Liz Cheney quitting US Senate bid

msn.com ^ | 01/06/2014 | Donna Cassata

[SoConPubbie]

Liz Cheney, oldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is ending her bid to run for Wyoming's U.S. Senate seat, citing health issues in her family.

WASHINGTON — Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said Monday she is abandoning her effort to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming.

Cheney cited "serious health issues" that "have recently arisen in our family" as the reason for her decision.

But her candidacy had raised hackles in the Republican Party and caused a public rift with her sister, Mary, a lesbian, over Liz Cheney's opposition to gay marriage.

In her withdrawal statement, Cheney did not mention those controversies.

"Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign. My children and their futures were the motivation for our campaign and they will always be my overriding priority," Cheney said. She did not specify those health issues.

She added: "As a mother and a patriot, I know that the work of defending freedom and protecting liberty must continue for each generation. Though this campaign stops today, my commitment to keep fighting with you and your families for the fundamental values that have made this nation and Wyoming great will never stop."

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Hopefully she figured out that the best way to help the cause is to train her sights on the DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!

[TomGuy]

Health issues: sick from low polling numbers and a lack of big money backers.

[sickoflibs]

OH Noes , say it ain’t so Liz!

Did sister Mary (and her wife) talk you out of it at your holiday dinner?

[DoodleDawg]

Health issues: sick from low polling numbers and a lack of big money backers.

More likely vision problems. She just couldn't see any way she was going to win.

[conservative98]

Hey Dick, Picking your daughter to run for the Senate was a mistake. That one I don’t think was well handled. Based on her background, she’d only been Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, for what, two years? I don’t think she passed the test.

[SevenofNine]

I think she citing health issues maybe it her father

I think also she can’t raised money

[MikeyB806]

“sickness in her family”

Well, duh, her sister has a mental illness, but she knew that before she decided to run.

[oldbrowser]

Did sister Mary (and her wife) talk you out of it at your holiday dinner?

This may be the illness to which Liz was referring.

That's too bad, I think she would have been a stronger presence for conservative ideals than Enzi.

[oldbill]

Right candidate, wrong state.

Should have been Virginia.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Did sister Mary (and her wife) talk you out of it at your holiday dinner?
......
This may be the illness to which Liz was referring.
That's too bad, I think she would have been a stronger presence for conservative ideals than Enzi. “

I expected nothing good from her.
I got the impression that she was playing the suckers and was not sincere. She blew the dog whistle after memorizing a few buzz phrases.

Liz like Dad is looking for more wars.

[sarasota]

Sounds like an upgrade from community organizer Obama.

[from occupied ga]

Sounds like an upgrade from community organizer Obama.

A dog turd on the sidewalk would be an upgrade from 0bama

[wyowolf]

Involving her daughter in Colorado... not at liberty to say more... but its not nice.

[smokingfrog]

[BillyBoy]

Admittedly, I voted for Bush/Cheney twice, and I have only one thing to say to Dick’s daughter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV0bqASKAY8

[DoodleDawg]

...As I have told many an aspiring candidate since, if you want to run for office you have to get out of D.C. and establish yourself someplace around the country where you may someday have the chance to run."

The problem was that Liz got out of D.C. and ran without first going through the "establish yourself" part.

[Parley Baer]

“Right candidate, wrong state.

Should have been Virginia”

Right, it should have been against a dimoKKKRAT.

[Bigg Red]

I expected nothing good from her.
I got the impression that she was playing the suckers and was not sincere.

(((
Same here. No more Bushs and no more Cheneys!

[silverleaf]

I hope Lynn and Dick are OK
God Bless them both