Liz Cheney out

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NIKI2

Monday, January 6, 2014 9:14 PM

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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, she said in a prepared statement Monday morning.

"Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign," she said.

Cheney, the eldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, began telling associates of her decision over the weekend, CNN reported late Sunday night.

"Though this campaign stops today, my commitment to keep fighting with you and your families for the fundamental values that have made this nation and Wyoming great will never stop," she added.

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 that 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.

There was little public polling of the race, but two partisan polls released last year showed Enzi with a wide lead, an assessment mostly shared by GOP insiders watching the race.

Cheney's campaign got off to a rocky start.

Her critics labeled her a carpetbagger, noting that she moved to Wyoming only in 2012 after relocating from Virginia. The issue flared in August after the Wyoming media reported that Cheney improperly received a fishing license despite not living in the state for at least a year, as the law requires.

Grabbing even more attention was her very public dispute with her sister, Mary, over the issue of same-sex marriage. Mary Cheney, who is a lesbian, took to Facebook in November to object to Liz Cheney's opposition to same-sex marriage, claiming that her sister has previously supported her relationship while saying something very different on the campaign trail.

The dispute prompted their parents to weigh in, saying they were "pained" to see the sisters battle over a private matter in full view of the news media.

Beyond the campaign missteps, Cheney's election effort, vigorously supported by her father and his allies, often felt out of tune with the small-government conservative sentiment that has fueled other Republican primary challengers.

Cheney, like her father, is an unapologetic neoconservative who favors muscular use of American military power overseas, a policy that does not sit well with many grassroots conservatives, particularly in the libertarian-leaning West. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/05/politics/liz-cheney-senate-race/

Those carpetbaggging accusations had more credence after she wrongly claimed to be a 10-year resident of the state on an application for a fishing license, an error for which she later paid a fine.

But the campaign caused more than just familial divisions. Former Sen. Alan Simpson, a stalwart of Wyoming politics and close friend of the former vice president, described a tense exchange with Lynne Cheney over his support for Enzi.

Compounding matters for Liz Cheney, poll after poll showed showed Enzi holding massive leads among Wyoming Republicans.

No mention of what the "serious health issues" might be,

NIKI2

Monday, January 6, 2014 9:17 PM

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Pro-Enzi Super PAC Dissolves After Cheney Ends 'Fool's Errand' Campaign

The co-founder of a pro-Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) super PAC responded to Liz Cheney's decision to drop out of the Republican primary by saying her bid was a "fool's errand" all along.

Wyoming's Own super PAC issued the statement via co-founder Bill Cubin who also said they would be dissolving the group, which he started with Wyoming's Dick Bratton, after Cheney announced that she would drop out of the Senate race.

"I am happy [that] Mike Enzi is going to be re-elected," Cubin told TPM on Monday. "I also hope whatever medical issue came up gets resolved quickly with a good outcome. I respect Liz’s decision, but she was on a fool’s errand anyway so it looks like everyone wins; Liz’s family, Mike Enzi, and Wyoming. We are done. We came into the race to help defend Mike Enzi from an avalanche of out of state money and out of state interest groups," Cubin said. "With Liz out of the race, it seems there is little reason for us to continue now."

ELVISCHRIST

Monday, January 6, 2014 11:28 PM

She's an even bigger quitter than Palin!

AURAPTOR

Monday, January 6, 2014 11:53 PM

Q: Why does Liz Cheney, a woman, frighten some people so much ?

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M52NICKERSON

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 12:01 AM

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Originally posted by Niki2:
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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, she said in a prepared statement Monday morning.

"Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign," she said.

Cheney, the eldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, began telling associates of her decision over the weekend, CNN reported late Sunday night.

"Though this campaign stops today, my commitment to keep fighting with you and your families for the fundamental values that have made this nation and Wyoming great will never stop," she added.

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 that 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.

There was little public polling of the race, but two partisan polls released last year showed Enzi with a wide lead, an assessment mostly shared by GOP insiders watching the race.

Cheney's campaign got off to a rocky start.

Her critics labeled her a carpetbagger, noting that she moved to Wyoming only in 2012 after relocating from Virginia. The issue flared in August after the Wyoming media reported that Cheney improperly received a fishing license despite not living in the state for at least a year, as the law requires.

Grabbing even more attention was her very public dispute with her sister, Mary, over the issue of same-sex marriage. Mary Cheney, who is a lesbian, took to Facebook in November to object to Liz Cheney's opposition to same-sex marriage, claiming that her sister has previously supported her relationship while saying something very different on the campaign trail.

The dispute prompted their parents to weigh in, saying they were "pained" to see the sisters battle over a private matter in full view of the news media.

Beyond the campaign missteps, Cheney's election effort, vigorously supported by her father and his allies, often felt out of tune with the small-government conservative sentiment that has fueled other Republican primary challengers.

Cheney, like her father, is an unapologetic neoconservative who favors muscular use of American military power overseas, a policy that does not sit well with many grassroots conservatives, particularly in the libertarian-leaning West. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/05/politics/liz-cheney-senate-race/

Those carpetbaggging accusations had more credence after she wrongly claimed to be a 10-year resident of the state on an application for a fishing license, an error for which she later paid a fine.

But the campaign caused more than just familial divisions. Former Sen. Alan Simpson, a stalwart of Wyoming politics and close friend of the former vice president, described a tense exchange with Lynne Cheney over his support for Enzi.

Compounding matters for Liz Cheney, poll after poll showed showed Enzi holding massive leads among Wyoming Republicans.

No mention of what the "serious health issues" might be,

I doubt there are any health issues. She looked at the polls and figured out that she and her tea party ideas were not going to get elected.

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STORYMARK

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 1:49 AM

Yeah, I have a feeling the health issue in question is an "acute lack of confidence, as brought on by laughable poll numbers."

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NIKI2

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 6:45 AM

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Yeah, I have a feeling the health issue in question is an "acute lack of confidence, as brought on by laughable poll numbers."

That's the indication I seem to be getting, especially since she hasn't CITED any "health issues", which would seem to be to be a logical part of her statement, at least mentioning SOMETHING. Seems more likely it's one of those "everyone understands" things...

NIKI2

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 7:15 AM

Ah...there it is...apparently:

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The health issues that Republican Liz Cheney cited as her reason for dropping out of the Wyoming Senate race has to do with one of her daughters' diagnosis of diabetes, according to ABC News.

In her statement announcing her decision to drop out Cheney cited "serious health issues" that have recently come up in her family. According to Republicans close to the Cheney family, the issue is one of Cheney's daughters had been diagnosed with diabetes. The ABC News report did not specifically name which of Cheney's daughters has diabetes.

ELVISCHRIST

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 8:06 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Q: Why does Liz Cheney, a woman, frighten some people so much ?

I could ask the same about Hillary Clinton. Or Sandra Fluke.

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NIKI2

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 11:11 PM

Okay, so I bumped across a link to this and can't resist sharing it:

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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. 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 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.

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…

Princess Snarlyface, we hardly knew ye…

Yeah, it's Raw Story, which I usually avoid like the plague. But I couldn't resist the link, "Dick Dynasty VII: The Quittening", and it did make me giggle...a lot.

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