LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
Full
Steam
Ahead
N THIS WEEK’S ISSUE,
Jon Ward takes a nuanced look at how Liz
Cheney’s candidacy for
a Wyoming senate seat fell apart.
Cheney left the race last week,
citing family reasons. But her
bid was doomed from the beginning, Jon writes, due to her bullheaded tactics. When the former
vice president’s daughter found
herself up against any sort of adversity, Cheney operated at one
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speed only: full steam ahead.
From a public break with her
lesbian sister over gay marriage
to interactions with her senate
challenger, incumbent Mike Enzi,
Cheney never gave an inch where
perhaps two would have been
helpful. In the end, Jon writes,
“Cheney’s campaign-trail mishaps were not just the accidents
of a first-timer. They were the
inevitable byproduct of her basic
approach to political combat.”
Elsewhere in the issue, Catherine Pearson explores how adults
who are estranged from their par-
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