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As a previous poster pointed out, she was a paid operative on the Bush/Cheney campaign. She worked to elect an administration that has done everything it can to vilify gays and lesbians who didn't have the luck to be born rich and Republican.
It's not too much of a stretch to say there are probably gay and lesbian young people growing up - especially in conservative rural areas - who have been actively, tangibly harmed by this administration's hatemongering toward gay people. Yet many people, including some liberals, will get all up in arms over the "unfair" publicity surrounding Mary Cheney's pregnancy. Boohoo. Cry me a river.
This is just the latest example of the Republican attitude of "Do we we say, not as we do." If Mary Cheney receives even a small dose of the poisonous bile that she has been complicit in heaping on those less privileged than herself, well that's a good old-fashioned case of what-goes-around-comes-around. She's earned all of it and more. At least she has her Halliburton stock for consolation.
