle, and everything to do with Liz Cheney being a horrible person, even by Republican standards. She's so bad in fact that all indications are she would have lost her primary by something like 50 points. She stomped in and demanded Daddy buy her a Senate seat, and this is what happened:
She was a bad egg, as the man says. And not even Daddy is going to throw good money after bad rubbish.
Bye-bye, Liz!
Morning cup of Gene Wilder!
ReplyDelete(Ms. Cheney seems to be the ultimate Republican/conservative, including the entitlement and privilege-clutching. She dissed her sister's marriage. Not that I'm judging, or anything… But all mentions of Ms. Cheney should be accompanied by that video.)