Today's Howard Kurtz column focuses on the attention given to Mary Cheney's pregnancy. His argument, right up near the front in paragraph two, is that it's unfair to her because she didn't ask to be a vice-president's daughter. I would agree - of course she didn't ask for that - but she did voluntarily work on her father's campaigns, campaigns that were based in part on willfully denying legal rights to a group of which she is a member. And while I appreciate any attempts to try to change bigoted thinking from within, it still reeks of sleeping with the enemy, dancing with the devil, et cetera [insert equally tired metaphor here]. Similar to my utter bafflement that a group like the Log Cabin Republicans can exist, it's difficult for me to be very sympathetic towards someone who's been employed by a White House political machine that courts the votes of the intolerant, who are attacking her now for exercising her right to have a kid.
Put it this way: her father is the political equivalent of Darth Vader, that makes her Leia - or Luke, I suppose. If Leia had worked for the Empire, (but secretly hoped to change it into a kinder, gentler force for evil) would any tears have been shed were she onboard the Death Star when Luke blew it up at the end of the first movie? Nope.
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