Coolidge/Dawes '24
07-21-2013, 08:25 AM
Article here (http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/07/18/warlord-liz-cheney-taking-back-the-gop-from-rand-paul/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AWCBlog+%28Antiwar.com+Blog%2 9).
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A lot of people are up in arms over the announcement that Liz Cheney, daughter of war criminal Dick Cheney, will run against fellow Republican Mike Enzi for his Senate seat in Wyoming. Republicans are upset because it’s uncouth for a Republican to challenge an incumbent Republican in a primary. Democrats are revolted because, well, she's a Cheney.
At Salon, Alex Pareene calls Liz Cheney an "aspiring warlord," which is a wonderfully evocative description for a real neocon of neocons, and political celebrity because of her father who was the driving force behind the expanded executive powers and reckless foreign policy of the Bush years.
Rand Paul isn't a non-interventionist by any means, but he has deliberately disassociated himself with pro-threat inflation, pro-drone war, pro-Syria intervention, pro-foreign aid Republican dogma – and a good number of Republicans have followed him. This is unsettling to the neocons. And apparently Paul sees it this way too.
"When I heard Liz Cheney was running for Senate I wondered if she was running in her home state of Virginia," Paul said, seemingly as a zinger against Cheney’s targeting of the bystander Enzi. Paul also said, "I'll do anything I can to help [Enzi]. In fact, somebody asked me today if they could use my name, and I said I’d be happy to sign on and do a fundraiser for him."
As Chris Hayes says in the segment below, this "makes me think that he understands precisely what this is about."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_Rn4_n-bq_U
http://antiwar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/a_560x375.jpg
A lot of people are up in arms over the announcement that Liz Cheney, daughter of war criminal Dick Cheney, will run against fellow Republican Mike Enzi for his Senate seat in Wyoming. Republicans are upset because it’s uncouth for a Republican to challenge an incumbent Republican in a primary. Democrats are revolted because, well, she's a Cheney.
At Salon, Alex Pareene calls Liz Cheney an "aspiring warlord," which is a wonderfully evocative description for a real neocon of neocons, and political celebrity because of her father who was the driving force behind the expanded executive powers and reckless foreign policy of the Bush years.
Rand Paul isn't a non-interventionist by any means, but he has deliberately disassociated himself with pro-threat inflation, pro-drone war, pro-Syria intervention, pro-foreign aid Republican dogma – and a good number of Republicans have followed him. This is unsettling to the neocons. And apparently Paul sees it this way too.
"When I heard Liz Cheney was running for Senate I wondered if she was running in her home state of Virginia," Paul said, seemingly as a zinger against Cheney’s targeting of the bystander Enzi. Paul also said, "I'll do anything I can to help [Enzi]. In fact, somebody asked me today if they could use my name, and I said I’d be happy to sign on and do a fundraiser for him."
As Chris Hayes says in the segment below, this "makes me think that he understands precisely what this is about."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_Rn4_n-bq_U