If President Barack
Obama doesn't take a stand for marriage equality in 2010,
who will? Dick Cheney, anyone? Yep, that's right, man of
torture, Darth Vader to Obama's Luke Skywalker, Cheney will
roll up his sleeves and do the right thing, says MSNBC's
Carlos Watson in his latest video post.
If President Barack
Obama doesn't take a stand for marriage equality in 2010,
who will? Dick Cheney, anyone? Yep, that's right, man of
torture, Darth Vader to Obama's Luke Skywalker, Cheney will
roll up his sleeves and do the right thing, says MSNBC's
Carlos Watson in his
latest video post.
Here's Watson's
logic: "First you gotta remember the background -- that
Cheney's daughter Mary Cheney is gay; and that
Cheney said in the 2004 vice presidential debates this is the
one topic -- same-sex marriage -- that he disagreed with
[President Bush] on and would say so openly. You've also
gotta remember that Meghan McCain, John McCain's daughter,
has come out openly about it and that Cheney's former chief
of staff, Steve Schmidt -- bald guy, know him? -- who later ran
McCain's campaign, he made a big pronouncement about
it."
OK, let's suspend
logic and go for broke for a second. Watson continues:
"It's precisely because he's burnished his Darth
Vader credentials over the last eight weeks, that when he
finally weighs in on this issue, it will be better than Nixon
going to China. It will grab everyone's
attention."
If Watson is right, it
would be just beautiful watching the Christian right go crazy,
Cheney's GOP counterparts run for cover, and best yet, what
the heck would Rush Limbaugh, titular head of the GOP, say
about the man he recently called "one lone voice in the
Republican Party" and said was solely "motivated by
love for his country"?
OK, back to the real
world. Still not convinced? Well, at least take this into
consideration -- Watson interviewed Liz Cheney on MSNBC
Thursday. Wonder what they talked about when the cameras
weren't rolling?
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