Conrad has managed to work himself up into a lather of self-righteous indignation concerning something John Kerry said in the final presidential debate.
He finds it "crass" that Kerry should have mentioned that Dick Cheney’s daughter is a lesbian "for a vile and divisive political objective". Really?
So is it a secret? No. (from The Observer):
Cheney himself frequently mentions Mary as his ‘gay daughter’ on the campaign trail when he is trying to paint his party as compassionate conservatives, so being used is nothing new.
So Mary Cheney is totally unconnected with the Bush-Cheney campaign? No. (from The Guardian).
Mary Cheney is the director of vice-presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. She held a public role as her father’s assistant in the 2000 campaign, and helped the Republicans to recruit gay voters during the 2002 mid-term elections.
This has been an election of negative campaigning and personal attacks from both sides on the candidates. By the currently accepted standards this was mild stuff, possibly intended to embarass Mr Bush by highlighting that (in this regard at least) his running mate is more of a compassionate conservative than he is. Cynical maybe, but no more so than usual.
Anyway, Conrad, don’t worry – the polls are turning back in Bush’s favour. He doesn’t need your help.
Meanwhile, The Guardian has started a silly and misguided campaign to get its (liberal) readers to write to electors in the State and ask them to consider the international impact of their vote. Yesterday they printed some of the responses, and, guess what, Americans don’t take very kindly to foreigners telling them how they should vote.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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