Mary Cheney Baby News Not Received Well By Conservative Base

The conservative base can usually be counted on to support all things Cheney, especially when we're talking about Dick "The World's Most Interesting Drunk Quail Hunter" Cheney and his birther-loving warblogger-in-waiting daughter Liz. Sadly, that penumbra of affection doesn't seem to extend all the way to Cheney's other daughter, Mary, because the righty base dislikes the way she's all gay and having children with the woman with whom she's enjoyed a long and loving relationship.

Over at Pandagon, Pam Spaulding has collected a Little Golden Treasury of priceless reactions from the Free Republic website, as they greet the news that Mary Cheney and Heather Poe have a second child on the way. Here's a taste, to whet your gag reflex:

I respect Dick Cheney, but I don't understand why he is allowing his daughter to take innocent children into her lesbianic home. Can anyone claim that these kids won't be scarred for life? So sad.

Also repugnant, IMNSHO, is the use of "they are expecting a child" when, for obvious reasons "they" could not POSSIBLY have conceived. It is the slight [sic] of hand that the left does with rediculous [sic] name reversals (like "FAMILY PLANNING") that implies something that in fact does just not happen...

As much as I don't like it, God will have to sort this out in the end.

Who is the father? Yes, you selfish lesbians, there is ALWAYS a father. Not that the baby will benefit from one. sick.

I wonder if Hallmark makes a card for this occasion? Yathink? Congratulations on your baster bastard?

Of course, the former vice president has long offered his daughter his unrelenting love and support, and very recently came out in favor of gay marriage, saying, "I think that freedom means freedom for everyone." I think that this underscores that a strong conservative argument can be made in favor of LGBT rights. I further think it underscores my bafflement that anyone would dare cross Cheney in this regard, because, dude... he will mess you up.

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Comments

[gdkzen]

The Free Republic commenter seems to be an arch-paleo­conservati­ve. I say this because, the commenter's language would indicate that he or she thinks that Dick Cheney as father should have dominion over his adult daughter.

Herein lies the dilemma with conservatives. The philosophy revolves around the idea of being resistant to change. When a conservative talks about "change", they are usually referring to rolling back foreign and domestic policies to their position in the 1950's. This is, of course, not change - but rewind.

Liberals have redefined themselves as Progressives to make clear that they embrace change. They should relabel conservatives as Resistors, to make clear that they resist any form of change.

[MindyC]

I love that one of the comments in that story wonders why Dick Cheney "lets" his adult daughter blahblahblah. Because all adult women making family decisions with their partner make sure it's OK with Daddy first. Yep, that's who I called when my husband and I decided to adopt. And we only did it, of course, after Daddy said he would let us. I guess my daughters, who were adopted and don't know either the men or women whose genes they carry, will grow up all screwed up.

It's as if these people truly cannot think beyond what someone else tells them. I agree that kids need both male and female adults in their lives, loving them, teaching them, mentoring them. But did it never occur to these morons that lesbians actually know men?? They have male friends, brothers, fathers, uncles - men who can be wonderful role models and confidants for their children. Just like gay male couples raising children have females in their lives to be involved with their children. Duh! How is the gender issue any different from single moms or dads? My daughters both have friends with two moms, and these kids are as wholesome and wonderful and compassionate - and ornery and silly - as any people I've ever met.

[TheIndependenceParty]

To Mary Cheney, I wish you good health and a safe and uneventful pregnancy and delivery.

As for this thread, ... I don't expect Conservatives to make sense, they almost never do, ... or to see that this couple seeks what we all do in life, a bit of love and happiness.

But many of us "progressives" and "liberals" who wrote here, come off sounding just as looney as the Right! If Mary Cheney didn't have the father she has, ... you would all be cheering.

[ReedYoung]

It's almost gratifying to see them (Republicans) eating their own. But when I read past the headline and think about the fact that the comments come from anonymous accounts on Free Republic, it's not really evidence of any significant division within the GOP, just their same old picking on the weak. There is no upside to the fact that one of the country's two political parties gets so much of its membership from nothing but hate.

[weatherwaxx]

If Mary Cheney didn't have the position of privilege she has... and if she weren't contributing to anti-gay candidates ... if she expressed any concern for other GLBT people who do NOT have her advantages... I would be cheering.

I pity her, growing up with that father, but I don't respect her.

[grata2ude]

This coming from the pro life hypocrites.

[MyGuyO]

By that I mean change from Repub to Dem.

[weatherwaxx]

LOL!

[MyGuyO]

Perhaps Mary Cheney should change her affiliation?

[johnfoirdfw]

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. She should not be surprised. She should be ashamed and emarassed at the company she keeps.

[lmab]

Who cares? She's a sell out just like so many other Republican hypocrites. Personally, I think all Republicans should be forbidden to breed. The world would be a much better place.

[xilduq]

She should've switched sides, had the baby, then switched back again.

[LyssaBarnes]

Will the conservatives get out of peoples bedrooms already? Enough is enough!

I'd rather have a child raised in a loving home with gay parents than growing up in the broken foster system to become a delinquent and hardened criminal later on.

[Gilliansl]

In some states, they still have antiquaited laws that require a married couple of leave their bedroom doors open a certain number of inches at night. And some states still have laws that ANYTHING other than strict missionary position is illegal.
Wonder how many "conservatives' break THOSE laws... Pot calling the cauldron black!

[Moabkid]

I certainly don't have any issue with gay couples having chidren, I'm just kind of hoping that the Cheney gene pool might become extinct in the near future.

[Jesster]

Wholeheartedly agree about the Cheney gene pool!

What I worry about is all the haters, birthers and bigots having offspring.

[Wide Stance]

lesbianic?

Conservatives are fun to laugh at.

[RockyMissouri]

Surely you know by now that perfectly 'normal' children can be raised by lesbian or gay parents.. it IS a fact that some groups choose to ignore..

[JohnJames]

Over two hundred peer-reviewed studies have confirmed it. But then what right-winger was ever bothered by those pesky facts? These are the same jokers that believe the earth is 6000 years old, after all.

[weatherwaxx]

And, amazingly, GAY kids keep appearing in HETEROSEXUAL households. Isn't it amazing?

[itsme23]

How come her big mouthed sister isn't out defending her the way she defends the like of Rush and Glen? That makes me more upset for Mary than anything, her family should really check themselves...they should be standing publically behind her!

[ThermoChemist]

"Also repugnant, IMNSHO, is the use of "they are expecting a child" when, for obvious reasons "they" could not POSSIBLY have conceived. It is the slight of hand that the left does with rediculous name reversals (like "FAMILY PLANNING") that implies something that in fact does just not happen..."

Hm; "could not POSSIBLY have conceived"­..."someth­ing that in fact does just not happen".

Mary Cheney should have just claimed an "Immaculate Conception". People believed that explanation about 2000 years ago. It might have worked again..!

: )