Liz Cheney as the GOP future: A big step up from Palin, at least
By David Neiwert Tuesday Jul 14, 2009 3:00pm
Liz Cheney told the Washington Times that she might consider a run for some kind of political office, which was the shoe we've all been waiting to drop since we started seeing her face over all the cable channels the past couple of months:
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that running for political office is on her horizon.
"It's something I very well may do," said Elizabeth "Liz" Cheney, a lawyer and State Department appointee who has worked on two Republican presidential campaigns.
This of course set the cable heads who've had her on previously to chattering, including Chris Matthews, and she appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News program and answered the question noncommittally. Uh-huh.
Now we're waiting for the other shoe to drop, which will be for Cheney to be declared one of the "fresh upcoming faces" for the GOP as it struggles to redefine itself in the post-Bush era. Nothing like a Cheney for that task, eh?
On the other hand, now that a majority of Republicans now think Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president, they need to start looking ahead. And for all her less-appealing qualities -- particularly the sneer she shares with her father -- she is at least seemingly competent and capable and reasonably intelligent. Which makes her a big improvement on Palin right away.
One certainly can see what Republicans would like about her: As you can see from the rest of the Hannity segment, she was out there touting her charge that the looming possibility of torture investigations proves "we can't trust Democrats with national security".
In other words, she fearmongers and lies and distorts right up there with the best of 'em. But then, she learned at the knee of one of the best.
Besides, I'm not sure that it's altogether a bad thing to have such a vivid reminder of the manifest failures of Bush/Cheney conservatism as another scheming Cheney out there fronting for the GOP.
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is bound to be steeped in distortions, obfuscation, and downright dishonesty. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
This apple rolled down the tree and stayed at the base.
... came off the tree is because it's rotten and worm-eaten to the core.
And sour.
Let's make applesauce!
Lets make apple cider. We can name it after her dad.
We'll call it, Dickens Cider.
You know, on those cold winter nights.
Even the preachers wife likes some warm Dickens Cider on Sunday morning. I'm familiar with that "commercial". Too funny....
Thanks, I'm glad someone got it :)
No one seems to be watching the Sarah Palin video I keep pimping. I've watched it about 20 times. It's friggin' hilarious!!!
(It's in the Palin thread: "She's never leaving...")
I live in Korea, so I wouldn't know the commercial.
You're a pimp? Who'd a thunk it?
You dawg you. :)
liz is the anti-christ's child
like her father did.
And then made the guy apologize for catching a face full of buckshot.
No, Liz doesn't have THAT KIND OF PULL. She'll always be associated as the daughter of the Anti-Christ.
actually the tree does not fall far from the nuts.
Another Nazi.
got the snarl down quite right, yet. She does show a remarkable ability to memorize and repeat talking points.
I'll have to look up her qualifications...what college, what was studied, has she held office before? Does anyone outside of her family like her? Does she bleach her hair herself, or have it done at an expensive hairdressers' for $800.00? Is she going to get a nose-bob?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney
Elizabeth graduated from McLean High School in 1984. She received her bachelor's degree from Colorado College where she wrote her senior thesis, "The Evolution of Presidential War Powers," in 1988
http://www.slate.com/id/2210084/
By Zac Frank
Posted Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 1:00 PM ET
In 1988, while Dick Cheney was Wyoming's sole representative in the House of Representatives, his daughter's senior thesis was quietly published in Colorado Springs. The 125-page treatise argued that, constitutionally and historically, presidents have virtually unchecked powers in war. Thirteen years before her father became vice president, she had symbolically authored the first legal memorandum of the Bush administration, laying out the same arguments that would eventually justify Guantanamo and extraordinary rendition, wiretapping of American citizens, and, broadly, the unitary theory of the executive that shaped the Bush presidency
fil hussein oaks:
I'm surprised you were able find out anything about her. I would have that that here records would be redacted and/or pixelated...
Might be a few years before the name cheney is welcomed in America, but hell if they are considering Palin, Liz doesn't have as much baggage as Palin and she is smarter. On the other hand she isn't of much substance except to say, Daddy can do and has not done any wrong. This morning on Morning Joe, she kept repeating, We have kept the country safe. Like she was part of the administration. I know her dad got her a job in the white house but I doubt she did much of the "safety" stuff.
She wouldn't say if her dad did or did not put the lid on the CIA but she said if he did, it was legal. Why would she care if it was legal if he didn't do anything?
Intelligent? Maybe.
Reasonable? I don't f***ing think so.
she's not any more intelligent than Sarah and has the deficit of being the Dick's daughter... she's learned all about the game from big daddy and she thinks she's entitled to run for office?! WTF??? Amazing how much arrogance these crooks and liars have! And let's not forget the ignorance...
Hey! Someone has to keep the Bush-Cheney criminal organs of the US government alive, right Liz?
This is so much bigger now than a former unpopular president and his vice president. Not even those two have the power, corrupt or otherwise, to impede or obstruct justice, or to sway popular opinion, when it comes to the security of the US system of government.
Even the wingers will see that eventually.
... the GOP has three years and some to find someone even dumber, crazier and more corrupt than Palin. And the GOP loves those quasi-royal family dynasties (except when it's the Kennedys, of course).
Speaking of royalty
Kate (Catherine?), Elizabeth, and Grace; and two sons, Philip and Richard.
What kind of a coward hides out and sends his daughter to defend him? If what he did is on the up and up, why not come out and speak for himself.
deferrment dickless hid behind the wife and kids to stay outta Vietnam so this's nothing new.
and I don't think they will even like her...
At least Sarah Palin's, er, accomplishments are her own. Liz Cheney is nothing more than another in the seemingly endless line of Establishment figures who owe everything they have ever done to their birth or marriage.
Jeb and Liz, what a team!
...and Palin for Homeland Security. Oh joy!
Palin for the President's Department of Law.
now THAT'S funny!!!
Is the evil gene dominant or recessive? I don't think the country can take the chance either way.
Sarah is just dumb, and even taking into consideration the damage stupid can do, the Cheneys are all downright dangerous to the entire world.
Oh yeah, she can ride that wave of Cheney love sweeping the country all the way to the big time. She'll have to claim she was adopted.
It's hard to distance yourself from your dad.
I'm not sure anything is an upgrade when it comes to a Cheney. A Palin could accidentally start a war and at least be able to say sorry. A Cheney is heartless and will start a war just for the fun of killing.
One is cold blooded and one is dumb as a stump. Hmmm...Who to choose?
As long as someone else is doing the fighting and dying. I doubt that Liz has any more guts than her dad.
"The Assassin's Daughter", coming soon in paperback.
the baby Dick and Lynne conceived on purpose so his ass could get another deferment from serving in Vietnam?
She may have something to prove, but she can do it on someone else's watch.
WE DO NOT TORTURE. Oh wait...
she won't get the evangelical vote.
LIZ Cheney with MARY Cheney.
-- sneers well
-- lies with ease
-- lies with a straight face
-- can lie out of both side of mouth, at same time
-- loves distortion and fear-mongering
-- unflappable, even when caught in a lie
-- "family values" means protecting your daddy's crimes
Yes, she appears to have all the qualifications for Republican politics.
Plus she's never been in the military
America, we must see that this Dick is sent to jail, or throw out our Constitution. NEVER FORGET.
Stupid or evil? Choices, choices...
"It's something I very well may do," There's nothing "very well" about what you've done so far.
The US doesn't need another lying Republican to show the world so stay away if you really love your country.
God help us if Dark Dick's Daughter ever gets into the Senate or the house!
Who would ever in their right mind want to elect the daughter of the worst VP ever?? Since Dick Cheney is the worst VP ever, it's an insult to Aaron Burr who assassinated Alexander Hamilton.
Like daughter, like father!
Doesn't surprise me, you have to keep the evil in the government, right Dick? And Liz has proven the bile doesn't fall far from the tree.
The name Cheney is a real vote getter.....haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Cheney may not be a vote getter in the rest of the country but who knows what Wyoming would do. It would not take much money to buy daughter dear a house in Wyoming with the present housing market. Our former senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, proved you never have to live in the house to establish residency.
that being able to speak coherently should be a basic requirement for public office.
Meanwhile:
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/ex-fbi-agent...
Look out, Dave! The Troofers are back and you're outnumbered!
Sorry, but I don't see Liz Cheney as a step up from Palin. It's a lateral move at best.
Let's make a list of Republican woment hat aren't douchebags. I'll start.
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She can ask her father to help her select a Vice Presidential Running mate. That worked out so well the last time he vetted a VP for a guy. ;)
Should she run, here's a question i'd love to see answered by her on TV:
She's been talking nonstop about how if we only knew what SHE knows about torture and interregation programs, we'd all shut up.
So, is her father telling her these top-secret, classified things? Does she have clearance to be hearing about this? Why are American citizens not equally privileged to know what SHE constantly brags about knowing? As if we need her to tell us about torture? Uh, who the hell are you again missy?
What a loathsome family, I must say.
Palin is so ignorant and proud of it. She's also selfish and a liar, but I don't think she has the evil in her that Liz has.
All these details about her are completely irrelevant. Her job isn't to win an election (though they'd take that if it fell in their laps), but instead to simply run for something. As long as she's a candidate for something somewhere (Prez 2012 would work best for this purpose) no one would dare try to prosecute her dear father.
Isn't Liz gay? I don't have a problem with that but I was under the impression that being gay wasn't a big vote getter with the repub base.
n/t
palin lies mostly about herself, dizzy lizzy cheney lies about everything.
..........it's the Torture Tools.
Maybe she'll be too busy visiting Dad in jail to run for office.
Like the Pinochets, Duvaliers, Kim Ills, etc., the progeny are as horrible as the parents.
She's just our all American monster daughter.
9-11 shows how much we can trust republicans with national security.
Yeah I figured that out but I have never seen a picture with Liz and her husband but I think that she (Liz Cheney) is a vile human being like her father.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
How do you spell N E P O T I S M ?
MiniMe: "They don't like to deal with the fact that the president and vice president keep America safe for 8 years" Excuse me you history revisionist sly bitch but didn't the greatest terrorist attack in US history happen on your father's watch? Tell a bold faced lie as the truth. MiniMe's a Cheney alright.
You can tell by watching and listing to that bitch that like her dad she is pure evil and rotten to the core. Can we preemptively throw that bitch in jail before she gets in a position to kill innocents based on lies like her father?
Dick and Liz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4sQI8Evfhc
Only not funny.
She's clean and pretty.
She SOUNDS smart.
She can LIE without flinching or blinking.
She will go FAR in the Republican Party.
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David,
Liz is NOT a step up...
... She's a side step farther right.
While both share extreme views on subjects(abortion, drilling, etc)...
... Liz was spawned from Cheney. Sarah only married an Alaskan separatist.
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choices, choices
I thought that the last eight years would be more then anyone could stand of bush/chenny?
I would never vote for a chenny or bush never for any reason never never never!!!
republicanism is a mental illness.
Liz,
Please go away....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/top-...
Any congressional district that would vote for Liz Cheney should be sealed off and quarantined.
Really? I don't see why. She may be more educated but that just makes her more dangerous, like her dad.
They're both lying ass-holes who should have nothing to do with politics.
or a hereditary aristocracy?
The day the republicans nominate a lez as their presidential nominee is the day I win all lotteries held the world over, get struck by lightning, survive a plane crash, a train crash and a car crash, hit a bases loaded 2 out ninth inning home run, and get married to Catherine Zeta-Jones. Yup, I can see all of that happening pretty soon.....
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