Now I'm really getting furious. I am already sick of Lynne Cheney and the rest of the Bush-Cheney camp whining about how "low" it was to "drag" Mary Cheney into it by announcing that she is a lesbian during the debate. Newsflash, bitches: most of America already knows. Cheney himself made it a campaign issue a few weeks ago at a townhall meeting to try to show how "compassionate" he is and rally gay support. Mary Cheney is out, she's an adult, and she is very active in her father's campaign. Kerry was merely stating a fact. The fact that Mary's own mother thinks it's "tawdry" to discuss her lesbianism is quite revealing of the homophobic nature of the Republican party. Perhaps they didn't want the few households of "middle America" who hadn't gotten the memo to find out that they had a lesbian in their ranks. Woops. Guess you should have thought about that before you got "personal" and tried to write discrimination against gays into the US Constitution. You can't have it both ways, bitches. And shame on Mary Cheney for being the Uncle Tom of the gay community. And an extra shame on the normally reasonable Ron Reagan for getting his ballet panties in a bunch after the debate because "you don't bring family into it." Guess what, Cheney brought family into long ago, and Kerry and Bush have been asked about their daughters at two of the three debates. Plus both sets of daughters have been very active throughout the campaign. Their families, and the families of gays and lesbians across the country for that matter, are very much part of this debate.
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