Huffington Magazine Issue 84 | Page 47

GIVE NO GROUND HUFFINGTON 01.19.14 HELEN H. RICHARDSON/THE DENVER POST VIA GETTY IMAGES 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 (ri