Mort is appalled at Kerry mentioning Cheney's lesbian daughter. Thinks it was dirty pool when Edwards did it and also when Kerry did it tonight. Very low blow and Mort looks angry about it.
Kondrake is right about the meanness of kerry/edwards putting the spotlight on lesbianism in Cheney's family. But what neither kerry nor edwards understands is that swing voters won't care and the conservative base is not going to hold that against Cheney personally, much less hold it against Bush. It's just another desperate tactic from the democrats, an impotent one. So I don't see any reason for Kondrake to get himself in a lather over it.
What's sort of funny about democrats 'outing' Cheney's daughter is that most conservatives to whom that is an issue, are already well aware of it and have already condoned Cheney's perspective, whereas many liberals who are not aware of it, might be persuaded to vote for him because of his attitude.
WRT swing voters, the adversarial attitude of Kerry/Edwards when mentioning it, will tend to backfire on the liberals.