Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Gooses and Ganders
In the third presidential debate, on one of the last questions to the candidates, the issues of gay marriage came up. After President Bush's meandering answer about activist judges, the question turned to Senator Kerry. Senator Kerry said that "we were all God's Children" and then brought Cheney's daughter, Mary, into the answer by saying that "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."
Afterward you would have thought that Senator Kerry had committed the most egregious act of modern politics. The headline on CNN's website was "Cheney's Indignant About Kerry Remark," and Lynne Cheney charged that Kerry's infusion of her daughter's sexuality into the political race was a "cheap and tawdry political trick" with her husband muttering something similar to "Big Time."
Over at "NewsMax," which is always known for its sobering analysis of politics, Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York who apparently these days has lost his mind, claimed that this disgraceful gesture by Kerry ended the possibility of Kerry and Edwards winning the election. Koch claims that Kerry was trying to "drive a wedge between Mr. Cheney and conservatives [who were] unaware that his daughter was gay." Unaware that his daughter was gay?
In the Vice-Presidential debate between Cheney and Lieberman in 2000, Cheney was able to show how he broke with conservatives on the issue of gay marriage, claiming that anyone should be able to engage in whatever relationships they chose. His daughter, Mary, even joined the ticket in 2000 as part of the "gay friendly Republican Unity Coalition" in an effort to bolster the "compassionate conservative" image of the Governor.
In August of this year, Cheney deliberately infused his daughter's sexuality into the campaign in a townhall meeting in Davenport, Iowa. In that meeting, Cheney said that he has "a gay daughter, Mary, who is a lesbian" before going on to pronounce the freedoms of couples to pair up however they wish.
So when Kerry makes a comment, relatively innocuous about the Cheney's daughter, it was not as if he outed her. The Cheney's had been using her, and her sexuality, to reach out to the gay voters since the 2000 election.
But it doesn't stop there. After all this flack that Kerry took over mentioning Cheney's daughter, we now learn that Mary has hired her sexuality out to the Pete Coors campaign for Senator of Colorado.
In a blurb that appeared on page A4 in the "Wall Street Journal" yesterday, David Rogers notes that "Mr. Coors, a six-foot-five former chief executive on leave as chairman of Adolph Coors Co., has the potential to broaden Republican appeal. His company hired Mary Cheney, the vice president's daughter, to improve its image with the gay community."
So this little flower, who has been devastated by Kerry thoughtless comments regarding her sexuality, apparently will "hire" her sexuality out to political campaigns, even those with a history of discrimination against homosexuals. Are the Cheney's mad that Kerry used Mary's sexuality without paying for its use? Is that it? I am scratching my head trying to figure out what exactly the outrage is all about?
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Afterward you would have thought that Senator Kerry had committed the most egregious act of modern politics. The headline on CNN's website was "Cheney's Indignant About Kerry Remark," and Lynne Cheney charged that Kerry's infusion of her daughter's sexuality into the political race was a "cheap and tawdry political trick" with her husband muttering something similar to "Big Time."
Over at "NewsMax," which is always known for its sobering analysis of politics, Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York who apparently these days has lost his mind, claimed that this disgraceful gesture by Kerry ended the possibility of Kerry and Edwards winning the election. Koch claims that Kerry was trying to "drive a wedge between Mr. Cheney and conservatives [who were] unaware that his daughter was gay." Unaware that his daughter was gay?
In the Vice-Presidential debate between Cheney and Lieberman in 2000, Cheney was able to show how he broke with conservatives on the issue of gay marriage, claiming that anyone should be able to engage in whatever relationships they chose. His daughter, Mary, even joined the ticket in 2000 as part of the "gay friendly Republican Unity Coalition" in an effort to bolster the "compassionate conservative" image of the Governor.
In August of this year, Cheney deliberately infused his daughter's sexuality into the campaign in a townhall meeting in Davenport, Iowa. In that meeting, Cheney said that he has "a gay daughter, Mary, who is a lesbian" before going on to pronounce the freedoms of couples to pair up however they wish.
So when Kerry makes a comment, relatively innocuous about the Cheney's daughter, it was not as if he outed her. The Cheney's had been using her, and her sexuality, to reach out to the gay voters since the 2000 election.
But it doesn't stop there. After all this flack that Kerry took over mentioning Cheney's daughter, we now learn that Mary has hired her sexuality out to the Pete Coors campaign for Senator of Colorado.
In a blurb that appeared on page A4 in the "Wall Street Journal" yesterday, David Rogers notes that "Mr. Coors, a six-foot-five former chief executive on leave as chairman of Adolph Coors Co., has the potential to broaden Republican appeal. His company hired Mary Cheney, the vice president's daughter, to improve its image with the gay community."
So this little flower, who has been devastated by Kerry thoughtless comments regarding her sexuality, apparently will "hire" her sexuality out to political campaigns, even those with a history of discrimination against homosexuals. Are the Cheney's mad that Kerry used Mary's sexuality without paying for its use? Is that it? I am scratching my head trying to figure out what exactly the outrage is all about?
