A sneering Liz Cheney, looking to unseat Wyoming GOP Sen. Mike Enzi, told a Tea
Party town hall in Jackson Hole Tuesday night that she would not support a
congressional resolution to back President Obama’s planned Syria strike,
deriding him for “an amateurish approach to national security and foreign
policy.”[...]
Cheney’s turnaround is pretty striking. She was a
co-founder of the neo-con group Keep America Safe, along with always-wrong
war-lover William Kristol. TNR’s Marc Tracy has detailed Cheney’s long list of
statements backing action against Assad going back to 2007. As an assistant
secretary of state she tried to use funds for regime change in Syria and Iran.
Just last month, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin (who’s in the running to
share Kristol’s title of “always wrong,”) listed Cheney as among the rising
Republican stars who would buck “the isolationist trend in our party and in the
country itself.” But now, running in a state that’s skeptical of more foreign
interventions, she’s siding with the isolationists.
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