Good for Cindy McCain. I take back every mean thing I ever said about her. (Not her husband, though. I stand by those mean things.)

Sometimes that Cindy, she looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a Cindy, she’s got…lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eye. When she comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’. Until she bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.

What do you want to bet this is John McCain’s favorite portrait of Cindy ever?

Oh please. I can’t believe you are buying this, Kevin. Maybe Cindy is serious/means it now. But the idea of a pol or a pol’s wife (especially a Republican) vowing not to utter anything hateful is like Bill Clinton or Bristol Palin taking a celibacy vow. They may mean it at the time, but….

@Allan, does that pic remind you of “9 1/2 Weeks” or what?

Reminds me of the Shiavo godbots.

Funny how the one half of that relationship, the half that has no vote in the senate and no influence over the political process, is the one brave enough to take a stand for civil rights.

Maybe Evan Bayh’s wife can wear a band-aid over her mouth to show solidarity with the millions upon millions of Americans who must go without health care.

Good on her, whether she means it or not, seriously. Just maybe it will give a little bit of stones to some other republicans who are too scared to go first.

Holy shit!  I thought this was a joke at first.  Props to Cindy.  I think that it is her little way of saying FU to John.  Whatever the motives, it’s all right by me.

Allan, I think that you are right.

What do you want to bet this is John McCain’s favorite portrait of Cindy ever?

Here are my thoughts on this, and since my brain is so fried that I can’t form the same thought twice in a day, I’m just copying/pasting from the comments from my own post on the matter:

I think the support is genuine, but the timing is reflective of the unfortunate place where so many political people STILL are as regards our rights. She didn’t say it during the campaign, because the “conventional Village wisdom” still says that she can’t. Obama won’t support us fully for the same reasons. But Obama got it in 1995, and said so. Cindy most likely got it several years ago and is just now saying it.

It’s a net positive that she’s doing this, and what I think it does is, in a non-threatening way, gives a space for people who still call themselves Republicans but are secretly grossed out by the influence of the religious right on the party to start casually acknowledging at dinner parties, “well, sure, I can’t see why gay people shouldn’t get married, I mean, even Cindy McCain supports it.”

I see sort of a parallel, though, with abortion rights. It’s an open secret that the last three Republican First Ladies have been pro-choice, but yet the party platform, which is set by ancient Viagra-dependent white men, is still fiercely anti-woman.

I agree with the idea that if we forced mandatory retirement for Senators after, oh, 65 or so, the country would LEAP forward in human rights, but as it is, Scott Brown is the new sexy young buck in the Senate and he’s what, Obama’s age?

Obama may have gotten it in 1995, but he lost it somewhere along the way. That’s why the lawyers for the defenders of Prop 8 are continually using his example of what he thinks a marriage should be—man and woman—in the ongoing trial in California.

Maybe it’s 31st dimension chess or something.

So Cindy has joined John on the left. First there was his failure to take on the overriding issue of the campaign: why hasn’t Obama proven he’s legally eligible to be President? There there was his fascist complicity in the takeover of the US banking system. Americans need to wake up. Republicans have joined the gay/communist revolution. We must vote our own kind into office or see America perish.

why hasn’t Obama proven he’s legally eligible to be President?

Uh-huh, I sure remember all of those roundtables of talking heads pondering this question.

Wait, no I don’t. It wasn;t an issue then and it’s still not an issue, well, except for the dipshits.

the overriding issue of the campaign

I just pissed myself, laughing.  Fucking bollocks, that is good stuff!

Seemore, is your last name Butts?

But seriously folks, I do give Cindy a lot of credit for this.

The most compelling statistic I saw during 2008 was from a survey of delegates to the Republican convention.  Fully half of them supported either same-sex marriage or civil unions.

They just can’t say so out loud.

Republican non-homophobes are living in their own closet.

why hasn’t Obama proven he’s legally eligible to be President?

Because everyone who counts already knows. 

We must vote our own kind into office or see America perish.

I can’t think of any “kind” that would include both you and me.

They just can’t say so out loud.

Unfortunately, a lot of Dems don’t think they can either. I call bullshit on that.

Good for Cindy! I hope she does encourage other people of both parties to stop dicking around and call for what’s right.

Okay, now we can start counting the good things that Cindy McCain has done in her life; that’s one.

Turning Cruella de Vile into something vaguely resembling Dakota Fanning?
The power of airbrushing never fails to amaze me.