What will we remember from this season’s presidential debates?


I think it will be the attempt to use Mary Cheney to hurt her father. 


William Safire looks at what was behind the gambit:


“The memoir about the Kerry-Edwards campaign that will be the best seller will reveal the debate rehearsal aimed at focusing national attention on the fact that Vice President Cheney has a daughter who is a lesbian. That this twice-delivered low blow was deliberate is indisputable….”