Rand made a cutting, sarcastic remark about the possibility Ted Cruz might run for P.
Now he does same about the prospective primary challenge in a Senate race in which he isn’t even involved?
What gives?
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?
Trying to keep the field clear for himself? But if that’s it, he’s a real rookie at it, needs to study the Romney method a bit. He’s leaving too many fingerprints.
BTW, I don’t get the problem with Cheney’s residency. Dick Cheney & family, I thought, had deep roots in WY. I lived there for a while, and folks there seemed rather proud of the Cheney connection.
As for Enzi, he’s being accused of being lazy, but that’s just par for the course with typical WY pols. It’s built into the system out there. State legislature only meets like half a year, maybe less, and the rest of the time they haves real jobs or other non-governmental ways of spending their time. The US Congress should take a cue and get a life outside of DC.
Dick Cheney backed Trey Grayson against Rand Paul.
Look for Rick Perry to support Enzi too, as Dick Cheney backed Kay Barely Republican against him.
It’s the first of many proxy battles between the neo-con Cheney wing of the GOPe and the upstart (small l) libertarian neo-Paulian challengers.
This is a battle between the NeoCons and the Isolationists and the Realists.
Rand Paul recently showed his hand and is trying move public opinion against intervening in Syria and the NeoCons are big supporters of intervening in Syria.
So the NeoCons mounted an attack on Paul in the recent NRO article in which they were talking about Paul's aide who has a questionable history of being in the League of the South and might be a racist.
Liz Cheney is a NeoCon and she is running for the Senate seat in Wyoming and she/the NeoCons want replace Enzi because he is a foreign policy realist.
Because the NeoCons attacked Rand Paul in the National Review article, he is responding by attacking Liz Cheney.
“Rand made a cutting, sarcastic remark about the possibility Ted Cruz might run for P.
Now he does same about the prospective primary challenge in a Senate race in which he isn’t even involved?
What gives?”
Rand is a libertarian stooge that is what gives. He has disdain for social conservatism, anybody against Muslim terrorism, and people who might take him on in a republican presidential race. Guy is self-absorbed just like Marco Rubio and Ron Paul. He might even support Amnesty under the right conditions as Rand had his own plan that he was crafting in march. Rand is a mess. He is basically appeasing his fathers supporters.
He seemed OK for a few minutes until he started to act a bit too libertarian for my tastes.