Dick Cheney Won't Let Family Squabbles Derail His Proxy Senate Campaign

[DonViejo]

PHILIP BUMP

Dick Cheney's daughter Liz will have her name on the ballot for a Senate seat in Wyoming, but the race is all about her father. The former vice president is hitting the fundraising circuit even as he laments that a key policy fight over gay marriage wasn't "dealt with" in complete privacy.

The now-famous spat over gay marriage between Liz Cheney and her sister Mary began when Liz declared her opposition to the unpopular-in-Wyoming practice. This came as a surprise to Mary and Mary's wife, who excoriated Liz in a Facebook post. Dick, ever political (if not politic), backed Liz, prompting Mary to declare her neutrality in the Wyoming race. His frustration, though, was that this obviously political fight ever became public, as he insisted to ABC News.

“We were surprised that there was an attack launched against Liz on Facebook, and wished it hadn’t happened,” Cheney said at the National Press Club. “It’s always been dealt with within the context of the family and frankly that’s our preference.”

(Cheney was at the National Press Club in a joint appearance with his doctor, pitching the latter's new book, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey.) He wouldn't say much else on the subject, telling reporters, "Don't waste your time." Don't waste your time asking about my daughter's policy stances and the debates over them; that's for our family to deal with. OK.

Full article
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/12/dick-cheneys-wont-let-family-squabbles-derail-his-proxy-senate-campaign/355772/

[truebluegreen]

1. Heh. It's already derailed, and was before it began.

The combined idiocy and arrogance is breathtaking though--thinking the Cheney name would purchase a Senate seat for a beltway insider in libertarian Wyoming. Ah, the smell of schadenfreude in the morning!

[yellowcanine]

2. “It’s always been dealt with within the context of the family..." Until it wasn't when

sister Liz decided to take the politically expedient route and in the process throw her sister and family under the bus.

[yellowcanine]

3. Priceless line from the linked article........

"it's clear that Liz Cheney's campaign has grown very Dick-centric,..."

[UCmeNdc]

4. Dick Cheney's fight to gain power again.

Dick Cheney is using his daughter to get his hands back on the reins of power.

[monmouth3]

5. "Never go against the Family.:...Don Corleone...n/t