If Cheney will betray his own daughter for his $pecial interest$...

[Deja Q]

From an e-mail I received. Chilling stuff...

Ah, remember the days when "family values" meant loving your kids unconditionally, through thick and thin? Well, nowadays it apparently means throwing your daughter to the lions of political expediency.

Vice President Dick Cheney, whose own daughter Mary is a lesbian, told the Denver Post this past week that if President Bush ends up supporting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, then Mr. Cheney will support it too.

Not only is Cheney's announcement a slap in the face to his own daughter, but it's also the height of hypocrisy since Mr. Cheney told a national TV audience three years ago that gay marriage was a matter for the states and that the government should give it some kind of legal recognition. Cheney said that - of course - while running for office and trying to pretend he and Bush were moderate Republicans. To quote Jim Spencer, an opinion columnist who appears in the Denver Post, "The vice president climbed into bed with folks who think his daughter is a pervert, no better than a person who abuses children or has sex with animals."


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But one point that's been overlooked in all the press accounts about Cheney's comments is that Cheney makes it sound as if the president has yet to make up his mind about the amendment. In response to a question about his own position on the anti-gay amendment, Cheney replied: "The president is going to have to make a decision in terms of what administration policy is on this particular provision, and I will support whatever decision he makes." What's odd is that just a few weeks ago Bush came out and said he'd support the amendment, and now Cheney is saying Bush's mind is not yet made up.

So we now know that Cheney is willing to betray his daughter and his previously-stated principles at a moment's notice, but at the same time he appears to be signaling that the moment has yet to arrive. Has Bush gone soft on his previously-announced support of the anti-gay amendment? More likely, Bush is trying to have it both ways - suck up to the evangelical bigots by issuing carefully-worded (read: weasely) statements that imply support for the amendment, when in the end, he actually hasn't signed off on it at all. I can't wait till the radical right realizes Bush pulled a fast one on them.


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PS I predict that Bush will mention the importance of marriage next week in his State of the Union address, but won't mention gay marriage or the constitutional amendment. This will be in line with his attempt to suck up to the evangelical bigots, while doing it in a coded way so the rest of America won't realize it's really a slap at Mary Cheney.

- Write Mr. Cheney and ask him why he hates his daughter so much: [e-mail]

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. EXACTLY!!!!

[lovedems]

2. He will touch on the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman

without saying he is against gay marriage. There will be alot to read between the lines and is open to interpretation.

I would be willing to bet these crazy, fundie evangelicals think Cheney should turn his back on his daughter because she is an "evil sinner, destroying morality in the US". Family values are after all, only if you hold the christian belief THEY do. It is the same "you are for us or against us" and that holds true not only in terrorism but the fundie idealogy. These people are freaking nuts. Diversity should be embraced, not villianized.

[brainwashed_youth]

3. and people call

Clark a hypocrite?(yes, I have heard them call clark a hypocrite for his iraq views). Cheeny makes me sick. How could you just slap your daughter in teh face like that. I feel very sorry for her

[lovedems]

4. I guess he is a politician first and a father second. Pretty sad that

he associates himself with the "party of family values". Just one more example of the hypocrisy in which this party operates.

Edit: Is Lynne "the wife of a politician first and a mother second?"

[leesa]

5. Cheney is addicted to money. He is the equivalent of a heroin addict

His daughter will be sacrificed to the special interests that provide him with his 'drug'.

[calimary]

6. Yeah, repeat after me: Family Values.

Right, dick. So why haven't you brought out Bill Bennett to preach to us about such things, too?

[are_we_united_yet]

7. Shows the level of depth the man has

Won't even support his own daughter who in my opinion is dealing with way too much adversity.

[Robbien]

8. I believe that Cheney believes he is not betraying his daughter in this

Cheney believes he and his family are above the law. Look how brazenly he went hunting with Scalia. That is a definite conflict of interest but he does not see it that way. In his mind this law, if passed, has nothing to do with him and his.

Laws are for the little people.

[ComerPerro]

9. Family values means only one thing to Republicans:

how much is your family worth?

By that, I mean, What can you get by selling out your loved ones?

[ret5hd]

10. Please, correct me if I am wrong, but...

do I remember correctly that his daughter is actually helping in the re*-election campaign? If so, maybe we should be asking her some questions.

* -- we all know that he has yet to be elected.

[Deja Q]

11. Now that's interesting...

But as some gays turn on each other, let's not forget that there were Jews who sold out... not to forget the Africans who helped whitey take their bretheren to become slaves.

Such people will always exist.