Liz Cheney is the real deal, not Sarah Palin

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NASHVILLE - Liz Cheney ... was introduced as “our favorite vice president’s daughter” at a recent gathering of conservative women here.

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Like her father, Ms. Cheney speaks in understated, almost academic cadences, head veering down into her notes. She also shares his willingness to pummel President Obama in stark, disdainful tones, not so much criticizing as taunting him.

“Mr. President, in a ticking time-bomb scenario, with American lives at stake,” she said, “are you really unwilling to subject a terrorist to enhanced interrogation to get information that would prevent an attack?”

By speech’s end, the crowd was standing, and the former vice president’s daughter was being mobbed for photos and hounded to run for office.

Liz Cheney is “a red state rock star,” declared Rebecca Wales, one of the organizers of this event, the “Smart Girls Summit.”

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Ms. Cheney ... has become a rallying point for conservative views on national security. In a broader sense, she is being promoted as a rising star of the Republican Party, one who is hardly shying from the Cheney brand.

Ms. Cheney’s resolute national security positions seem to differ not at all from those of her favorite vice president. “I think you’d be hard-pressed to find any daylight at all between Liz’s and my father’s views,” said her younger sister, Mary Cheney. “It’s not because she’s been indoctrinated. It’s because he’s right.”

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Liz Cheney’s appeal in conservative settings like the one in Nashville was evident within seconds of her arrival. She strolled in without entourage to a Sheraton ballroom, unrecognized at first, past a cluster of women getting their pictures taken with Joe the Plumber.

“God bless you, I pray for your abundance,” a woman from Scottsdale, Ariz., Lori Frantzve, said upon realizing who Ms. Cheney was.

“Oh, I have five kids; I have plenty of abundance,” Ms. Cheney replied.

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Mr. Obama is “an American president who seems to be afraid to defend America,” she told Larry King on his CNN program in an appearance that drew notice when Ms. Cheney appeared not to contest a suggestion that the president had not been born in the United States.

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When asked by a member of the audience if she would run for office, Ms. Cheney said, “We’ll see.” She said her main focus now, beside the memoir, was shuttling her children among school, play-dates and soccer practices.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/us/politics/28cheney.html

[Danno 1,228]

Every time I have heard this woman speak I have been very impressed, like her dad she is usually in command of the facts and quite skilled at making her point.

While I certainly don't count Palin "out", Liz (from what I know so far) would be a great candidate.

[Joseph & Ana 0]

Not sure why she's any more real than Sarah Palin. They both say the same things.