As Slate reported earlier this week, republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani's daughter Caroline defined herself as "liberal" on her Facebook profile, and even belonged to a group called "Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)." While this could be problematic for a republican candidate in a field dominated by "family values" politicians who put their loving, supportive families front and center, it is not the first time a young woman has stood in firm opposition to her father's politics. Here is a look back at some political daughters who've strayed from the patriarchal line.
Maya Keyes
Father Alan Keyes, a former Reagan administration diplomat, has made a name for himself on the national stage by running for the Presidency in 2000, and the Illinois Senate in 2004, on strict anti-homosexual and anti-abortion platforms. Which is why his daughter, Maya, is so great, what with being a big pro-life lesbian and also taking part in the anarchist movement. Also she looks like Angela Davis and Grace Jones had a baby with the future.
Mary Cheney
Vice President Dick Cheney, best known for ruining the world while simultaneously shooting his friend in the face, has worked hard to turn the clock back on homosexual rights in the United States. His daughter Mary, while seemingly incapable of renouncing her father's harshly anti-gay politics (even working as his director of vice presidential affairs in the 2004 election), continues to be a sexually active lesbian who is now raising a daughter with her gay lesbian partner. It's a silent protest, apparently. Maybe her mouth is too busy performing oral sex to say anything about the ridiculousness of the Federal Marriage Amendment.
Patti Davis
This daughter of former president Ronald Reagan has long been considered the "black sheep" of the family for her highly publicized liberal views that fly in the face of the conservative movement's greatest hero. But sometimes, pictures speak so much louder than words.
And of course she poses with a black guy. Ding dong.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams
Strom Thurmond was one of the last great bastions of defiant southern bigotry in the United States senate before his death in 2003 at the tender age of 582 years old. He made history in 1957 by staging the longest Congressional filibuster, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act. So the mere fact of his mixed-race illegitimate daughter is like getting a blowjob from a pizza on your own diamond hovercraft on the way to the Free iPhone Factory, but with seriously important messages about tolerance and the fundamental inhumanity of racism. The fact that she didn't make herself known until after Thurmond's death is kind of a big "fuck you" to the hardships a lot of people suffered under leaders like her father, but still, awesome that you are alive, Ms. Washington-Williams. Good job.
Caroline Giuliani has removed herself from the Barack Obama Facebook group. Mary Cheney is still very much gay.