He has a valid point. Liz Cheney lives in VA and has lived here for quite some time. Why is she going to WY to challenge a perfectly good, conservative senator when there are 2 liberal Dems who should be challenged where she lives now?
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Because if she follows the Rubio model of "Tea Party Vs. Old Guard" and gains a seat in a conservative state she can stay in Virginia/DC 360 days of the year and still run unopposed for the next 5 terms. In VA she'd have a fight on her hands every election.
VA is a whole nuther ballgame.
Name recognition in Wyoming. She could carry 20% on her name in Virginia with all the gubment employees that live there.
I’m not addressing his disagreement with her decision.
I just don’t understand a pattern of making sarcastic, cutting remarks about somebody, in public, when it is only knocking down the person you make it about, who is a fellow GOP conservative, of which there are so few that are genuine. And each time it revolved around the possibility, or the probability, they might run for a higher office, or run for office in the first place.
I would stay out of this one - why is it Rand Paul’s calling to make cutting remarks about it? Let her try to make her case and let the chips fall. The WY voters will decide. Or the activists or the money people, whomever.
In Ted Cruz’s case, that made Rand Paul look SMALL. Because to cut down his fellow conservative star like that, even before Cruz actually took steps towards running, just made him look like he can’t stand even the talk, or rumor, that somebody besides himself might run who is also a star.
Again, I’m not addressing her decision or reasoning behind it. I’m not talking about her so much as wondering about his pattern of sarcastic, cutting remarks at the slightest hint somebody might run for something he doesn’t want them to run for.
You are certainly entitled to your POV here on FR concerning her possible run.
Liz and her husband bought a home in WY over a year ago. And Enzi is hardly “perfect,” having voted to tax the internet.
Well, these days all sorts of folks spend significant time in various States. Who’s to say what State one is a resident of if one should live for 4 months each in 3 States?
Isn’t WY were her dad lives?