Cheney Core Principle

"So this is just politics at its most cynical?"

"You could call it that. I call it being true to your core principle: getting reelected. But in truth, no real conservative, and I count myself as one, could like this amendment. In the first place, it has the federal government do what the states ought to -- and that's no good. But just as important, these gays and lesbians who want to marry are really true conservatives. I mean, look at some of them -- they've been together 30, 40, 50 years. Those are conservative values."