B. Daniel Blatt
Gay Patriot
10/4/2011
…When Edwards’s running mate brought up Mary Cheney’s sexuality in the presidential debate a week later, her father concluded that
. . . it was obvious that there was a concerted effort by the Kerry-Edwards campaign to remind viewers that my daughter Mary was gay, to bring her into the debate and into the campaign. I don’t recall another instance of a candidate for the presidency attempting to use the child of an opponent for political gain. Later that evening, when Fox’s Chris Wallace asked Kerry’s campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, about the remark, she replied that my daughter was “fair game.”
Lynne was furious. She hadn’t been scheduled to speak at the post-debate rally we were attending, but she took the podium anyway, and let John Kerry have it. ”The only thing I can conclude,” she said, “is that he is not a good man. I’m speaking as a mom. What a cheap and tawdry political trick.” She was exactly right, and I told the crowd I sure was glad she was on our side.
Not a cheap and tawdry political trick, but a tactic revealing the prejudices of the Kerry-Edwards Democrats, assuming that knowledge of Mary’s sexuality would cause social conservatives to balk at voting for him.
The complete article is at Gay Patriot.
Also at Gay Patriot, WaPo/ABC News Poll: Obama’s unfavorables higher than Tea Party’s
