How about this chutzpah...Andrew Sandlin thinks it's horrible what John Kerry did to poor Mary Cheney:
For John Kerry (and earlier, John Edwards) to invoke the lesbianism of Cheney's daughter as a campaign issue when in fact neither she nor the Republicans have made her sexuality an issue of any kind is worse than a punch below the belt.It is, as Mortom Kondracke implied, despicable politics. Kerry and Edwards should be ashamed.
Folks, Andrew Sandlin is a Christian Reconstructionist, for crying out loud. If he was in control of government, he would stone Mary Cheney to death. And yet another irony meter bites the dust.
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You need a hypocrite of the month category Ed. Lord knows the material is out there.
George Bush is a heterosexual.
Oops -- I am so sorry, I just violated his privacy by writing that.