{"id":481,"date":"2004-09-04T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2004-09-04T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2004-09-04T19:02:48","slug":"republican-family-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Republican &#8216;Family Values&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/CheneyNoMaryRNC.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Mary Cheney, the &#8220;Vice-President&#8217;s&#8221; own daughter was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\/index.php?dish_inc=archives\/2004_08_29_dish_archive.html#109427828826853759\" target=\"_blank\">nowhere to be found<\/a> in the &#8220;Family Portrait&#8221; shot at the end of the Republican National Convention. That&#8217;s Dick, pictured at right after his speech at the RNC with all of his NON-GAY children and grandchildren accompanying him.<\/p>\n<p>As you likely know, Mary is gay, and has a &#8220;longtime companion&#8221;. Hence, apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/new_news.asp?ID=13588&#038;sd=09\/03\/04\" target=\"_blank\">she nor her partner are welcome on stage<\/a> at a Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Republican U.S. Senate Nominee for Illinois, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000460.htm\">Alan Keyes called her a &#8220;selfish hedonist&#8221;<\/a> earlier in the day. But for the Bush\/Cheney campaign who&#8217;s willing to throw over their <i>own family<\/i> to appease the Jesus-Lovin&#8217; Hatists on the right it makes one wonder if they, in fact, are the selfish hedonists here.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, so much for &#8220;Family Values&#8221; at the top of the Republican ticket. But the lip-service to it, like everything else they act like they stand for, goes on and on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Cheney, the &#8220;Vice-President&#8217;s&#8221; own daughter was nowhere to be found in the &#8220;Family Portrait&#8221; shot at the end of the Republican National Convention. That&#8217;s Dick, pictured at right after his speech at the RNC with all of his NON-GAY children and grandchildren accompanying him. As you likely know, Mary is gay, and has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}