Kerry Clarifies Cheney Daughter Remark

I saw this story earlier today as I scanned the Headlines… and then tonight, as I watched a repeat episode of "The West Wing" on Bravo (I loooooove Bravo!! What a great invention, cable television…) the same issue was raised, and it so reinforced my viewpoint and convictions that I decided to go ahead and post about it here. You may want to shoot me… but you’ll get over it. I’m too cute to hate for long. 🙂

The democrats, or liberals, whatever you want to call them… anyway, the democrats pride themselves on being a party of inclusion, and non-labels, on being the open-minded and tolerant of all peoples and religions (except conservatives. And Christians. And evangelicals). They pride themselves on their non-judgementalism. Yet they can’t seem to understand that, for all their chest-beating, they put people into boxes with little labels more than any other group I’ve seen.

Why is it that Kerry and Edwards both felt the need to bring up the fact that Cheney’s daughter is gay? Of what consequence is it? Are they just trying to push the buttons of the rare arch-conservative who actually thinks gays are bad? Or are they just so convinced that one’s sexuality is all of who you are?

I think  it’s much more the latter than the former. I don’t think they were trying to push buttons. I think they were earnestly trying to show how inclusive and nonjudgmental they were — by bringing up a topic they think the average Republican approaches with guns loaded and aimed. They wanted to show they are the kinder, gentler party. The party who thinks all gays and lesbians are "just being who they are."

And they don’t have a clue how sycophantic, pandering, and foolish they look. And I’ll bet anything that most democrats are completely perplexed by all the hoopla surrounding Kerry’s comment… or they think it’s more proof that the republicans are homophobic.

Clueless.

Here’s the thing. Sexual orientation, race, color… they don’t make up the whole of who a person is. Unless, of course, the person chooses to make their whole life revolve around those few things.

The West Wing episode I watched — and let me just say this. West Wing is one of the, if not THE, best produced, best written and best acted shows on television right now. It is thought-provoking, funny, entertaining and just plain good. The funny thing to me is — and having worked in Hollywood for many, many years I’ve noticed this is a pattern with most liberals — they get it right, in more ways than one, more often than they will ever know. Clueless. They’re all just clueless. They stumble and crash headlong into the truth and prove the republicans/conservative "agenda/platform/values" right and the democrat/liberal ones wrong so many times, often as they attempt to portray republicans in a bad light.

It happened in the episode tonight. A republican congressman who just happens to be gay was supporting a bill defining marriage. Josh finally gets frustrated with him, asking why in the world he was in "that party" — the party, he said, "that says who you are is against the law."

The congressman then speaks precisely to my frustration over this issue — and over the Democrat party in general. He tells Josh that he agrees with 95% of the Republican party platform, things like empowering local government, individual rights not group rights, a strong defense, etc…. Then comes the punch. The thing Democrats/Liberals just cannot seem to comprehend:

"My life isn’t all about being a homosexual. It doesn’t have to be entirely about that."

Bingo! The big truth that democrats/liberals just cannot seem to wrap their brains around. For all their posturing and language, they honestly believe that sexual orientation, race, and/or creed defines a person. Why else would Kerry and Edwards make mention of Cheney’s daughter? What’s the point of bringing it up (especially when it has nothing to do with the original topic of conversation) except to point out that what she is is who she is, and all she is? Kerry says just that. "she’s just being who she was…"

This explains to a great degree why they are so opposed to individual freedom and so insistent that group rights trump individuals, quotas trump talent-grades-abilities. Because WHAT you are determines WHO you are and what you can BECOME… unless an outside force — like the government — intervenes and "helps" you make it to the next level.

And I know that every democrat reading this right now is growing angrier by the second and is convinced this is just not so. So insidious is this line of thinking that most who believe it just can’t see it for what it is.

Not until someone does something stupid. Like Kerry did last night.

Perhaps not even then. Most democrats probably won’t see it. Ever.

Kerry is wrong when he says, "she’s just being who she was… who she was born to be" when attaching that phrase to her sexual orientation. Can’t anyone see that’s akin to saying a pregnant woman is just being who she was born to be — a baby factory — or a poor black man is "just being who he was born to be…" What crap. What tripe. What bigoted, arrogant, condescending garbage.

And yet the democrats buy it, bottle it, sell it and put all their hopes in it.

They just don’t get it.