Cheney on daughter Liz: ‘I’d love to see her run for office some day.’
Cheney on daughter Liz: ‘I’d love to see her run for office some day.’
For the last few weeks, Liz Cheney, daughter of the former vice president, has been an omnipresent force in the news. For example, she made 12 appearances in the 10 days between May 12 and May 22, prompting many to wonder whether she jumpstarting her own political career. In an interview with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren that aired last night, Dick Cheney said he’d love to see his daughter follow in his footsteps:
VAN SUSTEREN: Think we’re going to see a lot of Liz Cheney in the next couple years? … It sounds like she’s getting involved in a lot lately.
CHENEY: Well, I would — you know, I’m, of course, a proud father, but I’d love to see her run for office some day. I think she’s got a lot to offer. And it’s been a great career for me. And if she has the interest, and I think she does, then I would like to see her to embark upon a career in politics.
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Reacting to unnamed Republicans who are pushing Liz Cheney to run for office, Steve Benen wrote, “I can’t help but find all of this rather ridiculous. For one thing, Liz Cheney’s penchant for dishonesty rivals that of her father’s. For another, the ‘Cheney’ name is not exactly a strong political ‘brand’ right now.”
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Speaking as a Democrat, I, too, would love to see Liz Cheney run for office someday.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 amThere is one really weird Oedipus complex going on between those two.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 amMe, I just wish Liz would go Cheney herself.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 amCheney on daughter Liz: ‘I’d love to see her run for office some day.’
– - So would I. I’d enjoy watching Liz Cheney campaign with her albatross of a father wrapped around her neck.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:29 amGOP = Goofs on Parade
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:29 amHere’s hoping that she picks up the baton of treason and war crimes from her father.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 amGod help us.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:33 amWhy should she run? Are the authorities after her? … Oh, wait, that’s MR CHENEY. Sorry.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 amWhat phoney baloney. And what’s up with the fireplace blazing in June. Give it a rest.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 amLiz Cheney is the mini-me version of dick the chicken hawk lying coward.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 amAnd what qualifications does she have to run for office? Just because her last name is Cheney does not make her qualified for anything other than a mouthpiece for her father.
Besides, this apple didn’t fall far from the tree. She is just as evil and vile as is her father.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 amLiz should run for cover.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 amCheney/Palin?
Cheney/(Jeb)Bush?
Cheney/Torquemada?
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 amAPEC not OPEC Says: And what’s up with the fireplace blazing in June.
That’s where they put Dick’s pants on fire.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 amShe’s young, and if she studies real hard she also may learn to be a pompous manipulative liar just like daddy.
Groan…is this the future of the GOP? Check with Limpbaugh to see if it ok with the Boss!
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 amAnd what office would that be? Governor of Kentorture?
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 amI’d love to see her run for office one day and get her ass whipped by some far left, liberal democrat!
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 amAPEC not OPEC Says:
….And what’s up with the fireplace blazing in June…..
Vampires like it cold; Greta probably just wanted to lift the chill a-bit.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:43 amPlease do run for office Liz Liar Cheney. She’ll go down just like failin’ Palin. What universe do the Cheneys reside in mentally? They have the audacity to think Americans would vote for this criminal?
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 amcopy check – sentence 2 – need a verb.
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so, yeah, she’s sitting next to him (ready with the paddles, no doubt), and he’d say anything different??? sure…
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 amInteresting to see how Greta is racking up ‘comfy chair’ interviews with the most prominent GOPers.
Is Greta trying to become a right-wing Barbara Walters?
If so, I hope she’s had the business sense to turn obsessing-over-missing-blond-teenage-girls-for-personal-profit into a media-franchise.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 amI would love to see her run too…from what I won’t say…
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 amhormiga brava chavez Says:
Please do run for office Liz Liar Cheney. She’ll go down just like failin’ Palin.
Her electability would depend on where she has residency; if in right wing Wyoming, she’d have a good chance.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 amThe Cheney’s are expert at changing residency to suit their corrupt needs.
Cheney on daughter Liz: ‘I’d love to see her run for office some day.’
And I’d love to see her visiting you in Leavenworth …..DICK
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 amObviously the cow doesnt’ fall far from the bull.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 amHmmmm,
Lynne writes Porn.
Dick tortures & shoots people.
What does Liz do, draw & quarter disabled children?
…and then along came Mary…
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 ameffboste Says: Having not found a link to 9/11, does this confession make the invasion of Iraq an illegal war crime?
Nice try, effboste, but as the only executive of the Executive/Non-Executive branch of the US Government with all the powers vested in him by him and for him, terms such as legal or illegal simply don’t apply. :D
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:03 pmYeah, right, you could teach her to be a treasonous, lying, war criminal, scum bag like yourself, DICK.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:05 pmPersonally, I’d be happiest if I never had to lay eyes on her again OR hear her lying and spinning her butt off in defense of her father’s neocon hit job on this country.
The AEI was backing Palin in the last election but they didn’t have enough time to sufficiently school her in neocon ideology. They might just zero in on this blonde neocon in the next election. In many ways she may be perfect for them.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:06 pmHow does one become a multi-millionaire in a career of public service ? Oh , I forgot about those few lucrative years as the head of Halliburton .
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:06 pmIs Mr. 18% popularity going to be her campaign manager?
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 pmWhat a crock of $$$&&.
Is it really that he’d like to see her run, or just that he’d like to live long enough to see her run? That would give him at least a year, which in terms of his cardiac history might be optimistic.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:17 pmYea….i’d love to see her preform oral sex in a home movie. Some things aren’t going to happen…Liz gaining an office and oral sex by a republican!!!!
STAY AWAY, THE COUNTRY DOESN’T NEED OR WANT YOU!!!!
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:18 pmKnock yourself out, Liz. Do what you want.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 pmThats great Darth…I’d love to see her run too, right off of the edge of a tall building with you right behind her.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pmWhy don’t any of the idiots who think she should “run for office” never name the office for they think which she should run? Do they think people will just elect her Governor or something?
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:23 pmPLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE DO!
Lets hear Liz offering apologies for the Dick and then try to separate herself from him.
“Vote Liz Cheney. Not like Daddy!”
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:24 pmDear god! Not another one. I barely satved off the urge to slash my wrists the last time a Chaney was anywhere near the Whitehouse.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:26 pmSatved = Staved. Damn typos and fingernails.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 pmSersi Says:
Satved = Staved. Damn typos and fingernails.
Thinking about the Cheney family makes my blood chill and my shoulders clench – neither is conducive to faultless typing.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:30 pmHow about McCain/Cheney (Meghan and Liz)
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:32 pmnor is it conducive to good dentition…
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:33 pmFor one thing, Liz Cheney’s penchant for dishonesty rivals that of her father’s.
That trait should stand her well in any Republican primary.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:33 pmDick Cheney and his snotty nose kid are the missing link.
Are there genetic factors associated with psychotic disorder?
Some psychotic disorders, like Schizophrenia, tend to run in families. If someone has a psychotic disorder, it is quite likely that another member of his/her immediate or extended family also has had a psychotic disorder.
We have identified the Republican Gene.
We believe this gene can be found in most people who tell themselves there own lies so much they actually begin to believe them.
We know this gene exists in other humans besides Republicans.
But our studies have shown that this gene is very prevalent and has rabidly effected an entire cult or section of this country.
The Republican base.
We will be releasing our report shortly. We are going to call for any Republican to be checked for this gene before they reproduce.
In other words.
We are trying to stop the crazy from being passed on.
I am not a biologist but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:45 pmCheney II , Revenge of the Sith.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:47 pmWill she attempt to run for public office before or after her daddy’s war crimes hearings?
Swing Dick, swing!
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 pmtexas toilet;
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 pmFLAGGED!
Johnintexas Says:
I chuckle when I compare her to that fat, greasy-haired, ugly, lesbian, racist Obongo just nominated for the Supreme Court.
Wow. The door to “There” was just opened.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:53 pmLiz needs a deferment, or five, to keep her from serving in government
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:56 pmActually Sotomayor was married to a guy named Kevin Noonan.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pmJohnintexas Says:
You represent all that is evil in America and all that made America hated the world over.
A$shole.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 pmCelina [Sonia Sotomayors mother] served in the Women’s Army Corps.
Liz Cheneys mother, or father, didnt.
Way to make a mockery of yourself JIT
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 pmPlease, let’s just flag the racist troll and then ignore it. Ignoring the troll yesterday worked really well. Let’s do it again.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 pmMy guess is you have just disqualified yourself for ever running for office, John. Haven’t you ever heard of the “book by its cover” judgment?
Granted, some spiteful things get said here, but only one comment referred to Liz Cheney as a “cow”, and that was pretty indirect. But to have you assume that Liz Cheney is better than anyone by using mere appearances and not important qualities such as intelligence, demeanor, and decision-making skills…wow.
You’re pretty lucky that the Internet makes us all anonymous and invisible to a degree. Saying something like that in a public forum would pretty much cause a nasty fistfight.
Do you mind reserving your judgments until Sotomayor’s policies and decisions can be weighed?
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmYou mean she’s divorced? I thought only ‘neocons’ got divorced? Lie, much? -=Pumped Full=-
I have never said only neo-cons get divorced, but that republican divorce rates are higher than democratic ones.
Thanks for playing!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmI’m smelling the stench of Cheney wheeling and dealing behind the scenes. Something tells me this PR tour he is on is actually being done to force Republicans to support his daughter for future office. Every Republican lawmaker/analyst (not the radio blowhards) I’ve seen quoted basically wishes Cheney would go away and feel he is damaging this attempted Republican makeover/re-branding.
Could this be a form of blackmail, forcing them to back his daughter or he will not shut up in the media?
Cheney has always done things for self-serving reasons, and not for any love of his Party or country. I have a feeling this PR tour is yet another example of that.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 pmIt’s not surprising that Cheney would support any political plans his daughter might have — what would we expect him to say? That he thinks his darling daughter is a flaming incompetent and unfit for office? That’s a bit unrealistic.
I find more interest in the idea that “unnamed Republicans…are pushing Liz Cheney to run for office”. This tells me there are still Republicans out there who just don’t get it.
There are a couple of really bad ideas here — the first being getting a candidate elected on name recognition only. Name recognition might get one elected, but if the candidate doesn’t have the goods, it will do the party harm. Dubya should be regarded as a prime example.
And the second is the idea that anybody having the name “Bush” or “Cheney” right now would enhance the party — not when the GOP desperately needs to distance itself from the past eight years. Jeb Bush realizes that, and hopefully Liz Cheney will, too.
But if not, it just helps the Democrats.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 pmSpeaking of word games, did you note that Cheney has now said that there is not ties between Iraq and 911?
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 pmBy the way, if Liz Cheney does run for something, we need to pull all the anti Caroline Kennedy quotes from Republicans, who were saying we are not a monarchy, that she shouldn’t just get the job because of her family name, etc.
I’m sure they will be changing their tune if Liz runs for office.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:12 pmWord games like:
Mushroom clouds?
Yellowcake?
Aluminum tubes?
WMD?
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pmJohninTexas that’s some funny shit! Who says Republicans can’t do comedy? Liz Cheney (thanks to the Dick) has held various positions in the State Department throughout the Bush Administration. Elizabeth Cheney also headed the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group, her work with this group has been heavily criticized saying that the group was plotting covert actions that could escalate into war with Iran and Syria. After word of this made the press the group was quickly disbanded. This leach was intricately involved in classified State Dept. activities on behalf of the Republican Party. Liz Cheney undoubtedly had been briefed about the Bush/Cheney torture program, has steadfastedly defended the “enhanced techniques” in the press and should be charged with aiding and abetting war crimes as well as her covert attempts at fomenting a war between Iran and Syria while working for State (a department designed for diplomacy NOT inciting wars. This idiot has WAY too many skeletons in her closet to ever get elected to anything other than a local position in an overwhelmingly red state. All I can say is good luck with all that Liz. JinT says: “She represents all that is good about America and all that made America great.” I beg to differ fool. SHE REPRESENTS THE WORST TRAITOR AND BIGGEST WAR CRIMINAL THIS NATION HAS EVER HAD THE GRAVE MISFORTUNE TO SEE!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 pmI really hope Liz Cheney runs for office.
Run Liz, RUN!!!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 pmSo, your tax dollars are being stolen and given to Iraq!!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 pmSo, thousands of troops have died for a war of choice because of fabrications from the previous admin.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:15 pmShe’s got her Father’s warmth and charm, thats for sure!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 pmpimped out=Jeff Gannon
Hey pimped, suck Cheney’s balls much? Try to defend the America hating war criminal Dick Cheney, it’d be great for a laugh fool.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 pmFried Yer Tomaters Pumped Full — Your Welcome!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 pmOh right, my bad, hundreds of millions of your tax dollars are going to Cheneys revolving door, Halliburton, thru no bid contracts supplying faulty electrical work that, shocker!, has killed troops.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmPumped full thinks that losing 8 billion in Iraq wasnt more federal debt [which is paid thru taxes]
Bwahahahaha
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pmNooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! The unholy blood of Satan flowing in Washington again…lol. On a serious note, put her in some hick district with alot of self-described “patriots” and “Amerkuns” and she’ll get voted into office.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 pmJohnintexas Says
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
“Ms. Cheney has wiped up the floor with every gliberal who has tried to interview her.”
– Really? Care to provide some examples?
“Her command of the facts and facility in side-stepping stupid liberal word games makes her a natural.”
– I’ll admit she’s a bit better at memorizing her flashcards than Sarah Palin was. This really doesn’t make her a ‘natural’ at anything.
“She is pretty, bright, articulate, Christian and of white-European background . . . good solid English stock.”
– While I admit that being bright and articulate are good things to be, I fail to see how being ‘pretty’ qualifies one for office (her father, for example, managed to get elected despite his looks). Your touting her race as some kind of positive atrtribute just speaks of blatant racism — are you suggesting that if she wasn’t of ‘good solid English stock’ that she’d be inferior in some way?
“She represents all that is good about America and all that made America great.”
– I guess it depends on what you think ‘made America great’. Liz Cheney has so far made a name for herself by conducting smear campaigns and defending torture — neither one of which I believe makes America great.
“I chuckle when I compare her to that fat, greasy-haired, ugly, lesbian, racist Obongo just nominated for the Supreme Court.”
– You’re really hung up on looks, aren’t you? But only when it comes to women, I guess. Making you a racist AND a misogynist. Not only is Sonia Sotomayor none of the things you claim her to be in that hateful sentence, but her qualifications and accomplishments run circles around those of Liz Cheney.
“You couldn’t have a better definition of the two Americas we have become if you tried.”
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:31 pm– Finally, something we can agree on. Fortunately, the “America” that Cheney represents has become marginalized and is shrinking daily.
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Q U E S T I O N:
If the TORTURE memos that Liz Cheney speaks of in defense of her dad are still classified, then how does she definitivly know what these memos say?
Is Liz Cheney privy to “CLASSIFIED” materials?
Why won’t the media confront her on this?
Is the media that stupid and dumb?
REALLY???
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June 3rd, 2009 at 1:37 pmI think she should run. Any openings in Central American or African banana republics that anyone knows about?
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:59 pmkkkintexas: Ms. Cheney has wiped up the floor with every gliberal who has tried to interview her. Her command of the facts and facility in side-stepping stupid liberal word games makes her a natural.
Constantly interrupting someone as they try to make a point is NOT indicative of the praise you shower on the cookie-cutter spawn of the worst vice president in U.S. history.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:05 pmWhere did the bigot from Texas come from?
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:27 pmSounds like a possible terorist to me.
Personally, I’d like to place the whole Cheney clan on Alcatraz,where they couldn’t bother the civilized world.
Maybe they could take some bigot trolls with them, too.
tony and lido
Chainy has kids? I thought he ate them.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:33 pmCheney on daughter Liz: ‘I’d love to see her run for office some day.’
i like to see her have to run for bail money for her old man someday.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pmCHENEY: Well, I would — you know, I’m, of course, a proud father, but I’d love to see her run for office some day. I think she’s got a lot to offer. And it’s been a great career for me.
Yeah? No shit! Why don’t you tell us exactly HOW MUCH blood money PROFITS you made from being veep, using no bid contracts to a war corporation and lying to create an unnecessary invasion/occupation of a country that did not attack us and was no threat to EVER do so?
eh?
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:32 pmJohnintexas Says:
Ms. Cheney has wiped up the floor with every gliberal who has tried to interview her. Her command of the facts and facility in side-stepping stupid liberal word games makes her a natural.
She’s never allowed herself to be interviewed by a liberal. Next.
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Johnintexas Says:
She is pretty, bright, articulate, Christian and of white-European background . . . good solid English stock.
She’s not there just for you to breed with, you Aryan Nations troglodyte. Go back to your bunker and tattoo another swastika on your face or something.
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pimped out Says:
She is pretty, bright, articulate, Christian
Precisely why the far left loons hate her!
Not so much. Say, while we’re on the subject, what’s your opinion of the rest of JIT’s sentence? – “…and of white-European background . . . good solid English stock.” What do you think of the rest of your comrade-in-arms’ assessment if Liz Cheney’s qualifications for office?
Must have been an error how you left that out. You seem to think JIT’s an upstanding guy, though. So I’m assuming you agree with him, since you didn’t state otherwise. Or maybe you only disagree with his approach, in that he fails to be sufficiently discreet about certain things…
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pimped out Says:
Actually Sotomayor was married to a guy named Kevin Noonan.
You mean she’s divorced? I thought only ‘neocons’ got divorced? Lie, much?
No, only neocons get divorced and then shout in public about protecting “the sanctity of marriage.” Nobody’s lying about anything but you wingnuts.
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pimped out Says:
not ties between Iraq and 911?
SO?
So, Bush invaded Iraq because he said it was tied to 911. So, there.
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pimped out Says:
Precisely why the real Americans dont want her in office!
What’s it like being in the monority?
The monority? What’s it like being in the moronity?
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:15 pmHey John the Steer Queer from Texastan. I see you’re back from buttblasting the cattle. Why don’t you steer queering Texanstanians just do this country a favor and secede like Perry has been suggesting. We don’t need Texastan and America can do better without you racist redneck pro torture, pro rape, pro crime neocon scum. Just think. It’ll do you good. You can elect Bush once again as President and he can be alongside Cheney as VP and Lizbo can run a major public office at the ranch. She can be Secretary of Steer Queering.
AHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:58 pmIt is fact johnny the steer queer from Texas that the highest divorce rate are among red states where the blue states have a much lower divorce rate. In Massachusetts, a blue state where same sex marriage is allowed has the LOWEST divorce rate nationally. I wonder why? Maybe your fat cigar smoking wives been catching you losers queering with the steers???
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:04 pmMore Cheney’s in gov: less likely to see an independent investigation of 9/11.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:12 amHuh. This has distinct possibilities. Like, she and Meghan McCain (jr. debutante/rnc messiah) can mud wrestle. Sessions, Rove, Pence, Vitter and Coleman can swig and belch Pabst while vaguely groping Bachman, sweating profusely in the damp stench of the arena…Glenn Beck will commentate and Ann Coulter will sulk in the back row, petulant at not being female center of attention.
June 4th, 2009 at 1:04 pm