Aw puh-LEEZ, Wyoming!
Ms. Cheney, 46, is showing up everywhere in the state, from chicken dinners to cattle growers’ meetings, sometimes with her parents in tow. She has made it clear that she wants to run for the Senate seat now held by Michael B. Enzi, a soft-spoken Republican and onetime fly-fishing partner of her father.
But Ms. Cheney’s move threatens to start a civil war within the state’s Republican establishment, despite the reverence many hold for her family. ...NYT
Former Republican senator (icon?) says it a divisive, “ugly” situation. Simpson hasn’t been shy about expressing his disgust with the current Republicans’ partisanship. And the sitting senator, Mike Enzi, has been a good senator, willing to work like an adult in a responsible position. Reponsible Republicans don’t want to lose him.
What has startled some people here is not just the fact that Ms. Cheney is seemingly trying to nudge Mr. Enzi into retirement, but that she appears to be doing so with a hand from her father.
The former vice president and Mr. Enzi have been friends since the 1970s, when Mr. Cheney was Wyoming’s at-large congressman and Mr. Enzi was the mayor of Gillette. They became closer, Mr. Enzi recalled, over a shared passion: fly-fishing. The two were on the same team competing in a popular annual One Fly tournament — fishing with the same fly lure all day — in the Snake River.
But Mr. Enzi said he had not recently heard from the man he calls his “good friend.”..W.NYT
Would any American with knowledge of human relationships and honorable men trust Dick Cheney’s “friendship”?
Cross-posted from Prairie Weather