She is challenging the incumbent, Sen. Mike Enzi, who is (or was) a good friend of her father. Less than a year ago, Liz was saying that she wouldn't run if Enzi was going to seek another term, and she described him as "a terrific senator and a good friend."
Mike Enzi immediately received support from colleagues in the senate and a promise that the National Republican Senatorial Committee will back him.
Liz Cheney has a law degree from the University of Chicago, and she has worked as a lawyer for both the State Department and the Agency for International Development. Since her father's 2008 VP campaign, she has been a frequent commentor on tv news programs, where she has taken an often-outrageously conservative position.
She is already being criticized as a "carpetbagger," having never received a pay check in the state of Wyoming and lived all her adult life in Virginia. Now she's banking on her family's deep roots in Wyoming to run against a favorite son in a state where incumbents are usually not challenged.
Liz's tendency to speak nonsence is already evident in her statement, trying to position herself as more willing to go against President Obama's policies:
"I think it's time for us to say to ourselves, can we continue to go along to get along in Washington?"Can anybody, even the most radical right-wing conservative actually believe that the Republicans' problem in the senate is "going along to get along?" That is simply idiot-speak. The people of Wyoming are not that dumb. Obviously that is a jab at Enzi, who is known as one who will compromise to work out problems. That's what we need more of, not some opportunist riding on Daddy's coattails who has one song to sing. Mitch McConnell's downfall seems to prove that song is plunging in the charts.
I don't believe the people of Wyoming are going to take to Liz, no matter how much money her connections will pull in for her.
Ralph
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