Posted on 07/17/2013 1:17:16 PM PDT by cotton1706
Michael Steele on Wednesday said Liz Cheney’s decision to challenge fellow Republican Sen. Mike Enzi for his Wyoming Senate seat will be disastrous and split the party.
The former Republican National Committee chairman told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner that he thinks former Sen. Alan Simpson was right to call the situation a “disaster.”
“I think he’s right, I think it’s going to open a lot of fissures in the party. I think this is an insurgent move by Cheney,” Steele said Wednesday on “Now with Alex Wagner.”
Steele criticized Cheney’s comments that Enzi has compromised too much and “gone along to get along.”
“When have people gone along to get along in Washington in the last four or five years?” Steele said. “This is clearly more of a personal opportunity to, thinking there’s an opening here, and, you know, it’s going to be tough.”
Agreeing with fellow panelist E.J. Dionne, Steele said he hopes race is a chance for rank and file Republicans to fight back against a Washington tea party.
“I hope they do. I hope the Enzi team really come prepared with a strong A game, because this could be a seminal moment for a longer conversation,” Steele said.
“I believe the RNC may have supported the incumbent sitting US Senator Murkowski against the republican primary winner Miller.”
Right. The REPUBLICAN national committee supported the INDEPENDENDT candidate and not the REPUBLICAN. They’re loyalties are always with establishment candidates, incumbents or the more moderate candidate in an election (which usually fits all three). Specter, Crist, Castle, Bennett, Lugar, Hatch, Dewhurst, Scozzafava, etc.
Liz Cheney is FOR GAY MARRIAGE because her DEVIANT SISTER is a LESBIAN!!! SAY NO TO LIZ....(and I was one of her biggest fans before this)!
Really?? Yopu want ANOTHER PRO=GAY MARRIAGE Senator in Liz Cheney?? NOT ME .....ENOUGH DEVIANT BEHAVIOR.
Well then hopefully Cheney’s candidacy will serve to weaken Enzi in the public mind and cause some other conservative to rise up and they can battle it out in the primary. It’s not like a democrat is going to win in Wyoming.
Wish we could get these half-hearted conservatives to join the Democrat party and put their time, effort, energy and money into improving it instead of continually moving the Republican party further left.
A Democrat could win under the right circumstances. Ex-Gov Dave Freudenthal won two terms. An ugly battle between Enzi and Cheney could see him take the office if the Dems recruited him.
Michael Steele is a worthless RINO who has gone over to the other side. Liz Cheney a true conservative would be a good replacement for the current go along get along who wants to try to compromise with the Marxists. Go Liz!
I don't care WHAT the USSC did erroneously (like Anchor Babies, Faggot/Dyke marriages, etc.), it still is folks who STAY TRUE TO THEIR PRINCIPLES that we need, and if they cannot do that, they don't belong on the Ballot as Conservatives.
There is the tradition among party officials of supporting incumbents ala Arlen Specter against Pat Toomey here in Pennsylvania.
Well now we got Toomey as our senator and there ain’t much difference.
Of course they are but there are many ways to get where you want to go. Sometimes you have to strike while the iron is hot. Sounds like the Cheney situation to me.
A Democrat hasn's been elected to Congress from Wyoming in 35 years. I don't see that changing regardless of who wins the nomination.
And sometimes you have to strike when you think you can waltz into a Senate seate without having to work for it. That's what the Cheney situation sounds like to me.
Never say never. WY Democrats came VERY close to knocking off Rep. Barbara Cubin in 2006 (1,000 vote margin). The advantage Democrats have is that they can conceivably win ANY House seat in the nation under the right circumstances (they have done so in Utah, as an example). Republicans cannot, as there are perhaps 100-150 House seats that have a racial and/or ideological barrier.
Yeah well Cubin always did piss people off, and walking across the stage during a televised debate and saying to your opponent, "If you weren't in that wheelchair I'd slap your face" does tend to alientate the electorate. I doubt that Enzi would do that and I would hope that Cheney wouldn't as well. But you never know.
The advantage Democrats have is that they can conceivably win ANY House seat in the nation under the right circumstances...
The Senate is a little different, and in order to do that they need a candidate, and I don't see who they have in their bullpen who could knock of Enzi. And if Cheney did win then I still don't see that fracturing the party enough to hand it to the opposition. Not with Obama heading the show.
The Dems would be smart to run ex-Gov. Dave Freudenthal. In an ugly Enzi-Cheney showdown, Freudenthal could pick up the votes of the disgruntled supporters of either side.
Freudenthal was an early and vocal backer of Obama in 2008 and that could cost him in Wyoming nowadays.
Well, he shouldn’t have been able to win the Governorship on party demographics alone and as a Clinton appointee (U.S. Attorney), yet he did. I’m just saying that with an ugly primary on the GOP side, it can open opportunities for the opposition.
“Cheney was my hero, as well, until he started with the pro-homo stuff. Yuck!”
Liz is a carbon copy of her father on those issues.
Liz is a carbon copy of her father on those issues.
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Yep!
I’m not privy to Ms Cheney’s plans but if she thinks a Senate race isn’t a tough go, she doesn’t deserve to be a senator....and probably won’t be.
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