8.25.2004

Sorry, No Sale by Mr. Cheney on "Kinder" Gay Platform

While Mr. Cheney did indeed come out yesterday and, perhaps for the first time in this election cycle, acknowledged that he has a gay daughter (and his wife writes gay fiction - you don't suppose the men in their lives have disappointed them, do you? (cough)), I did not buy for a minute that he was making a real statement about his views that "sounded" like a gentle departure from the rabid anti-gay (sad that "pro-family" is the euphemism they attached to pure hatred and fear) GOP platform this year.

Funny thing is, I'd like to think someone like Dick Cheney could entertain the possibility of a platform that recognizes all Americans, and not simply those who are (evangelical) Christian, in nuclear families, white, rich, etc. I listened (and then read) his words over and over again trying to decide if I believed what he said. But I couldn't even be sure that he believed what he said.

Indeed, I'm afraid it was just a "soft" touch laying the ground for a GOP convention whose speakers and overall media voice (where almost all of the main speakers are so-called moderates when the platform this year is anything but moderate), thus covering for America any perception of the reality: that the rabid nutcases have usurped the Republican party.