I don’t think it is a new tradition. It has been around as long as the Nation and predates it elsewhere as well.The Lee family, the Adams family, the Frelinghuysens of New Jersey, all through the previous centuries.
Posted on 11/02/2013 11:54:13 AM PDT by ClaytonP
he Wyoming GOP primary campaign is already shaping up to be a scorched-earth affair, demonstrating the kind of senator Liz Cheney would likely be.
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Other Wyoming politicos who’ve tried to stay above the fray have found themselves drawn into the feud, notably Alan Simpson, the former Republican senator known for his crotchety demeanor. The Cheneys and the Simpsons were at a charity gala in Cody, Wyoming, when Lynne Cheney—Liz’s mother, Dick’s wife, and a writer of racy novels—allegedly approached Simpson and told him to “shut your mouth.” Simpson’s daughter-in-law posted about the incident on her Facebook page, and the local press picked up the story. Lynne issued a statement asserting that the interaction “simply did not happen.”
This denial apparently sent Simpson into a rage.
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Exactly. She will reverse her decision quicker than Obama did and anyone who believes otherwise is fooling themselves. Liz Cheney is pro homosexual marriage, do not let her words to get elected fool you. I am tired of people running on the family name, already multi millionaires. Keep the guy already there until a true hard working tea partier can replace him.
Remember how Barack Obama was against gay marriage before the election? If elected, Liz will do a Barack Obama and switch positions. Her family is not socially conservative, and I cannot believe that she is either. I cannot remember or find a single time when she was against gay marriage before this election cycle. Can anyone?
See #33. I watch some TV out of Wyoming, and Alan Simpson is now one of these ‘hurt in an accident’ TV commercial lawyers. ‘Burg Simpson’ or something like that.
Liz is pro-amnesty running against a legitimate anti-amnesty conservative.
She should have run in purple VA, her real home, where her politics match the citizenry.
I think it got lost in the transliteration.
methinks you got the wrong daughter. If not I would vote for any conservative
Mike Enzi is a slid conservative Senator, supported by Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. Keep him!
Liz is a joke. She’s running in a State she isn’t from, and under name that isn’t hers. She should be running in Virginia under her actual married name.
Just another GOPe nightmare. Not to mention her fingerprints are all over everything going so wonderfully in the moslem world. She’s no better than Hillary suddenly deciding to run in New York.
Weirdness runs in that family. Id hate to see her win.
He is the spit 'n image of his chum Al Gore right down to the fact that both their fathers voted against the Civil Rights Act and both have lived a life of venomous guilt ever since.
Gore stumbled and bumbled his way into and out of politics, changing his persona every week or with every speech, whichever came first, 'cause he couldn't bare the stink of the Old Man still about him.
And Simpson, the grand cornpone wit of Washington---dear God the mincemeat a Twain would have made of him---has spent fifty years loathing no one so much as a conservative Republican precisely because all his fathers' conservative colleagues recognized the Old Bigot for what he was.
He was the angry coddled son of a foolish prominent man and remains so to this day.
From Wikipedia:
In Simpson’s words to this Court, “I was a monster.”
One day in Cody, Wyoming, when Simpson was in high school, he and some friends “went out to do damage.” They went to an abandoned war relocation structure and decided to “torch” it. They committed arson on federal property, a crime now punishable by up to twenty years in prison if no one is hurt, and punishable by up to life in prison if the arson causes a person’s death. Luckily for Simpson, no one was injured in the blaze.
Simpson not only played with fire, but also with guns. He played a game with his friends in which they shot at rocks close to one another, at times using bullets they stole from the local hardware store. The goal of the game was to come as close as possible to striking someone without actually doing so. Again, Simpson was lucky: no one was killed or seriously injured.
Simpson and his friends went shooting throughout their community. They fired their rifles at mailboxes, blowing holes in several and killing a cow. They fired their weapons at a road grader. “We just raised hell,” Simpson says.
Federal authorities charged Simpson with destroying government property and Simpson pleaded guilty. He received two years of probation and was required to make restitution from his own funds – funds that he was supposed to obtain by holding down a job.
These modern “dynasties” have no connection to the brilliant minds of the Lee and Adams families.
Hear Rush interview Dick Cheney within the past two weeks. I was very disappointed with some oh his comments. Dick sounded very much like the master GOPe RINO. He has been in politics a very long time and most of that time he was in positions of influence. Like all Commies/RINOs his love of BIG G’ment showed in the interview.
He did that in a rural area of the west in the late 1940s. Boys will be boys.
But you forgot the afterwards part. He’s earned a lot more respect than the Cheney brat.
“Alan Simpson graduated from Cody High School in Cody, Wyoming, in 1949 and attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1950 for a postgraduate year. He graduated in 1954 from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Science degree and in 1958 with a Juris Doctor. In 1954 he married the former Susan Ann Schroll, who was a fellow UW student from Greybull, Wyoming. He served in the United States Army in Germany from 1955 to 1956 with the 10th Infantry Regiment, Fifth Infantry Division and with the 12th Armored Infantry Battalion, Second Armored Division.”
I fear that the standard for Lying set by Obama may be at a new high. Not that is is something new or that only the Commies/RINOs and Dems partake in.
I don’t think it is a new tradition. It has been around as long as the Nation and predates it elsewhere as well.The Lee family, the Adams family, the Frelinghuysens of New Jersey, all through the previous centuries.
Liz Chaney’s BFF is Bill Krystal, Oft seen on Fox NEWs Perhaps a writer for what publication?) He was the first who said that Sarah Palin would be a great choice for McCain’s running mate. McCain must have seen the same Fox show I saw. Krystal and Liz worked hand in hand in building a web site together. Sorry, name escapes me Frankly, Liz is one sharp cookie and has a lot of political sense. Not to take anything away from her opponents. A shame she must carpetbag her way into politics much like Bill’s Hill.
You got a freepmail response boy
Wait till Malaria and Sharia Obama run for office.
Who cares about Alan Simpson. A POS Rino who teamed up with Boling to try to push another progressive agenda on the american public.
I like Enzi. I have an Enzi bumper sticker on my truck.
Alan Simpson Slams Fellow Republicans For Unwillingness To Compromise
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/27/alan-simpson-republicans_n_1549604.html
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