Monday, November 25, 2013

The WY GOP Senate Primary

If you are interested in the contest Liz Cheney is making of the GOP senatorial primary in Wyoming, a blog post on The Fix, the Washington Post's online political forum provides a relatively balanced overview.

If there has been any Republican dissatisfaction with the job being done by incumbent Mike Enzi (R-WY), I haven't heard about it. The consensus seems to be that Liz Cheney decided she'd like to be a U.S. Senator quite soon, and that she'd be well advised to trade on the Cheney "brand" which has cachet in Wyoming. The carpetbagger accusation is relatively apt in her case.

Ideologically and practically, there is no reason to replace a relatively senior Mike Enzi with a freshman Liz Cheney. As we noted earlier, Cheney's only advantage over Enzi is her celebrity value to TV news show guest schedulers. That is a slender reed upon which to hang a candidacy.