Mary Cheney

The only thing I'm going to say about the whole ridiculous Mary Cheney issue is what I said last week - that it was a non-issue except among people who already knew where they stood anyway - and that it would disappear soon enough. I am so happy, so extremely pleased Kerry floated over it entirely and paid it little mind. Except for William Safire, who wrote a typically moronic editorial about five days after it mattered anymore, the issue is really essentially already swallowed up in the oceanic wave of sound bites flowing around the last two weeks in certainly the most heated Presidential election I've ever witnessed, and thank God for it. The only real tangible lasting effect is to cast conservative's hypocritical bullshit about homosexuality in stark, blindingly stark relief. They try to cast it as a respect issue for homosexuals, when in fact there isn't a homosexual I've spoken to or read who has had any problem with Kerry's remark AT ALL. The only problems gays have had with Kerry's comments was the fact that CONSERVATIVES had a problem with it. And the gay punditry has been having a field day tearing conservative rationales to shreds. Yes, kudos to Kerry - maybe he saw that exactly this would happen and that conservatives would get all flustered and get caught in the tortured labyrinth of their own hollow rhetoric (or maybe that's the tortured labyrinth of their own hollow minds). Whether he did or not, thank God for it.