It was a vicious Twitter battle, but fun, apparently.
Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 House Republican, said she enjoyed fighting on social media with Sen. Rand Paul over foreign policy Thursday.
“I enjoyed it,” Cheney told reporters at the House GOP retreat in Baltimore. “I thought it was an enlightening exchange. Here I had been thinking the Senate was dull.”
Cheney and Paul engaged in a nasty public fight on social media Thursday that started when Paul shared a Washington Examiner op-ed that was critical of Cheney’s stance on Afghanistan.
Paul called Cheney a “neocon” who advocates for “endless wars.” Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who is considering a 2020 Senate run in Wyoming, blasted Paul in response.
The fight ultimately devolved into an exchange in which Cheney trashed Paul’s short-lived 2016 presidential bid and called him “a big loser.” She retweeted a Trump tweet from one of the 2015 debates in which then-candidate Trump called Paul “a spoiled brat without a properly functioning brain.”
Paul and Trump are now close allies.
A Paul aide, chief strategist Doug Stafford, tweeted to Cheney that Trump and Paul believe Cheney’s family are “chickenhawk warmongers who personally benefited from the military industrial complex and are responsible for thousands of lost lives and trillions of lost dollars.”
Cheney continued swinging back at Paul on Friday.
“There are key issues at the heart of the disagreement,” she said. “Issues that surround whether you put America first, or blame America first, as Rand Paul does and has for years.”
Cheney said Paul blames America for World War II.
“It was an enlightening exchange of views,” Cheney said. “I enjoyed it, and there were important issues at the heart of it.”
