Former
Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney has announced her bid
for the US Senate to represent her home state of Wyoming. As a result,
Fox News terminated her position as
a political analyst, a position she has held since January 2012. Rather
than shady shenanigans, however, the reason for her termination was to
avoid a conflict-of-interest, and the practice of terminating contracts
when political analysts announce candidacy for office is used by most
cable news networks. Cheney will be running against Republican Senator
Mike Enzi for the seat, who announced his candidacy on Tuesday
afternoon.
Enzi is against all forms of abortion, voted for measures to ban gay
marriage and flag desecration, is a strong supporter of gun rights,
supports partial privatization of Social Security and has voted against
expanding Medicare. He takes a hard view on immigration, has voted to
uphold the PATRIOT Act, and opposed any reduction in wiretapping and
extending rights to Guantanamo Bay detainees.
To compare, Cheney co-founded the non-profit group Keep America Safe
which supports keeping Guantanamo open, called DOJ attorneys terrorist
sympathizers for defending Gitmo detainees, supports gay marriage and
the repeal of DADT, defended Halliburton, and has a track record of
lying or distorting the facts when discussing the Obama and Bush
administrations such as claiming that Obama has engaged in a "strategic
retreat" from the war on terror.
According to former Republican Senator Alan K. Simpson in an
interview last week, “[it will be] the destruction of the Republican
Party of Wyoming if she decides to run and he runs, too. It’s a disaster
— a divisive, ugly situation — and all it does is open the door for the
Democrats for 20 years.”
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