Wyoming's Republicans: "Daughter's A Cartpetbagger, Just Like Her Father". . . Hilarious!

It comes as scant surprise that Mr. Cheney's older daughter is as divisive -- even within her own party -- as Mr. Cheney was/is. It seems she's trying to out-muscle a well-liked, long serving Senator in Wyoming. A Cheney acting brashly, and against advice? "Well. . . I'm shocked. Simply shocked." Or not so much.

The only reason the long-standing, and well-liked Mr. Enzi would “be in any difficulty is if there’s a weird group of Republicans who think compromise is akin to communism,” said Alan Simpson, a legendary figure in Wyoming Republican politics. That sort of "difficulty" is of Mr. -- and Ms. -- Cheney's making, at the moment.

Here is a bit of the Times reporting on it, from Jackson Hole, on it -- do go read it all:

. . .What has startled some people here is not just the fact that Ms. Cheney is seemingly trying to nudge Mr. Enzi into retirement, but that she appears to be doing so with a hand from her father.

The former vice president and Mr. Enzi have been friends since the 1970s, when Mr. Cheney was Wyoming’s at-large congressman and Mr. Enzi was the mayor of Gillette. They became closer, Mr. Enzi recalled, over a shared passion: fly-fishing. The two were on the same team competing in a popular annual One Fly tournament — fishing with the same fly lure all day — in the Snake River.

But Mr. Enzi said he had not recently heard from the man he calls his “good friend.”

“I would expect that he’d call before she declares,” Mr. Enzi said of Mr. Cheney. . . .

If Ms. Cheney feels the need to blend in with the locals, it may be because of the carpetbagging charges her father faced when he moved back here from Washington in 1977 after working for President Gerald R. Ford. . . .

As I say -- hilarious! Good luck Ms. Cheney!