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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
Wed May 16, 2012, 11:19 PM May 2012

May 2006: Mary Cheney refers to John Edwards as “total slime” during an interview with Diane Sawyer

The foul mouth of Mary Cheney
Posted by MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor in At TMV.
May 11th, 2006 | 18 responses

AMERICAblog is reporting that Mary Cheney, daughter of Dick, called John Kerry a “son of a bitch” and referred to John Edwards as “total slime” during an interview with Diane Sawyer. She even mouthed something quite vile at Edwards during the 2004 vice presidential debate (actually, something her father had previously said to Patrick Leahy). She was apparently upset that they had referred to her sexual orientation.

As John puts it, though, “the reason Kerry and Edwards mentioned Mary’s gayness is because George Bush decided to use gays as a, if not ‘the,’ political issue of the 2004 elections”. Absolutely right. Democrats aren’t united on the issue, say, of same-sex marriage, but they don’t exploit it for political gain the way Republicans do. Just look at how Republicans use it to mobilize the more bigoted elements of their base. It’s same-sex marriage, but it’s now also adoption.

All Mary Cheney shows is that profanity knows no bounds, including sexual orientation. But shouldn’t she ask her father why his Rove-driven campaign mobilized bigotry in a battle for voter turnout? Shouldn’t she ask her father’s alleged boss the same question? Shouldn’t she ask her beloved Republican Party why it insists on bashing gays and lesbians, why it includes bigots in its ranks, why it now resorts to blatant homophobia whenever its political fortunes are threatened, why it intends to use this as yet another wedge issue going forward into this fall’s midterms?

Or would the answers hit a little too close to home?

http://themoderatevoice.com/6202/the-foul-mouth-of-mary-cheney/
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May 2006: Mary Cheney refers to John Edwards as “total slime” during an interview with Diane Sawyer (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci May 2012 OP
Sadly, it's hard to dispute that. n/t pnwmom May 2012 #1
What a sad state of affairs loyalsister May 2012 #2
slime knows it's own kind n/t 2pooped2pop May 2012 #3
OK, she got one right - lynne May 2012 #4
Probably the only time rusty fender May 2012 #7
As messed up as Edwards' personal life was.... Tommy_Carcetti May 2012 #5
Oh, but having an affair if you're a Dem is FAR WORSE Tsiyu May 2012 #6
well, I didn't agree with their strategy of talking about her sexual orientation either. WI_DEM May 2012 #8

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
2. What a sad state of affairs
Thu May 17, 2012, 04:54 AM
May 2012

I basically agree with a RWer bashing one of our own. I hope he fades into the background and just lives his life after this.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,085 posts)
5. As messed up as Edwards' personal life was....
Thu May 17, 2012, 09:44 AM
May 2012

....what he did was microscopic potatoes compared to what Mary Cheney's dad and his cabal did to this country over 8 years.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
6. Oh, but having an affair if you're a Dem is FAR WORSE
Thu May 17, 2012, 10:32 AM
May 2012

on the Repuke Morality Index than killing thousands of people and sucking America's fortunes dry and reducing civil rights to just a "goddamn piece of paper."

And notice nobody talks about Schwarzenager (sp?) and his 10 year old love child AT ALL.

Hypocrite: Thy name is REPUBLICAN.


WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
8. well, I didn't agree with their strategy of talking about her sexual orientation either.
Thu May 17, 2012, 10:58 AM
May 2012

I don't think it won them many votes, either.

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