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why is this even an issue?
i dislike everything about conservative ideology--but that does not mean that i think people who subscribe to that ideology are completely subsumed by it as human beings---that they are incapable of differentiating public positions and personal life of talking one way about public matters while living very different lives beneath the surface----conservatives, like anyone diverse population, are often nice, loving people who happen to think the world through a series of premises i basically disagree with.
i see no contradiction whatsoever between people ascribing to a bizarre-o worldview and at the same time loving and accepting their children, even when that acceptance runs counter to the ideology.
nor do i see on what basis pointing out this distinction--by invoking mary cheney--- could be hurtful to cheney or bush. i really dont. if anything i imagine it would be helpful politically, in that it would point to the complexity that lay behind the conservative simplification of the world, even for those prominent within conservativeland.
on the other hand, it might function to point out the hypocrisy of the ideology--that you would have to make a distinction between public and private, that one set of prescriptions would hold for everyone else, but you yourself make exceptions, are flexible, etc etc etc,
maybe that is the problem.
and if the right sees this question in these terms, i can certainly see why they would squirm.
so squirm away.
but i do not see a cheap shot in it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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