Cheneys go mad after Kerry mentions daughter

Her parents were furious at Kerry. But others who have publicly navigated the waters of politics and homosexuality say Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife may have overreacted to what Kerry called an attempt to compliment them on how they have dealt with having a lesbian daughter.

The Cheneys went on the attack immediately after the debate, where Kerry had suggested their daughter's sexual identity was formed at birth.

"I'm a pretty angry father," said the vice president. "Cheap and tawdry political trick," charged his wife.

A campaign spokeswoman said Mary Cheney, who runs operations in the vice president's campaign office, declined to comment as is typically the case.