Conservatives blast (Liz) Cheney as new McCarthy

[deminks]

http://www.americablog.com/2010/03/conservatives-blast-liz-cheney-as-new.html

Oh, she'll need to get in line if she's the new conservative McCarthy. She's got an entire wing of her party in front of her. Still, it's commendable that several lead conservative voices, including Paul Mirengoff at PoweLine, have challenged Cheney:

The backlash is growing against Liz Cheney after she demonized Department of Justice attorneys as terrorist sympathizers for their past legal work defending Gitmo detainees -- and now it's coming from within deeply conservative legal circles.

On Friday, the conservative blog Power Line put up a post titled, "An Attack That Goes Too Far." Author Paul Mirengoff, called Cheney's effort to brand DoJ officials the "Al Qaeda 7," "vicious" and "unfounded" even if it was right to criticize defense lawyers for voluntarily doing work on behalf of Gitmo detainees.

Reached on the phone, Mirengoff offered an even sharper rebuke, declaring that what Cheney was doing was comparable if not potentially worse than the notorious anti-communist crusades launched by Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

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a chip off the old block, n'est pas?

[gateley]

1. Perfect comparison. nt.

[Stuart G]

2. It is jus a shame...too bad...how sad..poor Liz...in trouble...let's cry..

[LynneSin]

3. Can someone tell me when we elected Liz Cheney to office?

:shrug:

[DBoon]

4. but I thought tail-gunner Joe was their hero? (nt)

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. The trouble is the media will ignore that and........

give her, and her venom, all the air time she wants. It's as if what she says matters. She is definitely as evil as her father. The nut doesn't fall to far from the tree.

[tech9413]

8. I can only ask, Why does anyone give a shit what she has to say?

She's a know nothing who's only claim to fame is her evil bastard father. Just because the idiot media gives someone like this air time is no reason to expect that anything they say has any import.

[gratuitous]

6. Cheney, like McCarthy, wouldn't get any traction

Except that they were actively aided and abetted by any number of folks who could and should know better. Apparently Wolf Blitzer dedicated a rather large segment to this notion yesterday, lending it a great deal of credence it doesn't deserve.

[Orsino]

7. They resent intrusion by amateurs, I suppose. n/t

[applegrove]

9. I'm so glad they are standing up for the American way to her nazism.