San Franciso Mayor Gavin Newsom is on Hardball right now committing political fratricide, claiming 1) that the Democratic Party should basically be willing to lose elections over the issue of gay marriage, because principles matter more than victory, and 2) that he somehow knows that many Dems who say publicly that they are against gay marriage are really for it in private, including the party's likely 2008 nominee Hillary ("deep down in her soul," he wagers).
He also claims the party paid no political price in the November elections for his unilateral decision to perform gay marriages in 2003. (The election was about security, he says, and those 14 state marriage amendments that buried John Kerry, including Ohio and almost in Michigan -- never happened. Florida's turn comes in 2006, when the last statewide Democrat standing, Sen. Bill Nelson, is up fo reelection. As someone who sweated it out for John Kerry in the trenches, only to see masses of religious African-American and Caribbean voters in Florida abandon us over this issue and vote for George W. Bush, I beg to differ with Mayor Newsom...)
Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of Gavin Newsom's national political capital circling the drain (and his grassroots political capital hitting the roof).
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"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
