OK, I'l just respond with this:

1. Mary Cheney doesn't care about your children, no matter how much you care about hers. Leave her children alone? Don't expect her or her political cohorts to leave yours alone. They're against children getting health care (Bush/Cheney's veto of SCHIP), they're against your children getting a decent education (NCLB), and they're rather cavalier about sending your children off to die in Iraq.

Not to mention the fact that she has never expressed any concern for the children being killed in Iraq, the hundreds of thousands of them being killed by the war her father pushed, whose campaign she worked on.

At least recognize the fact that any concern for her children is not reciprocated, even though that's no reason not to have concern for them.

2. This isn't about "disagree"in with Mary Cheney's politics. There's nothing to disagree with - she's looking out for her best interests and worked for to get a man in office whose interests are almost the same as hers and has shown what some of his friends have called a sociopathic inability to think about others. I'm looking out for mine, in general, although I try my best to think of others, even though I often fail.

But this isn't an intellectual disagreement. This is about Mary Cheney and people like her getting as much money and power as they can at the expense of everyone else. There is no logic or reason, and there's no convincing her that anyone here is right about something, like, say, the estate tax or the war in Iraq.

3. The child isn't a child. Sorry, but this kid hasn't been born yet and is a blob of cells. You can't call it a baby and expect everyone to treat it like one. It doesn't have a right to privacy, a right to bear arms, or a right to arm bears. What we're talking about is the right for Mary Cheney to cordon off parts of her life from criticism, not the right for a child who doesn't exist yet to be shielded from what's, really, an internet conversation it'll never read.

"Name Mary Cheney's child" obviously isn't about the kid or anything the kid has done (which is nothing, because the kid hasn't been born yet). It's obviously about Mary Cheney herself, since the only way to pick a name is based on her own actions and past.

4. Mary Cheney is no shrinking violet, especially when it comes to politicizing her sexuality, relationship status, and children. Stay away from her children? Remember those creepy glamor shoots the first child did with Dick to make him seem human? She worked on a major, national political campaign, and uses her sexuality when convenient to be a "liaison to the LGBT community," but then we're not supposed to bring up her personal life.

This is less "Leave celebrities' children alone!" and more like when Lynne Cheney went after Kerry for even mentioning that Mary Cheney was a lesbian during a debate a long time ago.