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Cheney’s salvo at Paul drew fire from the lone declared challenger in the GOP primary for Cheney’s at-large Wyoming congressional district.
Rod Miller tore into Cheney in a phone interview with The Intercept. He objected both to the incivility of accusing a senator of sympathizing with terrorists, and her advocacy for torture.
“Whether or not you agree or disagree with Rand Paul, he’s a sitting United States senator and he represents the people of his state, and he should be accorded respect and civility due his position in the Senate,” Miller said. “And for Cheney to tee off on him and to accuse him of language like that — in my mind, it’s another step towards what I consider destructive polarization of our political lives today.”
Cheney’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
The people of Wyoming, Miller continued, don’t believe the government should be able to torture people.
“We’re a really red state. We’re crusty, old conservative cowboys and miners, and we’re rough and tough and opinionated, but we are not torturers,” he said. “To have our at-large congresswoman, our only member of the U.S. House of Representatives defend torture indicates to me that she doesn’t know the people of Wyoming as well as I do. Because we’re not the state of torture. Patriots? Yes. Support the military? Yes. But torturers? No.”
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