Liz Cheney running for Senate

[Alferd_Packer]

That takes some balls.

I think you are thinking of her sister.

 

[Tricky]

Liz chooses political expediency (i.e., pandering to bigots) over supporting the right of her sister to marry:

Mary Cheney: My Sister Is ‘Dead Wrong’ On Gay Marriage

Mary Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and younger sister of Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Senate candidate, took to Facebook to criticize her sister’s recent statement reiterating her opposition to gay marriage, the New York Times reported Saturday.

Mary Cheney, who is openly gay and married her longtime partner last year, posted Friday evening: “For the record, I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on the issue of marriage.”

“Freedom means freedom for everyone,” she added, according to the NYT. “That means that all families — regardless of how they look or how they are made — all families are entitled to the same rights, privileges and protections as every other.”

Their father, Dick Cheney, supports same-sex marriage.

"I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage," Liz Cheney said a statement released earlier Friday.

Boy, I bet holidays with the family are a lot of fun in the Cheney household.

 

[dudalb]

Boy, I bet holidays with the family are a lot of fun in the Cheney household.

Yeah, kind of a modern version of "The Lion In Winter".

What Shall We Hang, The Holly Or Each Other?

 

[PitPat]

I think you are thinking of her sister.

Nope, it's Liz, though I did consider that idiom may be misinterpreted. Still seemed like the best fit.

 

[Ladewig]

I would use the term eminence grise instead, but in any case. Why would being a behind-the-scenes power broker that pulled the strings during the W administration be considered a bad thing either by the American electorate as a whole or by the Wyoming electorate?

I'd like to apologize for this post.

Now that I have seen Dick Cheney's approval numbers, I agree that name recognition would almost certainly hurt her on a national level. I don't know about what will happen at the Wyoming level.