At the beggining of the 3rd Presidential debate last night Kerry was asked if he thought people were born homosexual.

In an effort that WILL backfire, Kerry expalined his views on homosexuality by using (of all the people in the world he could have used) a person whom he's never spoken with (Dick Cheney's daughter). Dick and Lynne Cheney's daughter is a lesbian and her parents love her like good parents love all their children--unconditionally.

Kerry could have easily cited Barney Frank (from Massachusetts) or some other PUBLIC figure he actually knows he is openly OUT to use as an example. He didn't do this, he tried to use Dick Cheney's daughter (again--who he has never talked to) to explain how SHE feels.

He did this in a thinly vailed attempt to try and hurt Cheney with a small handfull (if they even exist in 2004) of people that would hold that against someone.

The fact is that Cheney is a man that loves his daughters unconditonally like any good father would.

As stated in the begining of this rant, this WILL backfire on Kerry--the Media has jumped on and spoke of this "DIRTY TRICK' and people all across the nation saw Kerry for the little man that he is.

Kerry had the majority of the gay vote, I bet not a few of them who are senisitve to "outing" (especially for insesitive shameless arttempt for political gain) will now choose to sit this out.
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ELIZABETH EDWARDS ACCUSES LYNNE CHENEY OF "SHAME" OF HER DAUGHTER, QUESTIONS HER CRITICISM OF KERRY'S MARY CHENEY REFERENCE


ELIZABETH EDWARDS ON ABC RADIO: "She's overreacted to this and treated it as if it's shameful to have this discussion. I think that's a very sad state of affairs… I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences… It makes me really sad that that's Lynne's response."


LYNNE CHENEY AT POST-DEBATE RALLY: "The only thing I could conclude is that this is not a good man. This is not a good man. And, of course, I'm speaking as a mom. And a pretty indignant one. This is not a good man. What a cheap and tawdry political trick."


DICK CHENEY TO NBC AFFILIATE WHO: "I would have said Sen. Kerry was out of line to bring my daughter into it. I thought it was totally inappropriate."


WHAT KERRY SAID: "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."


KERRY CAMPAIGN: Senior Kerry aide acknowledges "it was not his best moment," but calls charges that it was inappropriate "ridiculous… The woman is in her thirties. She's public about her sexuality. It was brought up in the last debate. So, what the hell?" ABC News' Marc Ambinder reports…