Mary Cheney strategy

[NewYorkerfromMass]

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. Smart DU

good DU.... (well that's how I felt when it was unanimous to STOP at 8 zip.)

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Leave Mary Out Of It Testy Cheney Demands (March 2nd)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1187816

[mikehiggins]

3. She is a political operative

Why let them get away with this?

Kerry and Edwards didn't bring her into the campaign. She walked in of her own free will and accord, a lesbian willingly supporting the people who want to prostitute the U.S.Constitution for political gain.

Nobody outed her. All that happened was another of the veils was lifted on just how shallow and hypocritical the Bush family values crap is.

Why doesn't someone ask her why she's supporting this administration. Does she figure she's safe from the oppression and discrimination gays encounter everyday in middle America?

Apologise? Get real.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. Indeed. dearmary.com says B/C pays her $100,000

http://www.dearmary.com/milkcarton.html

Confirmed- See: The Cheney Girls (halfway down page)

....the vice president's two grown daughters are "putting aside their careers to devote themselves to their father's political success -- Elizabeth Cheney, 37, traveling the country giving speeches for the Bush-Cheney re-election team; Mary Cheney, 35, overseeing her father's vice presidential run. . . .

"Mary Cheney, who as head of her father's campaign team earns an after-tax paycheck of $2,776 every two weeks, has tried to stay out of policy debates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A41786-2004Apr1¬Found=true

[nikatnyte]

5. Dems should do nothing

except perhaps remind people of Kerry's eloquent and compassionate words.

The Repugs are digging their own graves by making this an issue. Most people can spot the hypocrisy immediately.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. Keep Your Mouth Closed On Gay Marriage GOP Tells Lynne Cheney (7/23/04)

The wife of Vice President Dick Cheney will address the state Republican convention this week and participate in at least one fundraiser for the party, but some members of the GOP are telling her not to ring up her views on gay marriage.

Lynne Cheney caused a maelstrom within the far right of the party last week when she voiced her disapproval of the Federal Marriage Amendment. Cheney, the mother of Mary, an out lesbian, told CNN's Late Edition Sunday that marriage should be left up to the states....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2054628

[w4rma]

7. Apologizing for MENTIONING gays and lesbians will INSULT gays/lesbians.

Mary Cheney has been out for over a decade and, from what I understand, has been an activist for gay and lesbian issues for over a decade. You want Sen. Kerry for MENTIONING her? Wimps.

[depakid]

8. Where was Mary at the convention?

How long before this gets discussed?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. Lynne, Dick Cheney differ on gay marriage (7/14/04)

"Lynne Cheney, the wife of the US Vice-President, has put herself at odds with her husband and his boss by opposing a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

Mrs Cheney said the issue should be left to individual states, which is the position of the Democratic team of John Kerry and John Edwards. The Cheney's 35-year-old daughter Mary is gay.

Despite that family history, Mr Cheney supports George W. Bush's proposal to ask Congress to endorse a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages...."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,10129920,00.html

[Teaser]

10. Hide the damn threads.`

Including this one.

[KittyWampus]

11. Alan Keyes, Alan Keyes, Alan Keyes

"Mary is a sinner and a selfish hedonist"
"Mary is a sinner and a selfish hedonist"
"Mary is a sinner and a selfish hedonist"

[OneBlueSky]

12. look . . . Cheney THANKED John Edwards when he . . .

mentioned his daughter . . . so what changed in the time between the two debates? . . . nothing other than the Repugs trying to create a political issue where there is none . . .

[sangh0]

13. Kerry will not be running a Mary CHeney ad

Kerry WILL be running an ad with bush* saying he doesn't think about OBL, and then denying it during the debate.

WHat do you think Kerry wants us to talk about?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

14. Cheney Family Appearance Spotlights Absence of Lesbian Daughter (9/2/04)

This, to me, is the biggest hypocrisy:

At the Republican Convention last night, Vice President Dick Cheney gave the acceptance address and then appeared with his wife, daughter, son-in-law grandchild number 1, grandchild number 2, grandchild number 3 and, awash in the bright stage lights and swathed in blankey, infant grandchild number 4. But where was Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary? ..

"Sadly, the message last night was that Mary was not welcome to share the stage with her straight sister," said Ron Schlittler, executive director of PFLAG. "It was a missed opportunity by Lynn and Dick Cheney to show the country a family in all its diversity, sharing an exciting moment together." ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=796634

[sangh0]

15. kick

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[NewYorkerfromMass]

16. Cheney Daughter's Political Role Disappoints Some Gay Activists 8/30/04

Mary Cheney, the daughter and chief campaign manager of Vice President Dick Cheney, had just slipped out of the room at a Davenport, Iowa, town hall meeting last week when her father publicly acknowledged for the first time that she was openly lesbian and that he disagreed with the president's support for an amendment banning same-sex marriage.

If Ms. Cheney was gratified by his remarks about gay marriage, she has not let it show, two campaign aides said. But aides say she was clearly displeased the next day to find the cameras of the traveling press corps craning for shots of her face.

"She does not seek the limelight," said Mary Matalin, an adviser to Mr. Cheney and friend of the family. "It just goes with the beast that if you are in the public eye, it is going to happen. But she does not seek to be in the public eye."

As Ms. Cheney arrived in New York with her father yesterday for the Republican convention - a traditional showcase for candidates' adoring families - her role in her father's campaign is becoming a subject of intense speculation on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate. Some on each side contend that the campaign is using her presence and Mr. Cheney's comments to soften its image and appeal to moderate voters at a time when the nation's attention is focused on the convention.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/30/politics/campaign/30mary.html?ei=5070&en=4f2041a37d4bf0b9&ex=1097985600&adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1097852769-EWQGWAJYBkji7DB2DvBFdg&pagewanted=print&position=

[ibegurpard]

17. Just some anecdotal information

I don't know anyone that is talking about this. EVERYONE, however, is speculating about the Bill O'Reilly scandal.