Liz Cheney emerges as GOP 'rock star'

NASHVILLE, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Liz Cheney, the daughter of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, has become a rising star of the Republican Party, political analysts say.

The 43-year-old lawyer and former State Department official is carrying on the Cheney message on national security, which advocates an aggressive and interventionist policy toward international relations, The New York Times reported Monday.

Cheney is "a red state rock star," Rebecca Wales, one of the organizers of this weekend's "Smart Girls Summit" event in Nashville, told the newspaper.

"I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any daylight at all between Liz's and my father's views," added her younger sister, Mary Cheney. "It's not because she's been indoctrinated. It's because he's right."

She also shares her father's approach in referencing President Barack Obama with disdain when it comes using "enhanced interrogation" techniques on terrorism suspects, telling the Nashville crowd, "Mr. President, in a ticking time-bomb scenario, with American lives at stake, are you really unwilling to subject a terrorist to enhanced interrogation to get information that would prevent an attack?"

The Times said Cheney added, "We can't win if we don't fight," noting she was taught that lesson "by a great American, my dad, Dick Cheney."