Mary Cheney..... In 1993, she became one of the first employees of the Colorado Rockies baseball team, working in promotions when the team began playing in Denver. Thereafter she was a public relations manager for the Coors Brewing Company and worked as a gay and lesbian outreach coordinator, helping to end a national gay boycott of Coors.

Mary Cheney was one of her father's top campaign aides and closest confidantes. In July 2003 she became the director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney 2004 Presidential re-election campaign.

Regarding the Kerry answer about gays...The shameless opportunism by Dick and Lynn Cheney to score political points by feigning outrage was pathetic. Just days earlier The Veep was asked about his daughter. Go knock yourself out with the non spin version of events.

BTW- You seem to have no problem when Bush asked Webb How's your boy? Did not hear you even bring up the notion that that was off limits or an invasion of privacy.

Outside of Kerry bringing up the issue I had never heard or read about her sexual orientation.

Furthermore, as an aide to her father (on the frickin public dime), she is a public figure.

As a member of the board of directors for the Republic Unity Coalition, She said that sexual orientation should be "a non-issue for the Republican Party", with a goal of "equality for all gay and lesbian Americans." She was using her position as the daughter of a leading Republican to speak out on behalf of equality for gays and lesbians-  she was  a public figure.

When she stepped into the limelight and spoke out publicly (while campaigning with her father) for the Bush Cheney ticket, she was a public figure.

As director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney 2004 Presidential re-election campaign, she was a public figure.

She sought out the limelight and the glory, she cannot claim not to be a public figure.

As an aside, how come Lynne Cheney had a hissey fit when John Kerry and John Edwards said Dick was a good father by being accepting of his daughter's sexuality, but said nothing when the 2002 GOP Senatorial candidate in Illinois called Mary (in reference to her sexuality) a "selfish hedonist"? IOKIYAR?!

Why is it ok for Lynne to publically discuss the private personal relationships of her other (heterosexual) daughter, but Mary is off limits?

BTW: why was this such at bad thing to say:

I think the vice president and his wife love their daughter. I think they love her very much. And you can't have anything but respect for the fact that they're willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter, the fact that they embrace her. It's a wonderful thing. And there are millions of parents like that who love their children, who want their children to be happy.

Is it because the rest of the GOP were angry that Dick actually had the moral high ground on this topic?

As an aside Jimbo, kudos for your willingness to accept gay marriage. Too bad most of your fellow travelers don't.

Does this sound familar:

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.