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2008-11-07 Home Front: Politix

Prop. 8 defeat could cost Newsom in long term

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Crazy Town Express, now boarding!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-11-07 01:42|| 2008-11-07 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 he's an arrogant obnoxious jerk, porking his aide's wife while lecturing others. F*ck him and his career

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-07 06:23|| 2008-11-07 06:23|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm surprised his aide didn't put a .45 slug through Newsom's head. Newsom certainly had it coming.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-07 07:37|| 2008-11-07 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Clean up on isle 3.

(please replace ".45 slug through Newsom's head" with the acronynm TWEP)

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-07 07:57|| 2008-11-07 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 I guess his aide took my advice to avoid consuming Hostess Twinkies™.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-11-07 08:02|| 2008-11-07 08:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, Besoeker, I didn't advocate it, I just said I'm surprised it didn't happen. It certainly does lots of other times in that situation. In some places, a person who catches one's spouse in flagrante delicto and does both adulterous parties down may well receive reduced sentencing since the murderer is presumed to be non compos mentis at the time of the criminal act.

BTW, what is a TWEP?

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-07 08:22|| 2008-11-07 08:22|| Front Page Top

#7 One more thing: this wasn't like him hitting on the new girl in town. The aide, Alex Tourk, was supposedly Newsom's best friend and had been so for a long time, in addition to being Newsom's campaign manager. Newsom is one cold bastard to have pulled that crap and people who do that kind of stuff generally find out that payback, when it comes, is a real bear.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-07 08:29|| 2008-11-07 08:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Terminate With Extreme Predjudice

Posted by Hellfish 2008-11-07 08:56|| 2008-11-07 08:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Gavin is a one trick pony. Anybody thinking he had a chance at statewide office is smoking something you can only buy in San Francisco.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-11-07 10:07|| 2008-11-07 10:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually, NS, you can buy it just about any where.

Newsom is a novelty that only an extraordinarily wealthy and insulated city like SF can afford. Prop 8 does not affect his career. He could not have won any state wide office, but he could be elected to represent SF in congress or the legislature.

For the rest of us, Newsom will become the answer to future trivia questions.

Posted by DoDo 2008-11-07 12:16|| 2008-11-07 12:16|| Front Page Top

#11 I can't understand what anyone expects to gain from gay marriage unless it's just a vehicle for jerks like Newsom to promote their careers. Looks like they ran outta gas but they won't give up. Now they're trying to figure out how they can get the courts to override Prop 8. I don't know how but I'm sure some liberal judge somewhere, most likely a Clinton appointee, is just waiting to oblige.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-11-07 13:01|| 2008-11-07 13:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Want to know someone dumber than Newsom? That would be his new wife, Jennifer Siebel. How dumb do you have to be to marry a divorced guy who, during his divorce (maybe just after it) screws his "best friend's" wife? Do you think the 'vow" he's going to make to you could hold water? Of course not! Stupid bimbo. Maybe she did it for the publicity or to help her struggling acting career. But if she did it thinking it was for true love, life-long honesty/mutual support she is going to be sorely dissapointed.

Posted by remoteman 2008-11-07 16:07|| 2008-11-07 16:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't worry, Gav. Ya got that illegal alien crack dealer vote sewed up. They may need the absentee ballots sent down to Guatemala though.

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-07 16:10|| 2008-11-07 16:10|| Front Page Top

#14 TWEP = "Tween Ear Parts".

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2008-11-07 18:39|| 2008-11-07 18:39|| Front Page Top

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