WELL: It strikes me as a bit funny that when a Bush operative in South Carolina in 2000 noted that John McCain had a daughter who was not white, this was perceived as a horrendously low blow on the part of the Bushies. Yet, somehow, when John Kerry notes that Dick Cheney has a daughter who's a lesbian, it's beyond the pale for Republicans to complain that there might be something else going on besides merely noting a fact.
I'm not really taking a position on which is the right view to have (probably both, in both cases), but trying to excuse away something you've excoriated in the past isn't exactly the height of consistency.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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