In the supposed “Tea Party versus Republican Establishment” narrative, I can’t figure out where this one would fit.

Because she’d be running on the “Obama is a Commie” tack, overturning the incumbent entrenched Republican.  But it’s a freaking Cheney.

Ms. Cheney, 46, is showing up everywhere in the state, from chicken dinners to cattle growers’ meetings, sometimes with her parents in tow. She has made it clear that she wants to run for the Senate seat now held by Michael B. Enzi, a soft-spoken Republican and onetime fly-fishing partner of her father.  [just don’t take him up on any proposed hunting trip.]
But Ms. Cheney’s move threatens to start a civil war within the state’s Republican establishment, despite the reverence many hold for her family.
Mr. Enzi, 69, says he is not ready to retire, and many Republicans say he has done nothing to deserve being turned out.

Curious enough.

The only reason Mr. Enzi would “be in any difficulty is if there’s a weird group of Republicans who think compromise is akin to communism,” said Mr. Simpson, who called Mr. Enzi and Ms. Cheney “both wonderful people” and, like many here, does not want to have to choose.

Hm.  Yeah.  Mike Enzi is in trouble.  And then there’s…

It would bring about “the destruction of the Republican Party of Wyoming if she decides to run and he runs, too,” Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from the state, said in an interview last week. “It’s a disaster — a divisive, ugly situation — and all it does is open the door for the Democrats for 20 years.”

Urm.  I know they had one of those non partisan Democratic governors just a fortnight ago, but… there’s a Democratic Party in Wyoming?

Note that further to Enzi’s right, and further to Cheney’s right, there’s this perenial candidate.

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