Liz Cheney To Run For House in 2016

• In an impeccable display of timing, Liz Cheney decided to announce that she'll seek Wyoming's open at-large House seat on the day of the Iowa caucuses, thus ensuring that she'd earn as little attention as possible from the political world. Maybe that's not such a bad thing, though, since Cheney's really only known for two things in the Cowboy State: One, the fact that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, used to represent this same seat and two, her disastrous abortive bid for Senate last cycle.
  During that brief debacle, Cheney pissed off most of Wyoming's Republican establishment when, for reasons she never articulated, she decided she'd try to oust Sen. Mike Enzi in the GOP primary. No one seemed to have any problem with Enzi, but they certainly did with Cheney, who was immediately painted as a carpetbagger who'd spent most of her life in suburban DC and had only recently moved back to her birthplace to wage an overweeningly ambitious bid for public office. After just a few months, an endless parade of bad headlines, and some ugly-looking polls, Cheney mercifully abandoned her ill-conceived project.
  And it looks like she learned some important lessons, too. In announcing her newest campaign on Facebook, she did so from the quiet back-country Wyoming town of Arlington, Virginia:
  
  Whoops! Let's see if Cheney gets dinged for this by any of her primary opponents, a groups that so far includes state Sen. Leland Christensen and state Rep. Tim Stubson. But we still have a fair bit of time before Wyoming's Aug. 16 primary, so others may yet join—particularly since Cheney looks no more intimidating now than she did last time around.

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