Res Publica 2005

That 64% of Americans can agree on what day it is is unbelievable, let alone reach consensus on a political comment. I just missed this one-- I heard it, I recognized it, but the impact didn't hit me until in my search of the blogosphere I saw a comment from a fellow father-of-daughters. He said he would be enraged if anyone discussed his daughter's sex life on national TV. I hadn't thought of it that way, but apparently a sizeable majority of Americans did.

Now if we could all just agree to stop watching reality TV....
 

I don't think it's so much the issue of privacy as it is the issue of Kerry and Edwards slimily attempting to politicize the Vice-President's daughter's sexuality. It was well known in 2000 that Cheney had a lesbian daughter; in fact, it contributed to Cheney's image as "gay-friendly", which supposedly reassured gay conservatives that it was okay to vote for Bush/Cheney.

I think the fact that both Edwards and Kerry chose to mention Cheney having a lesbian daughter indicated to me that Mort Kondracke's analysis was right: Kerry and co. were hoping to inform "Religious Right" voters who might not know, and thereby somehow make them shy away from voting for Bush/Cheney. Pathetic, and I think futile as well. They deserve the indignation they're getting.