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.