Or maybe I'm wrong. Shit.

Looks like the big story from the debate is not Bush's Osama bin Laden idiocy, but that vicious, gay-baiting, outing of Mary Cheney by Kerry. As Los Pants exemplified yesterday, it's silly to articulate how ridiculous this flap is when Andrew Sullivan has written so amazingly on the topic. But, while I'd really like to set both Lynn and Dick Cheney on fire, it's apparent that bringing up their daughter was a mistake. Those on both sides of the aisle are perceiving it as political opportunism. You may disagree. But I think it was was telling that when Los Pantalones and I were watching the debate with four or five other like-minded, NYC, single males, there was an audible gasp, a "no you didn't!" moment after Kerry referenced Cheney's daughter. Yes, it's disgraceful that most of America still holds deep prejudices against the homosexual community. But that's not the issue. Kerry's ham-handed handling of it is.

More than anything, though, it pisses me off that this, of all things, is the big story emerging from the debates.