Hey Stew,

Pull your pants down if your going to talk out of your A$$!

Laura Ingraham's brother is gay and she not only loves him dearly, she has him and his partner on her show from time to time.
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The point that seems to allude most of the 'enlightened' left is their own hypocricy on this issue.

Kerry clearly crossed a line.

The children of candidates have historically been hands off to opponents or their campaign efforts.

It was clear Kerry had planned to bring up the fact of Mary Cheney's sexuality before the debate, the way he managed to do it seemed contrived (Little Johnny did the same little trick during th VP debate-but with the smoothness of a Gemini tongue it largely went unnoticed).

Turn the tables and imagine what the reaction of the left (enlightened liberals) would have been if Bush had tried to make some political gain by using the same tawdy political trick on Kerry or Edwards if they had a child that was a gay or lesbian (without ever meeting that child or having talked to them about anything--much less their personal feelings).

They would scream that Bush was an insensitive homophobe that deserved to be burned at the stake.

The way Kerry's campaign camp talked about the issue afterwards makes it quite clear that this was discussed/planned in advance.

Out of all the openly out and public gay/lesbians Kerry could have referenced (that he could actually says he knows and have talked to about their thoughts on personal issues) that didn't happen to be the offspring of his opponent--He chose Mary Cheney (who he has never talked to but feels free to quote how she feels). Like Alanis says, "Isn't it Ironic?"

What a scumbag!

Mrs. Edwards comments are particularly digusting:

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."