There is no doubt in my mind why Kerry and Edwards brought up Cheney's gay daughter in the debates. It was a subtle (or so they thought) way of letting the part of the Christian right that just now may be paying attention to the presidential race, know that Cheney has a lesbian daughter. Hoping it would convince them to stay home on election day. Which goes to show you how little Kerry and Edwards know about the Christian right. The Christian right admire Cheney and his wife for showing such love and concern for their child even if she doesn't live as they would like her to. It is a perfect example of loving your child unconditionally. Isn't this something the gay community should celebrate when so many parents have nothing to do with their child after they have confessed to being gay?
Then Liz Edward adds insult to injury by saying that Lynn Chenye's anger over the remark somehow shows her to be ashamed of her daughter.
In a reprehensible effort to display their "respect" of gays and at the same time play on the supposed bigotry of the religious right, the Kerry campaign (Cahill especially) tripped up on a unspoken rule of common decency...You don't use the other candidate's children for political points. You just don't.
People are used to mudslinging in politics, but given all the dirt that has been thrown throughout political history during an election, we have thus far kept the politician's children out of it.
That is, until now.
You see, this is a simple thing that all people can understand. No spin can change it or change it's meaning. Many may miss the insult to religious parents, many may miss the pandering to the gay community, but no one missed the fact that Kerry brought up unecessarilly a very personal family issue involving the child of one of his opponents to score political points.
Every parent could relate to the remarks of Dick and Lynn Cheny expressing their anger at this.
Kerry made a tactical mistake.
Let us hope it cost him.
The Sinclair Broadcasting group is planning on airing "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal." The documentary features first-person accounts relating how POWs were tortured by the Viet Cong with John Kerry's 1971 senate testimony.
The Kerry Campaign is calling it anti-Kerry partisan tripe, but as Front Page Mag says "They ignore the fact that the men and women featured in "Stolen Honor" are highly decorated Vietnam POW's and their wives, who through blood and tears have earned the right to speak to and be heard by the American public."
Sorry guys, once you let Fahrenheit 911 out there, all bets are off. If Moore can 'edit' the truth, then these guys can TELL the truth.
Kinda makes you wish you hadn't started the food fight, now doesn't it?
Speaking of starting it. This is why online polling sucks-
"Before the first presidential debate, Sen. John Kerry's campaign e-mailed its supporters, as part of its rapid-response effort, instructing them to visit online polls on news sites and cast their vote for Kerry. Even before traditional polling firms surveyed likely voters that evening, online polls declared Kerry the winner." via Wired News
You know what is really sad? Now every election will make more lawyers rich. Read here. and here.
Funny Quote of the day:
"I was a witch with my children, truly, about television."- Teresa Heinz Kerry, on Dr. Phil
Truly....we believe it.
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