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Social conservative lapdogs for Cheney
By the way, has any traditionalist or social conservative (other than the author of this modest website) taken Dick Cheney to task for his stone-cold betrayal of them in the vice presidential debate? To recap for anyone who just landed on planet Earth, Edwards had said that conservatives supported the Federal Marriage Amendment in order to “divide” the country. This of course is the standard liberal indictment of conservatives, that conservatives don’t actually believe in the things they say they believe in, but are just cynically seeking power or trying to harm people. And Cheney declined to reply to this attack on the backers of the FMA, who of course include President Bush. Note that Cheney would not have needed endorse the FMA in order to defend the good faith of its supporters; he could just have replied that they are indeed sincere. But he didn’t have that in him. His demeanor as well as his refusal to reply to Edwards’s smear made it all too clear that he agreed with the smarmy North Carolinian. And that is why conservatives’ rush to Cheney’s side in the kerfuffle over Kerry’s comment about Mary Cheney is so false and pathetic. Don’t these people have any self-respect? Even the courageous and principled Concerned Women for America (as far as I can tell from a search of their website) have had nothing to say about it. They did however have a story from April 2002 about Mary Cheney and her political affiliations. She is a public homosexual, working actively on homosexual causes. She is on the board of the Republican Unity Coalition, a “gay-straight alliance” that aims to make sexual orientation a “non-issue” (what a perfect liberal formulation) in the Republican party, and to make Republicans see the non-acceptance of homosexuality as the moral equavalent of racism. That Mary Cheney is a prominent homosexual activist for the homosexual rights cause brings home the utter phoniness of the Cheney Republicans’ “outrage” over Kerry’s supposed intrusion into the Vice President’s family’s private life. Also, here’s a good letter posted at the CWA site, written in 2003 by an unhappy Republican to Vice President Cheney. The writer tells Cheney that because of the administration’s complete failure to oppose the Lawrence v. Texas decision (which invalidated all state sodomy laws and will probably have the effect of invalidating all state laws pertaining to sexual behavior), he would no longer support the Republican party. But that is a single letter, written by an anonymous individual in 2003. Where are the social conservatives now? How can they be so supine about their president’s own vice president treating them like dirt? If four years of Bush have turned conservatives into lapdogs for a liberal-leaning Republican president, what will they be like after eight years?
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