First on CNN: Liz Cheney to abandon Senate bid

[kpete]

Last edited Mon Jan 6, 2014, 02:55 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: CNN


First on CNN: Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney, is ending her bid for Wyoming's Senate seat, sources tell CNN's John King.

New York (CNN) -- 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.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/05/politics/liz-cheney-senate-race/index.html

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“Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign. My children and their futures were the motivation for our campaign and their health and well-being will always be my overriding priority,” Cheney said in the statement.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/liz-cheney-wyoming-senate-race-101767.html#ixzz2pcZlUbw2http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-cheney-daughter-diagnosed-with-diabetes

[RandySF]

1. I can hear the bitter grinding of teeth all the from the Cheney household. n/t

[Wilms]

8. That's the pacemaker. n/t

[hibbing]

2. hahahaha

I'm surprised all powerful daddy couldn't get all his sleazy friends and war criminal cohorts to cajole the electorate to vote for her.

Peace

[loudsue]

15. Hell, I'm surprised dad didn't have her opponent killed.

Cheney is one dark s.o.b., and I put NOTHING past him.

[christx30]

20. Oh come on.

It's not like Dick would shoot an old guy... wait.. Nevermind.

[tofuandbeer]

34. How did he get away with that. Can you imagine if a Dem VP did that?

[dem in texas]

55. He invited Mike Enzi to go dove hunting

Dick invited Mike Enzi to go dove hunting, but Mike was too smart for that!

[JNelson6563]

31. Yes, and ice on the plane would actually be believable this time.

Just sayin'.

[Suburban Warrior]

3. So, Liz Cheney is a quitter...

just like Sara Palin.

[DallasNE]

30. The Campaign Roll Out Was Very Poorly Done

Then she quickly got in trouble over trying to save a few dollars on a Wyoming fishing license that strings were pulled on, exposing her privileged status, and everybody openly stood their distance as she was exposed as not ready for prime time -- even throwing her own sister under the bus. This is a merciful death for a campaign that was doomed from the start by the candidate.

[tofuandbeer]

35. Thanks for the insight.

For a fishing license? That's nuts!
That family is seriously messed up. Can't believe he ran our country for 8 years—and we still have scars from it. I can attest to that personally.
Thx again.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. Awww damn. . .that family feud would have been great to watch in public. Liz v. Mary!

[delrem]

5. She sacrificed her sister to that.

I guess a propensity to express online orgasms about the rewards of torture does that to a person.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. She's a looker

[mackerel]

7. LMFAO!!!!!!!

[hibbing]

9. holy hell...that should come with a warning!

[2naSalit]

21. Honestly! My eyes! My eyes!

It was far worse than I had thought it would be before scrolling down enough to see THAT!



All I can say is, Wyoming in all its redneckness will be the better for it.

[davidpdx]

40. +1

I'm blind, I'm blind

[Skittles]

12. SCHEDULING Adenoid_Hynkel FOR ASS KICKING

*EGREGIOUS*

[grasswire]

32. oh lordy

an all caps ass kicking!

That's going to leave a mark.

[jmowreader]

18. Oh come on, she's not that bad

[merrily]

49. Oh, come on. She's not that good, either.

I am not crazy about judging her on her looks to begin with, but, if that's what we're going to do, let's use something a little more realistic.

[madmom]

51. With all their money, why did they not get her crooked teeth fixed?

[3catwoman3]

52. Couldn't Darth Daddy afford...

...braces? That's some serious misalignment on those lower choppers.

[LiberalLovinLug]

58. She should humbly accept that for Repubs there are two different requiriments

..for men and women running for office.

Men can be loud, bigoted, aggressive, sexist, racist and ugly,

Women can only get away with being loud, bigoted, aggressive, sexist (in a backhanded way) and racist.

Just like Fox News needs blond bimbos to keep their salivating older right-wing white males watching, the GOP needs relatively attractive space cadets like Bachmann and Palin to keep their attention.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

63. Her outside isn't the issue

Her insides are as ugly as her vile, soulless father and smarmy arrogant mother. Fuck the Cheneys.

[BlueStreak]

26. She has her Daddy's scowl

I guess contempt for the rest of humanity is genetic.

[catbyte]

27. OMFG, that's the creepiest thing I've seen in quite some time, LOL.

[olddad56]

28. she looks like a younger version of Shooter in drag.

[SoapBox]

29. Quoting Al Bundy (Married with Children)

I'm blind!

[tofuandbeer]

36. Awsome!

[BumRushDaShow]

39. Arrrggggghhhhh

That jolted me back a few hundred feet.

[Cha]

10. I sure as hell didn't want her big ugly neo-con

mouth in the US Senate. Good news she's dropping out.

[sheshe2]

13. +1000000000000000000000000000000000

[Cha]

14. LOL!

Actually a celebratory toast is in order, she!

[sheshe2]

16. Okay then!

[Cha]

17. Mahalo, I'll have a Ginger, please, she!

[sheshe2]

19. Me too!

[The Wizard]

11. More suited to being a toilet seat model.(NT)

[adieu]

22. That's too bad

I really want her to run and completely disrupt the whole GOP primary process, only to either win the primary and then lose out to a Democrat, or lose in the primaries only to skulk back home (in another state) with her tail tucked between her legs.

Whatever the case, she dropped out too soon.

[Mz Pip]

23. I agree.

I would have loved to see this play out and have her high tail it back to Virginia with her spiked tail between her legs.

[PearliePoo2]

46. This!

It was getting really ugly and I was loving it!
The mean, no-nothing P.O.S spawn of "shooter" was showing her true, nasty colors.
Throwing everyone and anyone under the bus, even her own sister.
Pity it has come to an end.

[lib87]

24. Wyoming can Rest Assured

...nothing of value was lost.

Bye!

[DeSwiss]

25. K&R

- This'll be good news for John McCain.

[Tx4obama]

33. Kick n/t

[Danny22tree]

37. It should read:

Spawn of Satan to abandon Senate bid.

[niyad]

54. welcome to DU.

actually, I think that is an insult to satan.

[muriel_volestrangler]

38. It's a disaster for first rate comedy

TBogg has lost a great source:

Dick Dynasty VII: The Quittening

Oh, pooh.

We were so excited these past few months watching Elizabeth “The Not Lesbian One” Cheney’s campaign flop around like a landed trout caught by someone with an ill-gotten fishing license as we have documented here and here and here and here and here and here and, well, you get the idea. But it seems that Liz recently sat down with her pollsters who aggregated, weighted, and indexed a collection of statewide polls in Wyoming using formulas which accounted for economic status, ethnicity, party identification and past voting history and concluded that, as her head pollster explained to her: “nobody likes you, everybody hates you, they think you should eat some worms..” and so now Liz is probably going to pull out just like her dad didn’t do when he really really needed that fifth deferment.
...
I have to admit that I am intrigued by this “problematic recent incident involving a close member” of the Cheney family which could range anywhere from setting a stack of her sister’s Indigo Girls CD’s on fire in the backyard to “Dick, I’m worried about the Beaver, and also you need to go talk to your daughter. She shot her sister in the face AGAIN today so I sent her to her room”.

Needless to say, I will miss watching Liz Cheney become more and more shrill and homicidal as her campaign continued to implode until eventually she would lose it on national TV (I had: ‘shanks an uppity reporter’ in my office pool). But now she will just pack up her carpetbags and sadly head back to Virginia where she’ll probably sit around the house in sweats all day drinking pitchers of blood orange jalapeno margaritas and screaming at Ellen on the teevee because it’s all the lesbian’s (Mary Cheney's) fault and now America is going to die or something…

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/06/dick-dynasty-vii-the-quittening/

[davidpdx]

41. She didn't stand a chance in the world

barring something "happening" to the incumbent.

[underpants]

42. She put the "WHY??" back in Wyoming

Like the tag line kpete!

[Demeter]

43. Couldn't happen to a more deserving candidate

We have been spared a disaster

[herding cats]

44. I love the smell of neocon failure in the morning!

Not that there was any doubt this carpetbagging, sister backstabbing, thought she could ride on the coattails of her evil daddy in politics, POS was going to fail.

She cites "serious health issues" that "have recently arisen in our family" as the reason for dropping out. I wonder if the health issues stem from the shock that dear daddy Dick couldn't bully the Republicans the the US Senate to support his offspring, let alone the ones in his old home state of Wyoming?

[LibertyLover]

45. I read a blurb that Liz is claiming family health issues

are forcing her to drop her election bid. I'm betting that someone finally explained to her that she would be expected to do at least a minimal amount of work if she were elected. Liz and Meynard G. Krebs are both allergic to work, as I know from personal experience.

[DallasNE]

53. Funny How Candidates Find Compassion

For a health issue in the family when their candidacy is moribund to the point of being on life support.

[Mike Daniels]

57. I don't think she planned to work at all had she been elected

Like most Tea Party candidates she was going to DC so she could get paid on the tax-payer dime in order to keep the government from functioning.

The only difference in policy that she seemed to have with Enzi was that he was willingness to "work with" the Dems. She never offered a reason for anyone to throw out Enzi and hire her to take his place.

[merrily]

47. It's a Sicilian message.

It means her father is lower than whale poop.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

48. Liz simply lacked her father's charisma.

[merrily]

50. You got my vote!

[Paladin]

56. Always nice to witness the Cheney family being afflicted by Karma.

It hasn't happened nearly often enough to suit me.....

[VA_Jill]

59. The only "serious health issue"

I can see is the one involving the knife her sister was gonna put between her shoulder blades if she kept it up…...

[valerief]

60. "You suck" is a serious health issue? nt

[question everything]

61. A pundit - don't remember who - recently suggested she would be killed in the primaries

so might as well cut your loses and leave the race under your own terms.

[Swede Atlanta]

62. DUers.....stop, stop, stop.....

I agree that Liz Cheney and her Orwellian family are the things nightmares are made from. They represent everything I am against.

That said....it appears the reason she is giving up her bid is due to a serious health issue with one of her daughters. Could that claim be manufactured? Of course. Is it likely the would manufacture such a claim for "cover"? Yes. But let's just assume it is true.

If we progressives claim to be persons of compassion and personal integrity then it is incumbent upon us to show that compassion and wish Liz and her family the best (provided she stay out of politics and our lives).

I was born and raised in Wyoming so I have some credibility here. People from Wyoming are conservative but generally not of the knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing variety.

They "believe" in certain things they don't really understand such as 'freedom' and 'gays shouldn't marry'. But otherwise they are in general a population, the nation's smallest, that are very sensitive to the actions of the federal government. Yes we know they don't realize they get a whole bunch more from DC than they contribute but their perception is DC governs their lives whether it is gun control, the ACA, snowmobile restrictions in Yellowstone or re-introducing the gray wolf.