Mary Cheyney is a grown woman. She is an employee of her father's campaign. She is also a lesbian. Sort of a professional lesbian inasmuch as her pre-campaign job was improving Coors Gay market share. Thanks to the homophobic pandering of the (not-much-longer-God-willing) President, she can't be married. However, she DOES wear a "wedding" ring. As an out, professional, "married" lesbian, one imagines that she is not ashamed to be who she is. But somebody IS ashamed. The Cheney's are mad as hell and they're not gonna take it anymore.
Dick, Lynne and Big Sis (BS) Liz have all made scathing remarks about Kerry's brief and, frankly innocuous, comment in response to a debate question about homosexuality. Dick is an angry Dad. Lynne says he's a bad man. Mary says... well, NOTHING. Hmm, how come we haven't heard from the "injured" party. At Paula Zahn's town hall meeting, BS Liz labeled the remark being offensive. When Zahn asked if MARY was offended, BS Liz deflected. She left people to "draw their own conclusions."
But what conclusions are we to draw? That being a lesbian is offensive? That mentioning the biological certainty of homosexuality is offensive? BS Liz went do far as to refer to her sister as the "Vice President's CHILD." A child??? John McCain's adopted daughter was a CHILD when Rove's minion's spun her racial heritage into a wedge that cost him his considerable momentum. A grown professional woman who travels with her lesbian partner on the campaign trail is not a child.
Given the Cheyney's Gay-when-we-wanna-be strategy, their "outrage" is outrageous. They want to have it both ways. Shame about the lesbianism (to pander to the fundamentalist Righties) and open arm acceptance (to minimize the hemorrhaging of Gay voters with common sense). On November 3rd, do you think they'll let Mary out of the closet to say how she feels about the scandal?
Dick, Lynne and Big Sis (BS) Liz have all made scathing remarks about Kerry's brief and, frankly innocuous, comment in response to a debate question about homosexuality. Dick is an angry Dad. Lynne says he's a bad man. Mary says... well, NOTHING. Hmm, how come we haven't heard from the "injured" party. At Paula Zahn's town hall meeting, BS Liz labeled the remark being offensive. When Zahn asked if MARY was offended, BS Liz deflected. She left people to "draw their own conclusions."
But what conclusions are we to draw? That being a lesbian is offensive? That mentioning the biological certainty of homosexuality is offensive? BS Liz went do far as to refer to her sister as the "Vice President's CHILD." A child??? John McCain's adopted daughter was a CHILD when Rove's minion's spun her racial heritage into a wedge that cost him his considerable momentum. A grown professional woman who travels with her lesbian partner on the campaign trail is not a child.
Given the Cheyney's Gay-when-we-wanna-be strategy, their "outrage" is outrageous. They want to have it both ways. Shame about the lesbianism (to pander to the fundamentalist Righties) and open arm acceptance (to minimize the hemorrhaging of Gay voters with common sense). On November 3rd, do you think they'll let Mary out of the closet to say how she feels about the scandal?
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