Cheney Bid Divides Wyoming Republicans Puzzled by Timing

[Purveyor]

By John McCormick - Jul 17, 2013
Robert DiLorenzo’s e-mail account has been filling up with questions from friends about Liz Cheney ever since she formally declared her intention to challenge a fellow Republican, U.S. Senator Michael Enzi of Wyoming.

“It’s being greeted with confusion and mystery,” said DiLorenzo, a Wyoming attorney who co-founded the Big Horn Basin Tea Party. “I have seen her on Fox News, but we don’t really know enough about her and what she wants to do.”

Cheney, 46, a Fox News commentator who is the elder daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, will have her work cut out for her as she challenges a 69-year-old incumbent who is well-liked by both anti-government spending Tea Party activists and more traditional Republicans.

The two other members of Wyoming’s congressional delegation, Republican Senator John Barrasso and Representative Cynthia Lummis, the state’s at-large Republican congresswoman, have both come out in support of Enzi and the National Republican Senatorial Committee is backing him.

“When someone has never gotten a paycheck in Wyoming and has lived their entire adult life in Virginia, I think they should run from Virginia,” Lummis said yesterday on NBC News. “Hillary Clinton could pull this off in New York, in my opinion Liz Cheney cannot pull this off in Wyoming, and I’m disappointed that she’s decided to try,” she said, referring to the former first lady’s successful 2000 Senate bid after leaving the White House and a career of politics in Arkansas.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-18/cheney-bid-divides-wyoming-republicans-puzzled-by-timing.html

[Mr. David]

1. Any *VIABLE* Democrats out there that could steal the seat?

Maybe former Governor Dave Freudenthal?

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Not really, from what I understand.

It's basically a choice between bad (Enzi) and breathtakingly awful (Cheney) insofar as DUers are concerned. Wyoming is a pretty "red" state, as are so many in the West, but there are more of what used to be known as "mainstream" GOPers there than in the Southern US (where the GOP has truly lost its grip on reality) - and they do NOT like what Cheney is attempting to do, as the article points out.

Cheney may truly have miscalculated her "welcome." Wyoming predominantly favors GOP candidates, but not all voters there are complete idiots. Her father could get away with calling Wyoming his residence even when he hadn't lived there for years - just another reason why the 2000 "selection" should never have been rejected, IMO. But his godawful spawn is completely a creature of the Eastern and inside-the-Beltway establishment and will have an uphill battle trying to convince Wyomingites that she is anything other than a 21st-century "carpetbagger."

I hope that she fails - badly!!

[BlueDemKev]

4. The thing is...

I don't believe there are enough Democrats in Wyoming to fully occupy a 1975 Volkswagon Beetle. Even if we actually do get a viable Democrat to run, he/she will be a blue dog at best. Wyoming is just too conservative for any progressive to win there.

[dbackjon]

3. Enzi needs to avoid small planes

[yellowcanine]

6. And quail hunts......

[dem in texas]

5. What she thinks of Wyoming Voters

L. Cheney thinks Wyoming voters are a bunch of dumb cowboys who will see the Cheney name on the ballot and vote for her. I hop she get the ass whipping she deserves.