Liz Cheney

Liz Cheney in 2013.

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Elizabeth Lynne "Liz" Cheney (1966–) is a daughter of Dick Cheney. She has held some positions within the Bush Administration in the State Department. No, she's not the lesbian one.^[1]

In January 2010, she followed in her father's august footsteps by taking a "Waaah, we're all going to die!" approach to the foreign policy of the 44^th president Barack Obama, to wit:

In plain English, this means that she disliked Obama's policy against torturing prisoners and his failure to invade Iran or nuke North Korea.

She thought the fact that then-Attorney General Eric Holder employed some lawyers who gave trials for terrorists at the Justice Department was absolutely treasonous.^[3] Even some conservatives called her out for that one.^[4]

She was the co-founder and co-chair of the now-defunct wingnut fear-mongering group "Keep America Safe,"^[5] along with Bill Kristol.^[6]

Failed Senate run[edit]

In July 2013, Cheney announced that she would be running for a seat in the U.S. Senate in Wyoming in 2014. As scary as the thought of another Cheney being in Washington is, she ran into several major problems. The most obvious one is that she was born in Wisconsin and never lived in Wyoming till late 2012, although she claimed that she didn't move for political gain.^[7] While Wyoming is about as solid red as states come, her opponent in the primary was Mike Enzi, a three-term incumbent with an extremely conservative voting record behind him.^[8]

This predictably led to her doing poorly in early polls.^[9] In November, with calling Enzi a RINO, a plainly-ridiculous assertion (and quite ironic in hindsight), and her mediocre poll results, Cheney decided to try to gain support by doing something so evil that her father never attempted to directly do, come out against gay marriage.^[10] This led to immediate backlash from almost everybody, especially her married lesbian sister Mary Cheney, who had previously helped re-elect Bush and threw Mittens, who wanted to amend the Constitution to ban all gay marriage, a $2,500 check back in 2012.^[11]

In early 2014, she gave up on running for Senate to serious health issues in her family.^[12]

She ran for Congress again in 2016 as a Representative and ended up winning. Cheney had no real opponents during her race since all of the more-or-less terrible Republicans in the primary couldn't match the former Vice President's daughter's name recognition, and with Wyoming being a wingnut state that no Democrat could've stood a chance either.^[13]

Stopped clock[edit]

She has called for the resignation of Iowa Representative and hardcore racist Steve King after he said that white supremacy isn't bad.^[14] Also, she was one of ten House Republicans to vote in favor of Donald Trump's second impeachment.^[15] Cheney was vice chair and one of two Republican members of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack investigated the 2021 U.S. coup attempt, but in 2024 it was reported that Cheney actively prevented the investigation into the role of Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the coup attempt.^[16][17]

However, Cheney's opposition to Trump's criminality had a cost in the deep-red state of Wyoming, and in 2022, she lost her re-election bid in the Republican primary to the Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman by a landslide.^[18]

In October 2022, Liz Cheney came forward to support Democratic candidate for Senate Elissa Slotkin in Michigan. This is the first known case of Liz Cheney siding with a Democrat in an election.^[19] In November 2022 Liz Cheney endorsed a second Democrat candidate named Tim Ryan over J. D. Vance in the 2022 Ohio Senate race.^[20]

In early September 2024, Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris for president over Donald Trump.^[21]

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