Can I nominate this week's Mary Cheney moment as the sine qua non of Campaign 2004, the perfect embodiment of the distance between what everyone says and what they mean?
Dems: "We wished to honor the deep bonds of love between the Cheneys and their daughter, and only incidentally to remind homophobic right-wing voters that their VP candidate spawned one of the evil ones."
Reps: "It's irrelevant and grossly intrusive to bring a candidate's private life into the campaign without soft focus camerawork and smooth jazz playing in the background. Children are our future, and in our particular case the future depends on one particular child's embarrassing proclivities remaining under wraps."
Posted by Alan Allport at October 15, 2004 06:38 AM