Liz Cheney grew up in Virginia. Her dad worked in DC and in the Nixon and Ford administrations from the time she was 2 or 3. He wasn't even elected to Congress until she was 12, and she continued her education in Virginia schools all the way through high school. That's what I meant when I said she has longer, deeper roots in Virginia than anywhere else.
Her family was in politics there and she has name identity.
Her father has name identity. She's running on that alone.
I mean you suggest MD!
I don't think I suggested Maryland because there isn't a seat up for election in 2012. But I did suggest Virginia, since she's lived there for decades. What's wrong with her running there?
And the fact of the matter is, he’s a carpetbagger too since he didn’t grow up in Wyoming.
Enzi has lived in Wyoming for over 40 years. I doubt Cheney has lived there for 40 weeks.
“Enzi has lived in Wyoming for over 40 years.”
So does that mean that he’s been a good Senator? Maybe he has, but this business of lifetime “service” needs to stop. The FF’s never intended for the Enzi’s of the country to settle in and make being a Senator a lifetime proposition. There was a time when Hatch was a good senator, ditto for Lugar (they both started the same day and have been there almost 40 years), but as they got older, they ran out of ideas and their main goal was to stay in their cushy jobs for the rest of their lives, lying to their constituents or more importantly working against their interests. The Senate is a disgrace. Do we really want death to be the way we change our leaders? Just look at how many Senate seats have changed in the past couple of years due to death! The Lautencorpse, the Hawaiian Twins, The old coot from WVA! A year ago, I looked at the Senate and found that the top twenty Senators had a total of 518 years of “serivice,” Is that what you want?