Why the Cheneys' gay marriage feud could burn the GOP

[Addison]

You can add "messy intra-family fight over the legitimacy of a sister's same-sex marriage" to the long list of problems facing Liz Cheney's quixotic Senate bid.

More than that though, you can add it to the long list of woes facing the Republican Party's halting rebrand. With a civil war for control of the party already underway, the spat underscores the emerging divide within the GOP over how to handle a politically explosive issue on which the party is increasingly on the wrong side of shifting public opinion.

For all the national coverage of the imbroglio, it's a comparative nothingburger back in Wyoming, where Cheney is trying to unseat three-term Sen. Mike Enzi in a primary fight. And even if the scuttlebutt were politically explosive, it wouldn't necessarily matter much in the race given Cheney's highly improbable odds of winning. Enzi has a comfortable 30-point lead, and a majority of Wyoming Republicans, in one poll, said Cheney was not even a true Wyomingite.

Nationally, though, the fight has laid bare the GOP's gay marriage divide, while reinforcing a stereotype of the party as uncaring and out of touch.

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http://theweek.com/article/index/252999/why-the-cheneys-gay-marriage-feud-could-burn-the-gop

[Jamaal510]

1. I can't believe that

Liz Cheney doesn't even want her own sister to be happy. Why should it matter to her who somebody else marries or loves?

[Heather MC]

2. Because Polls show in Wyoming voters are overwhemingly against gay marriage

So the Cheney's cooked up the scheme to have a public fight about it. But it is all bullshit

I don't believe For one second Mary Cheney would have said shit publicly if the polling against gay marriage was not so high.

She ran her father's campaign they know how the game is played.

It should be interesting to see how this scheme works.

To Quote J. Biden, "This all a bunch of Mularky!"