GIVE NO
GROUND
HUFFINGTON
01.19.14
MARC PISCOTTY/GETTY IMAGES
Why did this well-prepared, well-connected, well-known
political figure put on such an amateurish performance
when she finally ran for office on her own?
most state residents view as the
place where interlopers from Hollywood buy vacation houses. Like,
say, Cheney’s 3,472 square foot,
four-bed, four-bath house, listed
at $1.9 million. Likewise, while
she railed against the Beltway
establishment, she didn’t much
mention that her husband is a
D.C. power lawyer by way of his
own Bush administration stints,
or that their McLean, Va., home
is a seven-bedroom, seven-bath,
$2 million spread. (When Cheney
was growing up, the revolving
door was far less lucrative: Her
family owned a place in Casper
where she had to catch flooding
water with pots and pans when a
visiting Gerald Ford failed to secure the upstairs shower curtain;
their Virginia house was “a nice
tidy little house like we all had
back then,” according to a high
school friend.)
Liz Cheney
fields reporter
questions
at a news
conference
the day after
she launched
her Senate
campaign on
July 17, 2013.