These are my ads, paid for by all of you who contributed to DearMary.com. This is a snippet of the AP story that just came out:
A campaign to compel the vice president's lesbian daughter to oppose a proposed ban on gay marriage is launching its first Internet ad on Monday.You can see the entire ad at the top of the DearMary.com home page. The ads officially start running across the Internet on Monday.
A series of simply animated cartoon panels features stick figures of Mary Cheney and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites). One image reads, 'Dick's daughter sold out to help Dick run again.'
The story line refers to Mary Cheney's job as director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. She held a public role as her father's assistant in the 2000 campaign and helped the GOP recruit homosexual voters during the 2002 midterm elections. She has been less visible this year while traveling with the vice president or working at campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va.
President Bush, meanwhile, has disturbed many gays, Republicans included, by asking Congress to move on a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the United States.
'They've clearly made the decision to keep her in the closet for this campaign,' said John Aravosis, who in February launched the Web-based campaign www.DearMary.com, which started running the ad on Friday. 'They clearly understand the contradiction between having a lesbian run the vice president's campaign at the same time they want to bash gays in the Constitution.'....
