John Kerry last night:
“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’m sure she would, senator, but that was not what you were asked. And why have you and your running mate brought this up at every debate? Mrs Cheney called it ” cheap and tawdry political trick”… and she’s right.It’s a not so subtle move to try and hurt Bush Cheney with Social conservatives. ACE notes [1] that even the far leftist New York Times was forced to view the low tactic as such;
“Forget his health care plan. Forget abortion and embryonic stem cell research. Forget even how many times he did or did not vote to raise taxes. Senator John Kerry may have lost three critical votes with a simple aside, when he invoked Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter as part of an answer on same-sex marriage.
“That is very unfair,” blurted Patsey Farrell, 64, one of a handful of undecided voters gathered here to watch the final presidential debate Wednesday night. “I’m sorry, that’s too personal. That’s too hurtful.”Her son-in-law, Kevin Uhde, the 50-year-old elementary school principal who held this pizza party, agreed. “Not by name,” he said, shaking his head at Mr. Kerry on the 24-inch Phillips television set a few yards away. “Why single out one person?”
And Mr. Uhde’s wife, Karlen, added, “I think it’s like a low blow.””
Kerry goes on at that point to mumble about
“I think if you talk to anybody, it’s not choice”
Well, Senator that’s not true, as is usual of your statements. The facts are it IS a choice [2], and always has been… and most people see it as a choice.
And mostly, they see Mr. Kerry trying to use homosexuality as a wedge issue…. except the true beleivers like that blithering idiot Sullivan.
UpdateAce makes a good point [3]…(paraphrase, here) Let’s imagine Gephardt had won the nomination, and George Bush had repeatedly invoked the name of his homoseual daughter. Imagine the response.