Internet Ads Go After Cheney's Daughter

[CatWoman]

WASHINGTON - A campaign to compel the vice president's lesbian daughter to oppose a proposed ban on gay marriage is launching its first Internet ad on Monday.

A series of simply animated cartoon panels features stick figures of Mary Cheney and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites). One image reads, "Dick's daughter sold out to help Dick run again."

The story line refers to Mary Cheney's job as director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. She held a public role as her father's assistant in the 2000 campaign and helped the GOP recruit homosexual voters during the 2002 midterm elections. She has been less visible this year while traveling with the vice president or working at campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va.

President Bush (news - web sites), meanwhile, has disturbed many gays, Republicans included, by asking Congress to move on a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the United States.

"They've clearly made the decision to keep her in the closet for this campaign," said John Aravosis, who in February launched the Web-based campaign www.DearMary.com, which started running the ad on Friday. "They clearly understand the contradiction between having a lesbian run the vice president's campaign at the same time they want to bash gays in the Constitution."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=7&u=/ap/20040618/ap_on_el_pr/mary_cheney

[terrya]

1. Good. Excuse me, but fuck that "we have to respect her privacy" bullshit.

Mary Cheney is actively working for the Bush/Cheney campaign. And as far as I know, she supports the Federal Marriage Amendment, since she hasn't said anything to the contrary.

Silence = complciity, as far as Mary is concerned.

I'm getting more than a little weary with this "but we should leave poor Mary alone" stuff I've heard. Fuck that.

[MajorFlaw]

2. Normally I would oppose dragging someone's kids into the fight,

but she chose to be a participant. She is fair game.

[Kukesa]

7. My thoughts exactly! Thanx, terrya. n/t

[olddem43]

3. If she were merely Cheney's daughter

everyone should lay off. However, by holding a public role in the campaign, she should be open to public scrutiny.

[theHandpuppet]

9. More than just a public face for dear old daddy, too

I read she is getting paid a six-figure salary for her job with the Bush/Cheney re-selection campaign. How do ya like those pieces of silver, Mary, you money-grubbing, traitorous hypocrite?

[Lostnote03]

4. Ms.Cheney....

........If I recall correctly she is employed by the taxpayers in the Governments foreign policy field of constructing, destroying, and then reconstructing Iraq.....I believe that she holds one of those positions that only the son, daughter,distant relative or college pal is qualified for.....In other words a cesspool of budding despots.....

[Gin]

5. She is fair game...take a stand Mary...you can't have it both ways.

g

[Warpy]

6. I agree, she's fair game this time, but

she didn't choose her sexuality and she didn't choose rigid right wing ideologues for parents. I imagine she's been struggling to reconcile the two things her whole life.

If she hadn't chosen to work against her own community, I'd say lay off. Since she has, go get her.

[Book Lover]

8. I have a problem appealing to Mary

and it is this. No one is going to keep her from her partner's deathbed. No one is going to get past her bodyguards to fagbash her. No one is going to deny her a living because she's gay. No one is going to deny her housing because she's gay. Eff her, I say.

[cliss]

10. One of life's little ironies.......

Big Daddy Dick sits at the helm of the Republican Party which has shown itself to be intolerant of differences. Read David Brock's book 'Blinded by the Right' and you'll get a feel for it.

Meanwhile, as Dick's star is rising politically, he is blessed with a daughter, a little girl who proclaimed to her father at some point in her life, that she had an alternative lifestyle, and there would be no grandchildren.

Imagine his shock. One child, and it had to be an "alternative" one. So who is he gathering all this money for, since there won't be any heirs? How much does he need?

I think this is God's way of playing a little joke on Dick.