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An overwhelming majority of voters believes it was wrong for John F. Kerry to have mentioned in Wednesday's presidential debate that Vice President Cheney's daughter is a lesbian, according to The Washington Post tracking survey. Nearly two in three likely voters -- 64 percent -- said Kerry's comment was "inappropriate," including more than four in 10 of his supporters and half of all swing voters. A third -- 33 percent -- thought the remark was appropriate

Is Mary Cheney a gay pawn? Her father can answer that The Democratic challenger finds himself under fire from both left and right after mentioning Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter Joanna Walters in Arizona Sunday October 17, 2004 The Observer If the scandal was about John Kerry and gay porn, that would be one thing. But John Kerry and a gay pawn? Now that's something completely different. Gays and lesbians have reacted with anger to the latest twist in the US election - but not with Kerry for bringing up the subject of Vice-President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, during the...

WASHINGTON - Political consultants get six-figure salaries to figure out what turns voters for or against a candidate. Political scientists write books and scholarly papers about campaigns, focusing on the strategies that produced victory -- and defeat. You don't need an advanced poli-sci degree to know that the run for the White House depends on a couple of key voting groups: each candidate's ideological base and independents or swing voters, who often are undecided until the last minute. Appealing to both at the same time is tricky business. The just-completed presidential debates illustrate the point. President Bush and Sen. John...

Mary Cheney Labeled With the “L” Word by John Kerry October 15, 2004 11:55 PM Apparently John Kerry believes in pre-emptive strikes when it comes to the “L” word. The third debate was set up for President George W. Bush to tag Mr. Kerry with the “L” word, dubbing him as a liberal from Massachusetts. John Kerry would have none of that, after all, he made it clear in debate number two that he doesn’t believe in labels when he let loose with his whiny “stop labeling me” comment to President George W. Bush.

An overwhelming majority of voters believes it was wrong for John F. Kerry to have mentioned in Wednesday's presidential debate that Vice President Cheney's daughter is a lesbian, according to The Washington Post tracking survey. Nearly two in three likely voters -- 64 percent -- said Kerry's comment was "inappropriate," including more than four in 10 of his supporters and half of all swing voters. A third -- 33 percent -- thought the remark was appropriate. Kerry's comment touched off a rare row among family members of the two tickets, and has become one of the hottest topics on talk...

To: joe@msnbc.com Poor Mr. O'Donnell. If he doesn't hate God and religion, he certainly sounds that way. And almost as bad, he seems to have visceral disdain for Christian believers. On Friday night's Scarborough Country, Mr. O'Donnell seemed to go beserk, it was disturbing to watch, but instructive. O'Donnell's eyes bugged out, he kept on yelling "lesbian, lesbian, lesbian" like a madman. (I won't say Mr. O'Donnell acted like a B-movie demon who'd been sprinkled with holy water, but he sure was upset.) And he tried his best to keep viewers from hearing what Terry Jeffries had to say by...

President Bush gingerly waded into the controversy over John Kerry's remarks about Vice President Cheney's lesbian daughter yesterday. "The President of the United States does not believe it was appropriate for Sen. Kerry to bring [up] Mary Cheney at the debate," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan. <...snip of Kerry's stupid excuse on the subject> Mayor Bloomberg offered his 2 cents. "I think it was inappropriate," Bloomberg said. "I think everybody's orientation is their own business.... Nobody should be talking about that."

The war. The deficit. Jobs. Social Security. Medicare. Yet in this final runup to Election Day, the presidential campaign has been hijacked by such a pressing issue: Mary Cheney is gay. Call it Marygate. Sen. John Kerry and running mate Sen. John Edwards went way off-road in their respective debates to make a large point of noting that Vice President Cheney - No. 2 man in an administration that, after all, wants a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage - has a daughter who's a lesbian. It's wonderful that you love your daughter, Edwards told Cheney. I appreciate that, Cheney said,...

Sexuality issue takes brief debate spotlight President Bush said he didn't know if a person's sexual orientation is a lifestyle choice or dictated by fate. With that answer in the final of three presidential debates with challenger John Kerry, the president Wednesday night expressed the ambivalence of millions of his fellow Americans who wrestle with the problem of their attitudes about homosexuality. Mr. Kerry was less direct, but clearly came down on the side that suggests gay and lesbian individuals are born with that same-sex attraction. The truth is that neither the medical world nor theologians can say with certainty...

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CORAOPOLIS, Pa. Lynn Cheney says John Kerry's reference to her daughter in last night's debate was a "cheap and tawdry political trick." Kerry was asked by the moderator if homosexuality is a choice. He noted that Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary is a lesbian. Kerry said Mary Cheney would probably say that she was born that way. Lynn Cheney says Kerry invaded her family's privacy. She says it gave her another chance to "assess" John Kerry, and she says it only reinforced her opinion that "This is not a good man." Cheney says she's "speaking as a mom, and...

In a desperate attempt to win the White House, John Kerry and John Edwards have sunk to practicing the lowest form of politics — using the personal lives of the other candidates and their family members for political gain. Both John Kerry's and John Edwards's specific mention of the sexual orientation of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter during the debates was a deliberate and calculated political attempt to suppress religious conservative voters from turning out to the polls for President George W. Bush. During last night's presidential debate, Senator Kerry said, "If you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter,...

An overwhelming majority of voters believe it was wrong for Democratic nominee John F. Kerry to have mentioned in Wednesday's presidential debate that Vice President Cheney's daughter was a lesbian, according to the latest Washington Post tracking survey. Nearly two in three likely voters -- 64 percent -- said Kerry's comment was "inappropriate," including more than four in 10 of his own supporters and half of all swing voters. A third -- 33 percent -- thought the remark was appropriate.

Does John Kerry really think the American people will believe that he singled out Mary Cheney because he "was trying to say something positive about the way strong families deal with this issue?" "We're all God's children, Bob. And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as." --John Kerry, responding to Bob Schieffer's question,"Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?"in the third debate, October 13, 2004 "I said it in a very respectful way about their...

The head of the nation's largest gay and lesbian Republican group slammed fellow Republicans Friday for "feigning outrage" over comments by Sen. John Kerry, and called on President Bush to "stop attacking gay families on the campaign trail." Patrick Guerriero, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, said Democratic presidential nominee Kerry was "not wise" to refer to the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney during the answer to a question about homosexuality during a presidential debate Wednesday night. (Special Report: America Votes 2004, the debates) But he said Republicans "who are expressing outrage at the debate comments really have...

Sen. John Kerry's remark about Vice President Cheney's lesbian daughter during the final debate has erupted into a major political storm, with the veep calling himself an "angry father" and Kerry trying to back away from the furor. "You saw a man who will do and say anything to get elected," the vice president said yesterday at a Florida rally. "And I am not just speaking as a father here, although I am a pretty angry father." When asked Wednesday night whether they thought homosexuality was a choice, President Bush said he was unsure but Kerry said: "We're all God's...

SOMETHING ABOUT MARY 7:00 am packages or segments (not in the news blocks) about Iraq, debt, gas prices in the morning shows: 1/4 (part of a 2-way on NBC covered gas prices). NBC dedicated an entire Mary Matalin/Dee Dee Meyers/Katie Couric chat to Kerry's debate mention of Mary Cheney and the reaction to it preceded by the graphic "OVER THE LINE?" ABC opened its Begala/Carlson chat with the topic. (GMA's coverage was much more extensive yesterday.) CBS dedicated a package to it by Jim Acosta, who said that "for an experienced politician he seems to have made a rookie mistake"...

1) KERRY EX-WIFE ASSAILS ANNULMENT PROCESS Published on April 10, 1997 Author(s): Frank Phillips, Globe Staff Kerry's former wife, Julia Thorne, says she received what she considers a coldly-worded letter in November from a church official notifying her that the senator was seeking an annulment of their 12-year marriage, which ended in

The hottest post-presidential debate chatter Thursday wasn't about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, the high cost of health care or wayward scowls. It was over the appropriateness of discussing the sexual orientation of Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. While the Kerry/Edwards-Cheney family spat made for good sound bites, experts say it was little more than late-season politics at its most partisan. Mary's mother, Lynne Cheney, said Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry was "not a good man" for mentioning her 34-year-old daughter's lesbianism during Wednesday's debate. Dick Cheney said Thursday that he was "an...

...Both the veep and his wife, Lynne, reacted angrily to John Kerry's having pointedly noted in Wednesday's debate that their daughter Mary — who works for the campaign but keeps a low profile — is gay. The suspicion is that Kerry meant to damage the Republican ticket in the eyes of any voters who have a problem with Mary Cheney's sexuality — that is, in the eyes of people that Kerry considers to be bigots. Recall that Kerry's running-mate, John Edwards, also gratuitously brought up the subject.... Yesterday, Mrs. Cheney reacted furiously to Kerry's tactic, calling it "a cheap and...