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Candidate Cheney was at her most awkward...
as she sought to distance herself from the city
that defined her.
promote democratic reform in the
Middle East. In fact, that’s a rare
case where Cheney acknowledges
having learned something from a
mistake. What’d she learn? That
her dad, who’d been skeptical of
such efforts, may have been right.
Candidate Cheney was at her
most awkward, though, as she
sought to distance herself from
the city that defined her. At
campaign events last fall, she
talked up her Wyoming roots
and dressed in boots. But when I
chatted with her at one stop, her
jeans were so new that her hands
were stained blue from touching
them. And a candidate more savvy
about the carpetbagger charge
might have moved somewhere
other than Jackson Hole, which
Liz Cheney
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