Liz Cheney

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Liz Cheney in 2013.

Liz Cheney (born 1966) is a daughter of Dick Cheney. She has held some positions within the Bush Administration in the State Department. No, she's not the lesbian one.

In January 2010 , she followed in her father's august footsteps by shooting her friend while "hunting" taking a "Waaah, we're all going to die!" approach to the foreign policy of the current president Barack Obama, to wit:

President Obama has weakened American security by treating terror as a law enforcement matter,[1] refusing to use every tool at his disposal to prevent attacks, and taking his eye off the ball.[2]

Which in English means that she dislikes Obama's policy against torturing prisoners and his failure so far to invade Iran or nuke North Korea.

She thinks the fact that Eric Holder employed some lawyers that gave trials for terrorists at the Justice Department was absolutely treasonous. Even some conservatives called her out for that one.

She is the co-founder and co-chairman of the wingnut fear-mongering group "Keep America Safe," along with Bill Kristol.

[edit] Failed Senate run

In July 2013, Liz announced that she would be running for a seat in the U.S. Senate in Wyoming in 2014. As scary as the thought of another Cheney being in Washington is, she ran into several major problems. The most obvious one is that she was born in Wisconsin, and never lived in Wyoming till late 2012, although she claimed that she didn't move for political gain.[3] While Wyoming is about as solid red as states come, her opponent in the primary was Mike Enzi, a three term incumbent with an extremely conservative voting record behind him.[4]

This predictably led to her doing poorly in early polls.[5] In November, with calling Enzi a RINO like most not being even remotely possible and mediocre poll results, Liz decided to try and gain support by doing something so evil that her dad never attempted to directly do, come out against gay marriage[6]. This led to immediate backlash from almost everybody, especially her married lesbian sister Mary Cheney, who had previously helped re-elect Bush and threw Mittens, who wanted to amend the Constitution to ban all gay marriage, a $2,500 check back in 2012.[7] Another poll showed how bad of an idea this was, and hopefully killed any chance of holding public office that she ever had.[8]

In early 2014, she ended up giving up on the whole thing due to serious health issues in her family.[9] We can only hope that this is the last that we see of her.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. Terrorism shouldn't be a law enforcement matter, apparently.
  2. The Telegraph - see number 95
  3. Trib: Cheney focused on 2012, backing Romney
  4. See for yourself
  5. Public Policy Polling: Uphill battle for Cheney in Wyoming
  6. Los Angeles Times: Liz Cheney sells out gay sister for shot at U.S. Senate seat
  7. From the Left: Recently Married Lesbian, Mary Cheney, Donates to Mitt Romney Campaign
  8. Politico: Commissioned poll: Mike Enzi up 53 on Liz Cheney
  9. Liz Cheney abandons Senate bid
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