Two Republican’s having a political knife fight hits the news….
Rand Paul began his offensive against Liz Cheney as soon as a Senate seat opened up in May, reigniting a years-long feud between their families and warring wings of the Republican Party.
The Kentucky GOP senator quickly made contact with Cynthia Lummis, a former conservative House member, to encourage her to run for the Senate seat opening up in Wyoming now that Mike Enzi was retiring.
Lummis soon jumped into the race, leaving Cheney, her successor in Congress, with a tough choice: Embark on a brutal primary against Lummis or take the safer route and seek her fortune in House leadership.
That was only the beginning of Paul’s slugfest with Cheney, one that included a fierce back and forth over Twitter on foreign policy, dueling Sunday show appearances and a highly unusual phone call from Paul into a Casper, Wyo., TV station to assert that Wyoming Republicans are “tired” of Cheney’s support for nation-building abroad.
Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican in just her second term, responded with her own show of strength. She said she was looking forward to having dinner with President Donald Trump that evening.
The assertion from Cheney that Paul has surrendered “to terrorists” and Paul’s response that Cheney is a “NeverTrump warmonger” was, in the words of Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), “weird, wild stuff.”….
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It is “weird,wild stuff” because Rand Paul is sort of a “weird, wild guy.”
I LOVE seeing the GOPer’s actually throwing down at EACH OTHER!
Time was, as we greybeards still recall, that Kentucky Republican meant someone who embraced bipartisanism and moderation on racial issues, such John Sherman Cooper or Thruston B. Morton (both of whom the Civil Rights Act of 1964).
I was not aware that Liz Cheney was the #3 Republican in the House. I was clueless to that fact. Sounds like the Cheney name (deceptiveness, corruption and unnecessary war) is still highly regarded in the GOP.
Like Trump?