Liz Cheney is ending her campaign for Senate in Wyoming, the Republican announced in a statement early Monday morning.
Citing health concerns in her family, Cheney said the issues arising prompted her to end her GOP primary challenge to Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.).
“Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign. My children and their futures were the motivation for our campaign and their health and well-being will always be my overriding priority,” Cheney said in the statement.
Cheney pledged to keep working for her political values despite ending the campaign.
“Phil and I want to thank the thousands of people in Wyoming and all across the country who have supported my campaign. As a mother and a patriot, I know that the work of defending freedom and protecting liberty must continue for each generation. Though this campaign stops today, my commitment to keep fighting with you and your families for the fundamental values that have made this nation and Wyoming great will never stop.”
Late Sunday night, as news that Cheney was likely to drop out of the race swirled, two GOP sources said that a recent incident involving a member of Cheney’s immediate family prompted her to reconsider the race, among other factors.
Cheney announced a primary challenge to Enzi last July and raised more than $1 million for her campaign, largely from elite Republicans close to her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. She has consistently trailed Enzi in public polls.
Yeah okay, "family health concerns," that's a tried and true excuse for dropping out of a losing campaign.
Well this is surely good news for Wyoming as Liz Cheney appears to be just as divisive and ruthless as her old man. I mean to throw you own sister under the bus for a few more wingnut votes is cold.
And this is good news for the country because if any political dynasty needs to be stamped out before it begins it is the Cheney's.
Update: Well it appears that the family health concern is that her daughter has been diagnosed with diabetes.
I don't want to be an ass, but there are plenty of people who live very productive lives with diabetes, including numerous members of the Senate and House. With today's modern treatments it is usually more of an inconvenience than a debilitating disease.
In other words my bullshit detector is going off like gangbusters.
My god that is one homely woman. Now go home and cry on your daddy DICK'S bony old shoulder. Back to fox for you, bitch.
ReplyDeleteEver look at her in profile? She has a nose that rivals that of Cyrano de Bergerac.
DeleteAnd what is your point? people with certain types of noses can't govern? are stupid? what? There are a lot of things about Liz Cheney I don't like. Her nose is sort of irrelevant.
DeleteHa, ha "what is your point?" Nothing that a little tipnip wouldn't cure!
DeleteYour type is hypocritical and has absolutely no sense of irony (RW slams on the physical appearances of Hilary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Wendy Davis etc etc)
Seriously? Judging a political candidate by her appearance? All of you flying IM monkeys need to get a clue. You are just as bad as the mental midgets and motherfuckers that obsess and snark about the appearance of any and all female politicians and the female relatives of any politician. Remember when Rush Limbaugh called Chelsea Clinton the White House dog? Sadly, none of you self proclaimed "progressives" are any better. Disgusting, disgusting people.
DeleteI'm really glad to see Ms. Cheney drop out, but the comments about her appearance are out of line. Plus it makes those making the comments look small and petty, which makes it hard to take any substantive comments seriously.
DeleteI cant stand the Cheneys but she dropped out due to her kids health. Allegedly.
ReplyDeleteShe dropped out because she cast win.
DeleteYup, she realized she was going to get embarrassed in the primary. So now she can stop the charade of acting like she lives in Wyoming and not DC.
Delete"As a mother and a patriot, I know the work of defending freedom and protecting liberty must continue..." Who the hell talks like that? Other than Mrs. Todd Palin and her "charters of Liberty bs." People like Palin and Liz are such transparent liars and bs-ers it is sickening. I hope no one in her family is seriously ill but good riddance to her and her narcissistic campaign. Just like her father. A dick.
ReplyDeleteShe definitely took one out of the $arah Heath handbook. Watch for the same from the twit in '15 just as she did in '11. Her stupid pond scum will sigh, "awwwww, what a mom," and she'll keep grifting. $arah can NOT run for ANYTHING again.
DeleteIt seems Liz's daughter has diabetes. I wish the little girl well.
ReplyDeleteLuckily she comes from a wealthy family who probably has tony health insurance.
Isn't it wonderful how Liz doesn't want others less economically prosperous as her to have access to the same medical advantages her daughter has? And isn't it wonderful she can quit her "job" to be home with her. I'll bet she is against family leave too..
Angela, IF her daughter does have diabetes, it is the most lame excuse for dropping out of a race! Yes, diabetes is not a nice disease. There are 3 members of my family with it, one of whom is my 18 year old niece who has had it since age 10.
DeleteIt is treatable enough that dropping out of a race is stupid!
Think of another excuse stupid! You're just getting creamed and we all know it!
I wondewonder how soon the family will leave Wyoming? Will her husband STILL register as a voter in both states? Liz should ask Daddy
DeleteAs a mother and a patriot, I couldn't be happier than on hearing Ms. Cheney's decision.
ReplyDeleteShe and Sarah can join each other over in the quitter/losers corner.
OT, but what is it the reich wing stating that liberal women are ugly whilst conservative women are babes starting at a factor of ten ?!?
ReplyDeleteshallow i know , moreso i could care less, but cheney looks like she's been slammed with a baseball bat repeatedly
If indeed Liz Cheney does have a child with a health problem (she has five kids; the oldest is nineteen), in addition to the Cheney family blood fortune, she also has her husband's law firm benefits.
ReplyDeletePhilip Perry is a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP.
I must say, there's nothing like being forty points behind the incumbent to make a liberty 'n freedom-lovin' American M*O*M hide behind a sick kid.
So anyone setting up a pool for how long it will take to pack up the UHaul and high-tail it back to Virginia? Even if her daughter does have diabetes (which is entirely manageable), everyone knows Wyoming doesn't have a single doctor capable to treating juvenile diabetes. Best head back to the East Coast, Lizzy!
ReplyDeleteGuess how fast she'll move back to Virginia now, where she has spent most of her life.
ReplyDeleteRead this am that her youngest daughter (13) was recently diagnosed with juvenile diabetes and that her college aged daughter (19) has had some 'trouble' at college. Add those situations to the mess she created for herself politically and with her sister, it's no wonder she quit since she couldn't win.
ReplyDeleteWell, childhood diabetes is a serious situation. And so is having a sickly special needs infant with 3-4 other kids at home too. Kudos to the Mom who did put her political ambitions aside to focus on her kid.
ReplyDeleteIf Liz thought she had a chance to win, she wouldn't have dropped out.
DeleteI have family who lived in Wyoming, and people there don't take kindly to outsiders coming in and taking over.
DeleteEven though Daddy Dearest once represented them in Congress, Liz is considered a Virginian, transplanted there for strictly political purposes. I highly doubt that she would win over Enzi, who seems to be rather popular.
It's either because her poll numbers are so low or her husband got caught having sex with a man.
ReplyDeleteI read this morning that her serious health issue was that she was sick to her stomach because of how bad she is polling. Also saw a story comparing her quittyness to Caribou Barbie.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, this won't be the last we see of Liz Cheney.
ReplyDeleteTrue. She and Sarah can start a patriot -trip with their warrior-bodies and super faith and freedom values that is so awesome that Bristol says.
DeleteNow everyone wants to know what the troubling incident in college was. She should have just left it at the diabetes.
ReplyDeleteYes she should have, but she chose to throw it out there to distract from the fact that she would have gotten her butt handed to her in the primary. Geez, she's a quitter then she hides behind her kids. Hmmm. Who does that remind me of?
DeleteThe mama grizzly who rears up her head when you go after a defenseless child?
DeleteThe Cheneys married in 1993. There are 5 children all under the age of 22. Diabetes at such a young age is non-trivial.
ReplyDelete13 is not "such a young age."
DeleteAnd humans who are 18 years and older are adults, not children.
Cheney's daughters are not children. The oldest is nearly 20 and the youngest is 13. I know someone whose child was diagnosed with diabetes at age 6. She's now 22. Her mother didn't quit her job to fawn over her. She continued to work, and her daughter had a normal childhood, managed her diabetes, and is now a productive adult. Liz Cheney is a typical Republican quitter. Republicans always play victim and blame others for their failings. In this case, Cheney used her own child as a scapegoat.
DeleteSantorum kept campaigning while his daughter was in the hospital.
ReplyDeleteCheney is a fucking pathetic lying scumbag.
She wanted to win BADLY and is using her kids as a shield.
Fucking pathetic just like Palin.
LOSERS!!!!!!
Palin didn't blink and jumped at the chance to neglect her special needs infant for a VP job, even though she didn't know exactly, what the job was also.
Deleteaw hell, I was diagnosed with diabetes 4 years ago, I'm a healthy 48 yo man, adopted, so not sure if it was in my DNA, but I take my meds, and live like I always did. This is a world class cop out, besides, if she really cared about her family, why would she have run in the first place, unless it was to make money from donors...
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You have Type 2 Diabetes not Type 1. Totally different disease
DeleteBitch couldn't handle the concept of having one in the "L" column.
ReplyDeleteI imagine she's going to sell that Jackson Hole place soon. I wonder if she had installed the man safe for daddy yet.
Look at her teeth in that photo. I'm surprised that w/the Cheney money that braces weren't obtained! Probably speaks to why she doesn't smile much!
ReplyDeleteAs to getting out of the race in Wyoming due to her daughter being diagnosed w/diabetes, I say hog wash! She pulled out because she knew she was going to lose by a bunch and could not handle the embarrassment!
The Cheney handle is as toxic as is the Palin name! The kiss of death is associated w/anyone attached to either!
they're exactly like her dad's, darth, teeth...but it's true, both girls went to CC, one of the most expensive colleges in the west but they can't afford braces...
DeleteShe'll still rake it in on the Sunday talk-shows and other right outlets.
DeleteHeads up on a new apologia from the RWNJs for Sarah Palin, Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteIt's covered nicely by Jason Easley at PoliticusUSA, but I'd like your unique take on what the idiocracy are trying to do: whitewash yet another stupid reaction from Palin.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/01/06/conservatives-claim-rachel-maddow-sarah-palin-martin-bashir-fired-msnbc.html
Seriously, is there ANYTHING these nutbags don't let die a natural death? Zombie right wing stupidity, compounded.
Diabetes, a totally manageable disease for a teenage girl. Sounds like Liz caught a serious case of Can't-Win-Itis.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, some mothers won't even give up on their crackpot politic careers when there's a child with Down Syndrome in the family. Republican women are so... interesting.
The Book That's Causing Panic At Fox News
ReplyDeleteGabriel Sherman's The Loudest Voice Will Be Released On January 21
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/06/the-book-thats-causing-panic-at-fox-news/197440
Fox viewers cannot read more than a sentence at a time, so NO book is going to alter how they think.
DeleteAnd those of us who CAN read, already know that Fox is nothing less than a complete fraud...but it may be entertaining for us to see the inside poop on just what an evil place it is, behind the scenes at Propaganda Central.
Lots of people have live fine lives with diabetes. Nonetheless it is a serious disease, and despite some familiarity with it from the news, I would want time to get up-to-speed on the issue. The best treatments often take significant lifestyle changes that take time to learm and implement. And I have no idea how her child with diabetes is responding. Some people initially don't take the news too well.
ReplyDeleteI don't like Liz Cheney's politics, I'm glad she has dropped out (sort of, although I also wouldn't have cried at watching an internal GOP fight) and I don't think the illness is the only reason she is dropping out, but I cringe at the dismissiveness of the seriousness of the disease.
Diabetes can be quite serious.
Not nearly as serious as another Cheney in a position to fuck up the country.
DeletePerhaps you are right. I have no problem with skepticism that diabetes is the reason for Cheney's exit.
DeleteI simply am opposed to the suggestion that diabetes "is usually more of an inconvenience than a debilitating disease." Diabetes can be quite serious, so usually not at the beginning. So....
if you want to laugh at Liz Cheney, go ahead. I simply don't like the misinformation about how serious diabetes can be.
Yet, it's a condition that would automatically disqualify people (kids included) from the health care reform that was sorely needed in the so sorry date that was the Insurance Industry.
DeleteWould Liz Cheney have dropped out of the race because of her daughters diabetes, if she was a man?? I sincerely doubt it. Either she just showed the world she can't juggle being a mother( and all the unexpected problems that pop up) and being a senator . Or she just showed everyone she quit because she was polling so far behind. Either one proved she's a loser.
ReplyDeleteI thought she was a man.
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DeleteAnd here's MORE lying and hypocrisy from the so called 'Family Values' GOP. They are such lying scum.
ReplyDeleteFamily Values Republican Congressman Hid His Out-of-Wedlock Child and First Family
...First wife Marion Young got a $2,000-a-month lifetime alimony in exchange for her silence, so that Bill Young could play Family Values Patriarch for his Party.
Republican Congressman Bill Young was much revered in Republican circles. When he died, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and others waxed poetic about legendary “family man” Bill Young.
The Republican Congressman was awarded the Family and Freedom Award from the Christian Voice, a conservative Christian right political advocacy group and the biggest religious lobby. Indeed, the Christian Voice used to be housed at the Heritage Foundation back in the 70s and 80s.
No one mentioned that Young received this award just a year after he left his first wife and family, amid a scandalous but unreported affair that included the birth of a child. Out-of-wedlock.
No one talked about the fact that Bill Young abandoned the three children, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren from his first marriage to Marian Ford Young. No one even mentioned their names at his funeral on October 18, until one person took a brazen stand....
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/01/06/family-values-republican-congressman-hid-out-of-wedlock-child-family.html
You'd think with her family's money they could have afforded to give her braces as a child.
ReplyDeleteWord. Especially with all those ill-gotten, no-bid Halliburton contract, military industrial complex millions, ole war coward, seven deferral "Dickless" could have paid for some of those invisible braces that adults wear.
DeleteYeah, she has family health problems...mental health problems...it's rampant throughout the Cheney klan...
ReplyDeleteGood riddance, you POS
Liz made a spectacle of herself from day one. She got herself an image consultant, which didn't help her chances much when her residency was questioned. Then there was the public cat fight with her sister and sister in law, where she doubled down on her non approval of their "lifestyle" BUT she LOOOOOVES her nieces to peieces! Then there's the root of the problem, she's Liz Cheyney, which brings to mind her daddy, Dick. The Cheyney name doesn't have the same cachet it had for a few days after he became vice president.
ReplyDeleteI wish her daughter good health, Diabetes is manageable, but I doubt it's her real reason for dropping out of the race.
Oh well, Ditch the style consultant, it's back to wearing Daddy's slightly used blazers and onto Fox news or whatever it was you did before.
Is this real a surprise? She was a political lightweight, she had zero credentials to run and would have lost in a landslide and now she can add QUITTER to her resume, good riddance!
ReplyDeletePoor little lizzy. She is such a typical Cheney. For some reason (cognitive dissonance?)Big Daddy Dick has a high approval rating in Wyoming.This arrogant twat thought she could waltz in and using Big Dick's $$ and connections take a Senate seat from a popular incumbent.Guess she learned differently. HA HA!!
ReplyDeleteYou did not want to come off like an ass, but man did you. I have a 8 year old son that was diagnoised with Type 1 Diabetes a little over a year ago. I guess calculating how many carbohrydrates your son eats and injecting him with a needle full of insulin is just a tad inconvientant. Except that you have to do it everytime he eats, every day, every night, for the rest of his life. Along with this he needs to check his blood sugar by pricking his fingers with a lancet and then test his blood in the modern technology called a meter. If his blood sugar is to high, just simply give him more insulin. And he its not like too much insulin can hurt him. Oh right it can, it can put him into a coma or kill him. But that is just a minor inconvience. Then also why your son is sleeping his blood sugar can drop to dangerous levels cuase he rode his bike or went for a swim earlier that day. So a parant of a type 1 diabetic religiosily wake up in the middle of the night to check their childs blood sugar. Basically the parent of a young child of a type 1 diabetic is the child's pancerous. The disease never takes a vacation and needs to be managed every minute of every day of the child's life. So Mr. Moral Compass you just made yourself a Giant ASS in my eyes.
ReplyDeleteOh just so you know your facts, there are no known current members of the US House or Senate that are Type 1 diabetics or have a child with Type 1 diabetics. I know this as every year JDRF goes infront of congress to ask for funding for science grants to help find a cure for "this little inconvience"
Thank you for educating people about Type 1 Diabetes. In addition to what you have said Type 1 Diabetes has nothing to do with diet. That would be Type 2. I knew nothing about Type 1 until it happened to our family. You are 100% correct in saying to care for a child with Type 1 is a full-time job and worry. I pray for a cure so that my young child may wake without having to test and inject. I pray for a cure so that my child may sleep without me having to worry if she wakes up. Type 1 children have this disease for life! I am optimistic that there may be a cure in my child's lifetime and I am optimistic that the insulin AFREZZA would allow my child to inhale insulin instead of poking herself each time will be approved this year!
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