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Book stores rushing to stock Lynne Cheney's lesbian tome

by kos

Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 09:50:36 PM PDT

You think gay marriage will destroy the institution of marriage? Check out Lynne Cheney's masterpiece, thoughtfully exerpted by the folks at WhiteHouse.org. In short, it's a lesbian novel.

Yeah, WhiteHouse.org is a spoof site (and a damn funny one), but this is legit. As you can see here and here.

Here's the kicker. Book sellers are rushing to stock the book, which the jacket describes as:

Waiting for Sophie was a world where women were treated as decorative figurines or as abject sexual vassals ... where wives were led to despise the marriage act and prostitutes pandered to husband's hunger ... where the relationship betwen women and men became a kind of guerilla warfare in which women were forced to band together for the strength they needed and at times for the love they wanted. In her effort to grasp the meaning of her sister's life and death, Sophie discovers the secret that tainted her life and begins to understand the experience of the vast majority of silent, trapped women...
An email newsletter for the publishing industry writes:
With relatively little fanfare, Penguin Group USA is reissuing in trade paper in early April a bodice-ripping romance set in the 19th century Wild West. It was first published as a $2.50 New American Library mass market paperback in 1981 and went out of print about 10 years ago. The novel, Sisters, contains a mix of standard and unusual pulp romance fare: lots of turgid prose, heaving bosoms, female characters who are proto-feminists and practice safe sex with multiple partners--and a juicy lesbian subplot. [...]

It's not the kind of title that a progressive bookstore known for its left-wing politics and large gay/lesbian inventory usually stocks, much less actively promotes to its patrons. But Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Mo., ordered 25 copies of the book as soon as it heard that Sisters was being reissued.

"People are going to buy this book, even though it's really bad," Jarek Steele, Left Bank's Webmaster, told PW. "But it's by Lynne Cheney. It's really funny, coming from someone like her--even if her daughter is a lesbian."

The book includes such lines as one female character writing to another: "Let us go away together, away from the anger and the imperatives of men. We shall find ourselves a secluded bower where they dare not venture. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you do your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl...." [...]

The connection between Cheney and her second novel was originally uncovered when Princeton University English professor Elaine Showalter published her scholarly review in the September 29, 2000 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled, "Lynne Cheney, Feminist Intellectual?" Showalter discussed what she called some of the more surprising aspects of Sisters, especially its open-minded attitudes toward feminism, considering that Cheney has been an outspoken opponent of women's studies programs.

Showalter's positive review ends: "I found Sisters surprising and impressive then, very different from Cheney's public persona. Rereading it a decade later, I am even more struck by its narrative power and daring. Historical color, forbidden passion, female bonding, whips and fires, strong opinions, scenes of morbidity and madness--Sisters is a real page-turner and would make a wonderful movie."

Hmmm....

Incidentally, the folks at WhiteHouse.org have released their first book: The White House Inc. Employee Handbook: A Staffer's Guide to Success, Profit, and Eternal Salvation Inside George W. Bush's Executive Branch. It's pretty darn funny. Check it out.

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  •  The real scoop (4.00 / 2)

    And if you think this is juicy, just wait till the Kerry campaign reveals Laura Bush's porn name!

    Prof. McCain
    By Iraq, is Pakistan near,
    While Czechoslovakia's here.
    Sunnis are Shi'a,
    Sudan is Somalia,
    and Putin's the German premier.

    by Michael D on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:11:46 PM PDT

    •  "Laura Bush" (4.00 / 6)

      i thought "Laura Bush"was her porn name.
      www.nornsisland.com

      by n69n on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:32:41 PM PDT

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      •  HA! (none / 1)

        "Let us go away together, away from the anger and the imperatives of men. We shall find ourselves a secluded bower where they dare not venture. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you do your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl...."

        she sounds like Smoove B from the Onion!!!
        I rolled!  Left Bank is the last independent bookstore in St. Louis and they are great.  How nice to see them get a mention in Kos.

        by kate mckinnon on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 12:13:14 AM PDT

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    •  Fundraiser (1.66 / 3)

      Hey Kos,
      Set up a fundraiser to pay for our Little Bo Peep to shadow Dubya on the trail with her Pet Goat (Official Mascot of the Emma E. Booker Elementary School).

      Pet Goat T-Shirts should be provided.

      And 9/11 victim Lorie Van Auken's quote can go on the back: "I couldn't stop watching the President reading to the children while my husband was burning in a building."

      Steady leadership in times of change.

      Now we all know that Laura Bush has an unusual distinction.  She actually ran a stop sign as a teenager and killed her boyfriend who was driving in a different car.

      Vehicular manslaughter is the actual charge for mistakes like this.  But you know you live in a small town when...well...I mean what are the odds?

      Something as tragic as that can lead a rural girl into porn, of course, but she needs a better name than Roadrunner.  Skiddy Marks might be a good one.  As in, watch this girl lick the skid marks off your drawers.

      But in the interest of good taste, I say we designate her School Marmelade.  

      Queue "Hot for Teacher" opening shot Laura in the teacher's lounge, with a young strapping teenager peeping in from the gym locker room.

      You take it from there.

      Booman Tribune

      by BooMan23 on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:06:12 PM PDT

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      •  Come on, that's freeper talk. (3.75 / 4)

        What is the unlovely impulse that leads some people to attack a man they don't like by saying nasty things about the women in his life? There's a stink of misogyny about it, and it's not any more fragrant when a Democrat does it to Laura Bush than when a Republican does it to Hilary Clinton. Worse, in fact -- it's more like attacking Chelsea, because it's not as if Laura has actually tried to do anything in the political arena.

        Besides, Laura is already being punished for any sins she might have committed -- she's married to a man without so much as a gram of human empathy, a man who thinks of her as the "lump in the bed" and who never once allows anyone to suggest that he might have been wrong. And Barbara Bush is her mother-in-law. My guess is she doesn't need your foul mouth to make her life hell.

        Folly is fractal: the closer you look at it, the more of it there is.

        by Canadian Reader on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:31:51 PM PDT

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        •  Freeprer (none / 1)

          Please define freeper for me so I know if I qualify.

          I agree that it it is unseemly to make comments about Laura Bush licking the fart marks in my jockeys.  And I apologize for fantasizing about such a eventuality.  I would much rather see my dog mount Dick Cheney and have his way with him.

          But sometimes I feel rage, vindictive rage, and I lose my sense of decorum.

          I never accused these cherry bingholes of murdering Vince Foster or of drug running cocaine.

          But I think it is fair game to call them THE WORST HUMAN BEINGS who have not engaged in outright genocide.

          Laura may enjoy the Brothers Karamazov but that doesn't excuse her for her husbands transgressions.

          She deserves heartburn for sticking with Dubya.

          She should do a Richard Clarke and expose her hubby for the monkey child that he is.

          Death to Smoochy.

          Booman Tribune

          by BooMan23 on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:58:06 PM PDT

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          •  Probably you don't normally qualify. (none / 1)

            Freepers: the uncouth wingnuts who inhabit the comment threads at Free Republic. By extension, a freeper discourse would be one infested, as those comment threads generally are, with name-calling, ad hominems, personal attacks, sexual slurs, and slander, against anyone perceived as an opponent.

            I don't blame you for being furious at the Bushies; in fact, I think there must be something fundamentally amiss with any Americans who are not angry at what this administration gets away with doing.

            But Laura is not her husband. And it is beyond the pale to attack a woman for choosing to stay married to her husband. That's the kind of mindset that led to the constant poisonous right-wing spewing of Hilary-hatred. I don't want to see it starting up here on dKos.

            In other words, I'm saying: Laura is not the enemy. Take a deep breath, and re-direct your fire.

            Folly is fractal: the closer you look at it, the more of it there is.

            by Canadian Reader on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 12:53:27 AM PDT

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            •  Keep it out of the gutter... (none / 1)

              Agreed.  I love Atrios' site, but the comment threads there get really vile at times.  Must Kos' go the same way?

              I'm not trying to censor anyone, but I think we do ourselves no favors here by emulating the Freepers.  It probably drives away a lot of newbie readers.  I appreciate the fact that this site offers intelligent, substantive, and, yes, passionately angry rebuttals of GOP lies and propaganda.  Our arguments will look better if we stay (mostly) out of the gutter and avoid name-calling and slurs against our opponents.

              Occasional urinal-related humor is OK, however.  :)

              More commentary @ The Situation Room

              by Geheimbundler on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 01:16:24 AM PDT

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            •  My apologies (none / 1)

              Sorry about the attack on Laura.  I got a little worked up.

              However, I think she should do the nation a favor, get a divorce and write a tell-all book.

              Then she would be forgiven by me for running stop signs and looking the other way while her husband ruins the world.

              Booman Tribune

              by BooMan23 on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 03:27:22 PM PDT

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          •  Laura Bush "a good book is like a stick" (none / 0)

            Laura may enjoy the Brothers Karamazov

            "a good book is like a stick
            you can use it to scratch an itch"
             - Laura Bush

            www.nornsisland.com

            by n69n on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 01:13:41 AM PDT

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  •  Get your tickets (4.00 / 2)

    An ad hoc theater group in downtown Manhattan called The Lynne Cheney Players recently turned this book into a play; the impression I got from the coverage is that they followed the example of the Ridiculous Theater or Pedro Almodovar and presented the lurid over-the-top material with a straight face, making it all the funnier.

    My only complaint is that the lesbianism is so clear, that there's no room for subtext; it's a lot more fun to play Spot-the-Lesbian with Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte.

    But as for subtext into the Cheney marriage, well, round up the grad students for some interdisciplinary work.

     

    by Draco on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:17:51 PM PDT

    •  Doctoral Degrees in Cheneyism (4.00 / 3)

      20 years from now, expect countless history, sociology, poly sci, and psychology PhD dissertationsto come out of the life works of Dick and Lynne Cheney. What a gold mine of sociopathy!

      The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

      by easong on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:30:21 PM PDT

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  •  All Over Red-State America... (4.00 / 2)

    ...sober, right-thinking evangelical Christian Republicans will be buying this book, underlining sentences, dog-earing pages, inserting post-it flags, anything they can do to keep track of all the offending sections, so they can go back and refer to them again and again, thinking about those women in bondage, those slutty, nasty little girls in bondage, oohhhh, they're taking off their...

    OH, Wait...

    Yeah, this stuff is really bad.  Corrupts our morals.  Gomorroah and that other place named after what that perverse act we won't talk about.  Four horsewomen of the apocolypse and all that...it should be burned before their other daughter finds it and is converted to lesbianism.  

    The revolution will not be televised, but we'll analyze it to death at The Next Hurrah.

    by DHinMI on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:22:42 PM PDT

    •  Hmmm (none / 1)

      Do you think Dick Cheney is into leather, say, in some secret location?

      The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

      by easong on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:26:19 PM PDT

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    •  I dunno . . . (none / 0)

      seems to me this book is better read when not sober . . . they might have to have a little of that medicinal wine St. Paul recommends to Timothy.

      We seek not rest but transformation. - Marge Piercy

      by Leslie in CA on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:28:21 PM PDT

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    •  We are becoming more and more like the French (none / 0)

      The obsession for political books -- one after another in this charged election year -- is making us look more and more like the French.  Although we are geographically decentralized, the net is making us as intellectually centralized as Paris.  We don't know each other, and we know each other.  Cheney's book is just another example.  I think it's great, but I loved living in Paris.  Maybe we will survive.  I doubted it for a long time.

      P.S. Moscow is like this, too.

      Knut

      by Knut Wicksell on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:06:54 PM PDT

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  •  What's With Repressed Wingnuts? (4.00 / 2)

    First Bill O'Reilly writes a porno novel, and now Lynne Cheney writes a lesbian love novel?

    What is up with these right wing freaks?

    The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

    by easong on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:24:43 PM PDT

  •  Lynne Cheney (3.50 / 2)

    has always reminded me of Mary Tyler Moore's character in "Ordinary People," the wound-up-tight mother who can't admit something about herself.  Now I know what it is.  AND now we know why Dick Cheney has put all his energy into protecting us from the forces of darkness, and where his (suppressed) drive comes from. Or, maybe they are really secret swingers or something.  This is really incredible. It also makes me think of Scott Peck's book "People of the Lie," also about people who can't face something in themselves, and so project it out onto the world, sometimes in really bizarre ways.  That, btw, is why I think Republicans of the more devious persuasion are always thinking the Dems are up to some sort of conspiracy, because they can't own up to their own VRWC.

    John McCain--he's not who you think he is.

    by Mimikatz on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:25:10 PM PDT

  •  So This Is The Difference... (none / 0)

    ...between the liberal/leftist/radical women who are are academics in the humanities, and the other 3% who are Republicans:  The 97% who are left-of-center get little or no money for writing tomes on subjects like examinations how women are portrayed in pulp novels, while the other 3% are getting rich putting out the pulp novels.  

    The revolution will not be televised, but we'll analyze it to death at The Next Hurrah.

    by DHinMI on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:30:58 PM PDT

    •  Rich? (none / 0)

      I doubt very much that Lynne made any money off this book--and for what it's worth, many authors of, shall we say, "women's fiction" are leftist in their sympathies.  And no, don't ask me how I know that--I'm constitutionally prohibited from telling you.

      We seek not rest but transformation. - Marge Piercy

      by Leslie in CA on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:35:57 PM PDT

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  •  Has there been any comment (none / 0)

    from Lynne Cheney?  Has she acknowledged writing the book?

    I don't want to buy it and possible have my $5 go to the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign.

    McCain: Less jobs, more war.

    by Unstable Isotope on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:32:53 PM PDT

  •  serious question, then... (4.00 / 2)

    a funny.

    Did Lynn Cheney use to be a feminist? This was in 1981, right?

    Heres the funny, you probably have heard it. That post about Laura Bush made me think of it.
    To get your own porn name you take the name of your first pet and then combine it with the name of the first street you lived on. Its really pretty funny what you come up with. Mine is SugarShady...LOL  sounds like one!

    I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live"-Martin Luther King The most radical revolutionary will becom

    by rwsparkle on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:34:41 PM PDT

  •  Off topic new Poll (none / 0)

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2004-03-29-politics-poll.htm

    Bush ahead of kerry... Seems strange...

    Lots of people see the world in Black and White but it is mostly just shades of grey.

    by Davinci on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:49:12 PM PDT

    •  More polls on bush kerry (none / 0)

      http://politicalwire.com/

      Lots of people see the world in Black and White but it is mostly just shades of grey.

      by Davinci on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:56:36 PM PDT

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    •  I worried about that, too. (none / 0)

      Still off track.  I hope Kos opens a thread on this.  I was surprised that the polls showed no 'Clark effect'.  Are we living in a bubble here?  We are all obsessed by this; most people aren't.  Maybe 'it is the economy, stupid.'  

      Maybe people are in denial. These are very unsettling times for ordinary Americans.  My sister bought duck tape and a months supply of provisions a year ago when we went into Iraq.  Her best friend moved into a bomb shelter.  The best friend is a wingnut, but my sister, though ditsy is a solid democrat and not stupid.  Put them in a distribution of American characters and you are probabably well within one standard deviation to the right and left of the mean.

      If you suppose that, than you have to suppose that a lot of scared people don't know what to think.  For Clark and the democrats to tell them that they are led by a people who are putting them in even greater danger is too much to take.  They'd rather not think it.  And not to think it is to stay with Bush.

      Think this through.  I'd like to know what people think (if anybody reads this), and hope that Kos will open the topic on another thread.  We have to think through the psychology.  Most of us were outraged and angered by 911, but I imagine were not fearful.  Most Americans are fearful.  I think the Kerry campaign know this, which is why they are treading lightly.  There's got to be a way to get people to face up to the fear.

      P.S. I'm a veteran of the Civil Rights movement, and we had to work through all this 40 years ago.

      Knut

      by Knut Wicksell on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:17:00 PM PDT

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      •  well, I agree with the not wanting to face it plus (none / 0)

        IMO, there's a strand of loyalty woven in. People have very "personal" memories of being comforted and inspired by that one good speech, and the uncanny impersonation of leadership & strength (macho, moralizing,but still..)that Chimpy managed (after he stopped running away)

        They don't want to give that up.  It "helped" them.  God, look at the outburst of flagstruck jingoism that followed it.

        So if you tamper with that memory, they rally 'round the guy.

        Going further into the mindset, I think the crux of the matter is that there's been a breakdown between personal experience and public experience.  People don't distinguish between them any more.  There used to be an actual difference between something that happened to you and something you saw on tv, and it appears to be gone.

        Darwinian adaptation to an endless flood of hot ticket images? Alteration of the nervous system? The right brain? I wouldn't be surprised.  After all, the attention span of many americans now works in short segments, bookended by abrupt shifts, as if to commercials.

        We act as if none of this matters, or changes us. But, in fact, everything does enter and we have changed.

        How can people trust George W Bush? how can they prefer platitudes to substance? Not just because he twists their emotions around. ( Fear on the one hand, "love of country" & loyalty, on the other.) Also,because of the conditioning of experts manipulating images.

        Sorry for the rant.  but you asked...

        by Tulip on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 10:19:44 AM PDT

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    •  Polls (none / 0)

      It seems that this year (as in the CA Recall) it may be difficult to calculate likely voters.  if there are a disproportionate number of new voters, or independents who are not regular voters, there may be undercounts.  Also, there is room for mischief in the way "likelies" are counted.  It will likely flop all over the place between now and Nov. 2.

      John McCain--he's not who you think he is.

      by Mimikatz on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:17:41 PM PDT

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      •  my thoughts (none / 0)


        1) as a former dean supporter i just can't put
           any credence into theories that those new
           unidentified voters can affect the race.

        2) perhaps, just speculation, perhaps the polls
           reflect that there are very few ambivalent
           people out there anymore.  perhaps people
           have already decided who they are voting
           for and Clarke's allegations and the WH
           attacks just provide more rationale for
           each side to entrench themselves.  I don't
           see the Clarke / ONeil facts cause true
           "red" people any pause.  They would support
           aggressive war.  The deficit and uncontrolled
           spending might get more attention.

        by JoelK in AZ on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 12:53:53 AM PDT

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    •  N-E-G-A-T-I-V-E ... A-D-V-E-R-T-I-S-I-N-G... (none / 0)

      Say it loud, say it often - that is the Republican model and it works - especially in the boonies... if Bush starts getting decent job numbers, watch him open his lead to comfortable double digits.

      Yikes.

      by dryfly on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:38:21 PM PDT

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  •  What? (none / 1)

    The book sells for $2.50? I'm guessing that's a signed copy.

    by Brian CB on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 10:53:43 PM PDT

  •  Even Eminem invokes her name (none / 1)

    I know that you got a job Mrs. Cheney but your husband's heart problem's complicated...

    by KissyO on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:05:29 PM PDT

  •  Porn name (none / 1)

    Hey, I'm Reddy Hickory. Had a beautiful collie--all white except for a reddish head. Lived on Hickory Drive. Maybe we should all copywrite these names. Some are really, really funny.

    by beck on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:07:17 PM PDT

  •  Kerry's in the scandal sheets again (none / 0)

    While waiting in line at the supermarket checkstand this evening I noted that The Globe is headlining "John Kerry's Sex Disease Scandal."  Though sorely tempted, I decided to wait for the inevitable Drudge pickup.

    by fyreflye on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:11:03 PM PDT

  •  This is great (4.00 / 2)

    The VP's daughter is lesbian.

    The VP's wife writes lesbian soft porn

    Yet the VP's little bitch, Dubya, runs the country with a palpable hatered for homosexuals.  

    And now I read that Laura Bush is an existentialist who's favorite author is Dostoevsky and who's favorite piece by the great author is The Grand Inquisitor, a white-hot screed against the consolidation of church and state.  

    Oh yeah, this is IRONY, right?  No, it's just plain fucked up.  Don't these people care about anything but power?

    "When I was an alien, cultures weren't opinions" ~ Kurt Cobain, Territorial Pissings

    by Subterranean on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:24:14 PM PDT

    •  Not Just Power (none / 1)

      They love money too.

      The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

      by easong on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:58:48 PM PDT

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    •  I'm Outraged! (none / 0)

      In fact, I think Tipper Gore should issue a statement immediately along the line of ..."I'm Tipper Gore, wife and mother.  I spent many years trying to keep America's youth from being corrupted by nasty song lyrics and along comes a sleazy, smut-peddler like Lynne Cheney undoing all of my good work!  Good Lord, can't Michael Powell or John Ascroft do anything to stop this scourge!!!"

      VOTE !! You never know, it might count!

      by PanhandleforKerry on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 12:10:26 AM PDT

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    •  I think you pretty much nailed it. (none / 0)

      It's all just completely cynical. And we're such decent, reasonable people we take them at their word, thinking they really mean this shit. Then the gears all get ground up when we find out that Lynne Cheney wrote a lesbian softcore romance novel, or that Pat Robertson thinks its God's will that a gay-pagan-abortion-loving Viennese bodybuilder should be governor of California.

      by muppet on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 02:41:45 AM PDT

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  •  Porn (none / 0)

    VP List in order of devastation to Bush's reelection prospects.
    1. John McCain
    2. Chuck Hagel
    3. David Petreaus (Commander of 101st Airborne Iraq)
    4. Bill Richardson (Arizona and Nevada put it out of reach)
    5. Anthony Zinni
    Very Qualified Candidates
    1. Rand Beers
    2. Fmr Rep. Lee Hamilton
    3. David Hackworth
    4. Rep. Harold Ford Jr.
    5. Amb. Richard Holbrooke
    6. Fmr Sen. Warren Rudman
    7. Sen. Diane Feinstein
    8. Sen. Russ Feingold
    9. Gov. Ed Rendell
    10. Mario Cuomo
    Wildcards
    1. Bill Gates
    2. Sen. Joe Biden
    3. Fmr. Sen. Bob Kerrey
    4. Eliot Spitzer
    5. Sen. Richard Shelby
    6. Sec Treasury Robert Rubin
    7. Sen. John Breaux
    8. Gov. Tom Vilsack
    9. Sen. Jay Rockefeller
    10. Sen. Olympia Snowe

    Booman Tribune

    by BooMan23 on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 11:37:51 PM PDT

  •  Off-topic, poll (none / 1)

    I'm officially disgusted. Gallup: Bush 51-47 WITHOUT NADER. Two weeks ago it was 52-44 Kerry. The Clarke thing, or something, has helped this jackass? Is this possible? O, Canada ....

    Dear Democratic Party: Win This One or Just Disband

    by Tuffie on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 12:11:00 AM PDT

    •  Keep Your Chin Up (none / 0)

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      3. % Say US Should Finish Iraq Mission 38% say bring home troops. Conservatives say War made US safer, Liberals say more dangerous.
      4. % Say Gay Couples Married in SF are "legally married" 66% say they are not. 62% say Massachusetts judges exceeded authority
        Election 2004

      Kerry 46% Bush 45%  

      (updated Monday)

      Congress: Dem 41% GOP 39%

      Bush Job Approval: 51%

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      Bush Leads In Missouri Kerry leads in Iowa Toss-up in Minnesota. Most states still lining up as they did in Election 2000.

      Bush-Kerry: Great Lakes Dead Heat Polls in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania show close races as election season begins.

      Florida: Kerry 48% Bush 45% Kerry support more solid in Florida than in most of nation.

      California: Kerry 53% Bush 44% Bush Approval at 50%

      Week-by-Week Polling Review Shows Kerry down a Point-and-a-Half Since Super Tuesday Our summary based upon 3,500 interviews each week shows a more stable view of the race for the White House.

      The 1896 Connection Before 2004, the last time America had three consecutive Presidents elected without a majority of the popular vote ended in 1896. That election reinvigorated the Republican Party and led them to control the White House for 28 of the next 36 years.

      Why We're Not Including Nader's Name in Our Survey It's not clear how many state ballots will include him... and it's unlikely he'll attract many votes if the race is close in November.

      1. % Say Presidential Results Will Impact Their Lives "A Lot" Voters attach more significance to Election 2004 than recent elections.
      2. % Think Bush Will Win 25% Pick Kerry 27% Too Close to Call
      Daschle 48% Thune 45% Both candidates viewed favorably in key South Dakota Senate race.

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      by BooMan23 on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 12:13:44 AM PDT

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  •  There's just so much weirdness (none / 0)

    to unpack in this Lynne Cheney thing I wouldn't even know where to begin. Why is it that when you get beneath the anger and bigotry of conservatives there's almost always just weirdness in abundance? No I don't mean it's weird for people in general to have written  lesbian-feminist romance novels, but yes it is weird that Lynne Cheney would have written a lesbian-feminist romance novel. What's next? Dick Cheney as gay sci-fi novelist?

    by muppet on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 02:28:45 AM PDT

  •  Check the monitor... (none / 0)

    Usually whenever Lynne Cheney publishes a new book, or has a book reissued, Dick has another heart attack.  I'm just saying.

    Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that would be one step toward obtaining it. --Henry David Thoreau

    by pam on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 06:37:46 AM PDT

  •  Perfect "scandal" (none / 0)

    It's the perfect opportunity for the right to demand a Cheney replacement (even though the book's been around for years).  A lesbian daughter and a wife who writes lesbian fiction?  Come on!

    I'm not so sure that the Bush camp would cave on replacing Cheney (for any reason but his own bowing out)...I don't think he hurts them and it would go against the whole "steady leadership" claim.

    Anyway, was this on any of the mainstream news outlets?

    by G35Guy on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 09:50:21 AM PDT

  •  Well I finally know how to..... (none / 0)

    get yall's attention!!!!! LOL
    First...In using the street name, don't use the "drive" part, OK?  ;-)
    The winner so far for female is--
    Frisky Holly

    For male it is
    Jack Jolly

    They could star together as Holly and Jolly!!

    NOW!!!!! Could someone answer my original question about Lynn Cheney?

    I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live"-Martin Luther King The most radical revolutionary will becom

    by rwsparkle on Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 11:27:24 AM PDT

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