Posted 3:53 PM by Scoobie Davis

The Sky Is Blue, Too
The first headline on Andrew Sullivan's blog: "MARY CHENEY COMES OUT - AS A REPUBLICAN." Well, no shit, Dick Tracy. She's only Dick Cheney's daughter. Sullivan then says it's "splendid news" (heh heh) that Ms.Cheney is on the board of a gay Republican group. Sullivan then prattles the following: "It seems to me a quite amazing fact - and devastating to the David Brocks of the world who want to keep gays on the Democratic plantation - that the most prominent openly gay member of a first or second family in American history is a Republican." This is fatuous. To the best of my knowledge, Brock has little interest in keeping gays in the Democratic Party. If Mary Cheney wants to rub elbows with prominent GOP homophobes like Bill Bennett, Jerry Falwell, and Dick Armey (who once used his name as part of an anti-gay joke at Barney Frank's expense), then she should go for it.