Liz Cheney, a former George W. Bush administration state department official and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, announced Monday that she will end her primary challenge to Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), a third-term Senator who ranked as theeighth most conservative member of the Senate in 2012. In a statement, Cheney said that “serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign.”Her less-than-five-month campaign was plagued by poor press and political missteps. Here’s a look back at the worst of them:1. Kicked off her campaign with an ageist attack on incumbent Senator Mike Enzi (R): In a July letter to Wyoming voters, she said she was running because she believed it “necessary for a new generation of leaders to step up to the plate.” This was generational swipe at Enzi’s age: he is 69, she is 47. Enzi responded to the announcement by claiming Cheney had promised him she would only run if he retired, lamenting,“I thought we were friends.” Cheney denied making the promise. Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R), Wyoming’s sole U.S. Representative, called Cheney’s move “bad form” and suggested she run in Virginia — a clear dig at Cheney’s 2012 move to the Equality State.2. Caught filing a false application for a fishing license: In August, the Casper Star-Tribune reported that Cheney received a Wyoming fishing license earlier than she should have been able to, not having been a year-long resident. Though Cheney claimed that the clerk must have made a mistake in listing her as a 10-year resident of the the state, she paid a $220 bond later that month, covering a fine and court costs for the charge of making a false statement to procure a fishing license.3. Denied claims that she supported abortion and same-sex marriage: After a reported “push poll” in Wyoming told voters that Cheney “supports abortion and aggressively promotes gay marriage,” she put out a statement in August claiming, “I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage.” This seemed to contradict her her 2009 statement that “Freedom means freedom for everybody.”Cheney’s campaign accused the Enzi camp of running the push poll — a charge Enzi’s spokesman denied. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of the Senate GOP, backed Enzi and its press secretary joked that “With all due respect, it looks like Liz Cheney is fishing without a license again.”
her father is no longer all that and a chicken wing she was running on his coat tail the same one tattered and bloody from Iraq and Afganistan, IMO her biggest flub was coming out on her fathers record and like the apple not falling far she was like him, big time mistake nobody likes him he was a Chris Christie in a higher office.
in this day and age political protocol for running is very much made available to those7. Her husband was caught being registered to vote in two states: Politicoreported that Cheney’s husband, Phil Perry, had been registered to vote in both Virginia and Wyoming for the past nine months, “even though he signed a document in Wyoming saying he was not registered elsewhere.” After questions arose, Perry notified the Wyoming clerk of the error and requested that his Virginia registration be cancelled. The campaign released a statement claiming, “Phil believed he was no longer registered in Virginia and did not vote there. When he realized he was still on the Virginia rolls, he immediately corrected that.”
who aspire, so you keep track of things like residence when you are running in a state that is not your only residence pitfalls of the rich didn't McCain have 7 homes in different states?
Polling was also a problem throughout Cheney’s short candidacy. A July PPP poll found her badly trailing Enzi in a primary match-up, 54 percent to 26 percent — and a November internal poll for an anti-Cheney super PAC found her down by 52 points, 69 percent to 17 percent. Cheney’s campaign claimed that the race was tightening, but did not release any numbers showing that.
every talk show she went on she portrayed herself as a snake ready to strike with lies first generated by her father she didn't come off as the one the rabid republican base wanted she was too aggressive and self important, no one likes a wanna be tough guy with no game.
