Why, I should be able to keep this seat till I decide to leave or am defeated by a democrat. This is the natural order of things!
If Enzi is the median age, the most in the Senate are too damned old.
Cheney would be the media favorite and anybody with half a brain knows it.
Let’s ask her some questions about border control and gay marriage. LOL
if i were in wy, i’d be taking this as a golden opportunity to run a true conservative against these two.
golden opportunity for a primary plurality win.
The betrayal wasn’t that she ran. It is that she said that if he was going to run, she would not run. And then he ran, and she changed her mind and is running.
If she had said “I’m going to run whether you want to run or not”, then there would be no “betrayal”. And maybe he would not have run, although I presume he would have anyway.
As to “more moderate”, Enzi has an excellent ACU rating. What is Liz Cheney’s rating? None, because she has never really had to take positions on anything.
The biggest current complaint about Enzi is his support for the law to allow states to collect their sales tax from large companies that are out-of-state that sell things into a state (sometimes misnamed the “internet tax”). But we don’t even know if Liz Cheney opposes THAT yet.
We also don’t know if Liz Cheney supports or opposes DOMA, what her position is on abortion, or the details of her position on the immigration laws being debated.
Her position on these issues could all be excellent. But until we have actual statements in writing on them, it’s hard to claim that Enzi is the “more moderate”. He just has a long paper trail.
There are arguments to be made for switching senators, but until we have solid evidence, it’s not that Liz Cheney is more conservative than Mike Enzi.
And given that Liz has never held office, she does hold the strong possibility that she will succumb to power, like so many do, and veer far off to the “moderate” side. Enzi has been there 18 years. He is unlikely to make a sudden shift left.
Why didn't Enzi become Ted Cruz 17 years earlier?
After all WY should make for a secure seat.
If you don’t live in Wyoming, odds are, you have never heard of Senator Mike Enzi. Even by the standards of the Senate he is pretty low key. He doesn’t show up on talk shows and does not engage in the flamboyant grandstanding that some members of the Senate do.
Liz Cheney is going to primary Mike Enzi in Wyoming.
Liz Cheney is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. In the last few years she has been establishing herself as a conservative figure outside the shadow of her father.
What about Enzi?
While he has a generally right of center record, he has been a notable champion for more taxes. Specifically he has been working with Dick Durban the Illinois Senator from the Party of Treason to impose an Internet sales tax.
Supporting the Internet sales tax (The so-called “Market Place Fairness Act”) is enough to deserve being primaried.
The most interesting reaction to the idea that Liz Cheney would primary Mike Enzi comes from the Republican Establishment and that alone means she should do it.
Former Wyoming Senator and king of the sell-out Republicans Alan Simpson said a Cheney primary run against Enzi would be “the destruction of the Republican Party of Wyoming if she decides to run and he runs, too.” Simpson also said, “It’s a disaster — a divisive, ugly situation — and all it does is open the door for the Democrats for 20 years.”
The Establishment whined that Enzi had done nothing to be turned out.
Really?
The Constitution provides Senators with six-year terms, not terms for life or until they do something worthy of being “put out.”
The fact that the Establishment is circling the wagons to support Enzi and that he is now getting fawning stories about him in the New York Times is reason enough that conservatives should primary him.
Enzi does not want to retire. That is his choice. He can and should run as long as he likes. But the one thing he should learn as should everyone elected to office, the office is not theirs. It belongs to the people. Incumbents should be primaried early and often. America is not the old Soviet Union or China where only one candidate is offered and he or she serves until the Establishment gets tired of them.
One of the most dangerous threats to our liberty is when elected officials develop the sense of entitlement. They believe they are entitled to their jobs and they are entitled to be our public masters instead of our public servants.
We expect that in the Democrats. We expect better from the Republicans.
For conservatives, in 2014, our motto should be “primary early, primary often and primary effectively!”
http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/primary-fever?page=2