Fair Game?

Deacon at Powerline has a good post on John Kerry's gratutitous mentioning of the fact the Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian last night. I personally believe that this is a tactic designed to keep certain Bush voters home on election day. It certainly did not add any meaningful information to the debate, unless the generic data that Republicans have gay children too is somehow signifigant. Singling the Cheney daughter out in that fashion struck me as very crass and unbecoming of Senator Kerry. Senator Edwards made some remarks in a similar fashion in his debate with the Vice President, but at least Edwards disguised his remarks as a complement to Cheney. A candidate's children should be pretty much off limits for Political opponants, unless they insert themselves in some fashion into the political questions of the day.