Ok, I've had it with this family.
Dick Cheney has some nerve pretending now to be all angry that his lesbian daughter was "outed" during the debate last night. He sold Mary out four years ago in order to win the votes of the anti-gay bigots and now he's Mr. PFLAG Dad? Mrs. Cheney downright denied Mary was gay 4 years ago, after Mary had served as the openly-lesbian gay liaison at Coors. And now they go all gay pride on us?
What you're really seeing is the Bush campaign using the gay card as only it can. After years of bashing gays and lesbians. After proposing to make us second-class citizens in the US Constitution - the only other class of Americans ever put in that category were slaves. And after the Cheney family - Dick, Mary and Lynne - oh-so-merrily went along with the president's plan to treat Mary and her lover like some kind of leper. NOW the Cheney's are suddenly the great defenders of gay America.
You know what? Fuck you.
From AP:
Vice President Dick Cheney called himself a "pretty angry father" Thursday as he denounced Sen. John Kerry for mentioning his gay daughter during a debate with President Bush.
Cheney and his wife, Lynne, have two daughters. Mary Cheney is openly gay and an official in the Bush-Cheney campaign. The vice president has spoken at length about his daughter's sexuality and his view of gay relationships, even disagreeing with the president about the need for a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages.
Asked Wednesday night by debate moderator Bob Schieffer whether homosexuality is a choice, Kerry said: "We're all God's children, Bob, and I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was. She's being who she was born as. I think if you talk to anybody, it's not a choice."
Cheney told supporters at a rally in Fort Myers, "You saw a man who will do and say anything to get elected, and I am not just speaking as a father here, although I am a pretty angry father."
In a post-debate appearance Wednesday night, Lynne Cheney accused Kerry of pulling a "cheap and tawdry political trick." In response, Elizabeth Edwards suggested in a radio interview that Mrs. Cheney might feel "a certain degree of shame" because her daughter is a lesbian.
When Mrs. Cheney introduced her husband to a crowd of 800 people after a debate-watching party in the Pittsburgh suburb of Coraopolis, Pa., she made clear she thought Kerry had crossed a line into family privacy.
"Now, you know, I did have a chance to assess John Kerry once more and now the only thing I could conclude: This is not a good man," she said. "Of course, I am speaking as a mom, and a pretty indignant mom. This is not a good man. What a cheap and tawdry political trick."
Mrs. Cheney was not specific, and the vice president did not raise the matter in his remarks.
Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of vice presidential candidate John Edwards, said of Lynne Cheney in an interview Thursday with ABC Radio: "She's overreacted to this and treated it as if it's shameful to have this discussion. I think that's a very sad state of affairs. ... I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences. ... It makes me really sad that that's Lynne's response."
The vice president expressed no objection when Edwards brought up Mary Cheney during their debate. Edwards expressed "respect for the fact that they're willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter, the fact that they embrace her. It's a wonderful thing."
Cheney thanked his opponent for the "kind words he said about my family and our daughter. I appreciate that very much."
