For all the bluster coming from the V.P. and his fellow Republicans, you’d think nothing was more important to them than their families. Right?
Well did anyone else notice a conspicuous absense on the stage after his speech last night? Someone who was there. I saw her in one of the crowd shots during his speech.
So where was Mary and her partner at the big family photo on stage?
Once again Cheney has put politics ahead of his daughter.
I’m not sure why you think it was his choice and not hers. He has never made any attempt to distance himself from his daughter, and in fact has often expressed his love for her. She has helped work on his campaign. According to this source, while there are a few nutjobs like Keyes with their panties in wads, other delegates were glad that Mary was there. She sat with her partner in the family’s front-row seats. Maybe she decided on her own not to make herself into an issue. Of course, it is obvious that she would be made into an issue no matter what she did. I mean, here we are.
OMG! H. John Heinz IV wasn’t at his step-father’s acceptance speech. He wasn’t even in the audience! John Kerry must be catering to the Buddhophobes in the Democrat party! SCANDAL! GOTTERDAMURUNG!
Or I don’t care. I just can’t decide today.
Well, no families, no babies, that’s what Dick always says.
Cheney speaking at a campaing stop in Davenport, IA, was asked to “speak from his heart” about same-sex marriage, he acknowledged his daughter:
and, horrifyingly, went on to say something I totally agree with:
He stops short of promoting gay marriage, but says it should be left to the states to decide, but he did break with the President by opposing a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Is it possible at all that Cheney’s daughter just doesn’t want to be in front of the camera?
“Dammit, get on stage! You’re still my daughter, and I’m the fucking VP of the US! You will do what I say! You will get on stage and make out with your partner to help us keep the Presidency for four more years or I will have you shipped to Afghanistan!”
He seems to be pretty much aligned with Kerry on this. Kerry opposed an amendment to the federal constitution but supported one for the constititution of his state.
It’s all well and good that he says that now, after the FMA failed in the Senate, and even back in the 2000 campaign. However, when the Amendment was picking up steam he sung a different song. In a Denver Post interview, he said he will support the President’s decision to seek an amendment.
It matters not to me whether she chose not to get on the stage or someone else made the decision. It is still cowardice on the part of Cheney family to not acknowledge one daughter when Dick purposefully mentioned the other, noting that he had a grandchild, and having them on the stage after the acceptance speech. Futher I think it asinine to suggest that Mary was simply seeking to avoid the limelight. She’s the fucking director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. She’s not simply a private citizen. Don’t forget that in 2000 Lynne Cheney denied Mary’s orientation in an interview with Cokie Roberts
Even though she had indeed publicly come out, even working as the gay liason for Coors.
It’s disgraceful.
The fact of the matter is that Cheney didn’t mention either daughter. If you mean that by referencing his grandchildren, he indirectly referenced one daughter, then that’s true only if you are privvy to certain information and decide to make the ancillary deduction. The other child could have been a son, or another gay daughter for that matter. Gay people are capable of sexual reproduction. And now you’re saying that no matter who made the decision, including Mary herself, the whole family is a bunch of cowards despite that Cheney has never attempted — including last night — to hide the fact that his daughter is gay. She sat front and center with her lover in the family’s box. It seems to me that what is disgraceful is this rant. What is it that compels you to stick your nose into other people’s personal family business? Weren’t you one of the people who cried out that Bill Clinton’s sex life was his personal business? Did you ever call his denials to the world and to his wife disgraceful? Did it ever occur to you that you might be your cause’s own worst enemy? Here you have an opportunity to point out to conservatives that one of their own is accepting of gays and that maybe they should be too; instead, you use it as a pathetic opportunity to pout out loud and take frivolous swipes at people you don’t even know.
I’m not privy to any information that isn’t public knowledge. Any moderately aware person in America knows the Cheneys have two daughters and no sons. Hell, they’ve mentioned it often enough. It’s also not so difficult to ascertain which daughter has the growing number of children. Elizabeth was on the stage.
Yeah, I know gay people have kids, I have one and you know it. So don’t cop your condensending attitude with me.
I don’t know. Maybe it’s the fucking FMA that Cheney didn’t speak out against. Maybe it’s DOMA. Maybe it’s the continual assault that these hypocrites engage in.
He’s not accepting of gays. He accepting of his daughter, in private, mind you. If he was so accepting, then why didn’t he stand up to Bush and the Religious Right on the issue? Why didn’t he have Mary up on the stage with him, Lynne and Elizabeth? Then why shouldn’t she have been on the stage with the rest of the family? Yes they are cowards because they won’t stand up and say this is an issue they will stand their ground on. They haven’t opposed the Party Planks that would outlaw gay marriages as well as civil unions. They haven’t opposed the Party Plank that continues to assert that homosexuals have no place in the military.
Lib, I don’t know what is going on to make you so unhinged lately. To this point I’ve held my tongue; but you’re starting to really grate with your shrill contrarian act. You do nothing but hop from thread to thread denigrating the left and the right espousing your pie-in-the-sky naive libertarian bullshit. The last time you went off the deep end and took a break I missed you and wrote to tell you that. I won’t this time.
Nothing but? Seems to me that’s twice the work you do yourself. 
Which is what he said during the 2000 campaign, except, oops, in between he joined in supporting Bush’s call for the amendment. Please don’t give Cheney any credit for this.
Why does Coors need a “gay liason”?
Oh, yeah. 
I hate not getting the joke.
I like to think I’m moderately aware and I had no idea how many children Dick Cheney has, all I knew was that one of them is a lesbian.
I also have no idea how many children John Kerry has, though I know it is at least two.
At one time, Coors was using lie detectors in hiring interviews. Rumors surfaced that Coors was asking people about their sexuality, but Coors denied this, saying that it was a longstanding practice for security purposes related to the kidnapping of Adolph Coors III around 1960 by a Coors employee. Scott Coors was the son of a high-holy (board vice-chairman, I think) Coors official, and was himself openly gay. Still, the company responded to the rumors by establishing a full-time position for a liaison to the gay community. Mary Cheney did the job for a while. Coors still makes contributions to conservative politicians (because most of the family is conservative), but it also contributes considerable money to gay groups and causes. It passes the Lavender Screen test.
Well, I wouldn’t know, I guess, I’ve been boycotting Coors since 1968. I hear its weak-ass swill. But, like I said, I don’t know.
I respect Cheney’s Daughter for being what she is and coming out into the open.
Jack
I do so enjoy when heterosexuals make pronouncements on what is and is not acceptable to the gays.
Unless, Lib, there’s something you’d like to share with the rest of the class?
There are still quite a few gay bars that boycott Coors, and publicize this boycott.