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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (645926)10/16/2004 8:23:19 AM
From: John Carragher  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
JOHN BACKS OFF AIDE'S CHENEY-KID JAB

By DEBORAH ORIN



October 16, 2004 -- A majority of likely voters said it was "inappropriate" for John Kerry to note that Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian during his final debate with President Bush, according to a new ABC poll.
The poll shows that by a 2-1 margin, voters said it was wrong for Kerry — when asked a question about whether homosexuality was a choice — to have noted that Mary Cheney "is a lesbian" during Wednesday's debate. A whopping 64 percent of independents called the comments improper, while 51 percent of Democrats said they felt the same way.

The poll found 80 percent of Republicans deemed the comments inappropriate.

The poll comes as Kerry rapped his own campaign manager yesterday for saying Cheney's gay daughter is "fair game" for politics.

Kerry was struggling to get past the negative fallout when he made his surprise slap at campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill. "No, I don't like that characterization. I did not know she said that . . . I would ask her not to characterize it such," Kerry told the editorial board of Iowa's Des Moines Register newspaper.

But when asked if he regretted his own remarks, Kerry replied, "No, I don't."

Republicans shot back and said Cahill's "fair game" crack shows that Kerry and running mate John Edwards were out to tell the world that Mary Cheney is gay, since Edwards also mentioned it in his debate with the vice president.

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