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You didn’t answer my question. You just repeat your unfounded, party-hack assertion.

I live in Wyoming. I know a little bit about the politics of the state. It is predominately Republican, but when the Republicans run a really poor candidate, there becomes an opportunity for the right Democrat to win elections. There are counties where, for historical reasons, Republicans aren’t seen in a favorable light (eg, Johnson County, owing to events in 1892). There have also been times when the political winds shifted and shifted hard for the Democrats - eg, the 1930’s.

The problem here is that Cheney knows NOTHING about the issues that are important in Wyoming elections. Cheney has made a name for herself on talking-head shows, yammering about this, that and some other national security or international issue. That’s nice, but that isn’t going to win any election in Wyoming. Most people in Wyoming aren’t going to be dazzled by a neo-con interventionist. People in Wyoming are old-school Republican - isolationist. As soon as she opens her yap claiming that we need to do “more” in the middle east than Obama is, the immediate reaction of most people in Wyoming will be “No, we need to do less.”

Next we have her decision to plop her pampered little buttocks down in Jackson, which is seen in the rest of Wyoming as the “cancer” infecting the state. She and her husband have more than sufficient money and a lack of prior property connections (ie, no family ranch or farm to “come back to”) that they could have purchased a home anywhere in the state. Where would have been a good place to buy and not be seen as a carpetbagger? Casper or Cheyenne. Casper would be the best place to locate, because for retail politics it is most central to Wyoming and she could drive to any corner of the state in less than a day, and has an airport where she could get flights out of the area.

Did she do that? No. She goes to the Jackson area. She not only goes to the Jackson area, she buys outside of Jackson, where the prices are even higher, and it is more remote to do retail politics from than Jackson. Message: She intends to run a completely remote-control campaign. Second message: She’s not “one of us.” She’s one of the hob-nobbing elites who fly into and out of Jackson, not bothering to drive through the rest of the state. She’s like a bunch of Republicans and Democrats who have tried to run campaigns from Jackson - and failed. NB - I’m on pretty firm ground on this. Other people with lots of money and big plans have tried to run for elections to state-wide or national offices out of Jackson. They almost all fail, regardless of party. The only one to succeed recently is our current governor, who could honestly claim “roots” to his grandfather’s ranching operation in the Jackson area, was born there and sold the ranch in 2003 for over $100 mil. Even with all that, it wasn’t a cake-walk for Mead, even with the amount of money he spent on the campaign. People in the rest of the state Do. Not. Like. People. From. Jackson.

I should also note that residency in Wyoming is a more complicated issue than in other states. She can’t even apply for a in-state hunting or fishing license yet. She’s not lived in the state long enough. And yet, she’s claiming she’s lived in the state long enough to run for Senate. People have already started noting this with rather acerbic wit: She can’t apply for an in-state tag, but she thinks she’s been in the state long enough to run for election.

Now, with all of that as background, we have a potential election where we have a sitting GOP senator who is pretty good on all the issues that matter to people in Wyoming vs. a DC socialite, neo-con and lawyer.

People in Wyoming prefer candidates who have some experience on them. Enzi has been a mayor (Gillette) and worked for the DOI on a coal advisory committee. Enzi knows coal, and coal is a Big Friggin’ Deal in Wyoming politics and economics. Cheney knows nothing about the coal business or the regulatory issues. Freudenthal also knows quite a lot about the importance of coal to Wyoming and the regulatory issues.

Freudenthal has quite a bit of experience on him, and was born in the same town (Thermopolis) as Enzi. He’s got a track record of financial conservatism, fighting the feds on the wolf issue, being a proponent for coal, CBM and oil development, recognizing the wind-power issue isn’t all it is cracked up to be, etc. Cheney has none of that.

And the Cheney name in Wyoming isn’t quite what you think it is. Especially as more and more comes out about the NSA’s eavesdropping on everyone, and Cheney’s involvement in starting that program rolling.

If Cheney beats Enzi in the primary (which I highly doubt), if Dave gets into the election, she’s toast.