Posted on 10/13/2008 9:41:37 PM PDT by SmithL
Gavin Newsom has always played a starring role in the same-sex marriage debate, but in recent weeks that role has turned decidedly unheroic.
The mayor has become the reluctant face of the campaign opposing same-sex unions with the help of a prominent Yes-on-Proposition 8 TV ad. Conservative blogs have been atwitter about Newsom last week officiating at the wedding of a lesbian teacher whose class of first-graders took a field trip to celebrate with her.
In many ways, Newsom has become the single best campaign tool for proponents of Prop. 8 - and that might have been inevitable, political experts said.
"His pictures have become the rallying cry for Prop. 8. It's unfortunate for him, and it's unfortunate for the anti-Prop. 8 campaign," said Barbara O'Connor, a professor of political communications at Sacramento State University. "I don't know that I would change his behavior, because he's representing his constituency, and he's been totally consistent in his position. But he's become everyone's worst nightmare."
Indeed, analysts say the mayor should be trying his best to keep out of the same-sex marriage spotlight - something that Newsom's handlers, and even the mayor himself, say he's been trying to do.
Newsom has led several college campus rallies against Prop. 8 and has hosted private fundraisers for the campaign. Last week he sent an e-mail to 20,000 supporters asking for donations to the campaign.
Eric Jaye, Newsom's chief political strategist, said the mayor has "redoubled" his efforts to support opposition to Prop. 8. "He sees it as part of his job as mayor to protect the rights of all of his constituents."
Yet for the most part Newsom has kept a low profile with the opposition campaign, and a couple of weeks ago, when asked about TV advertisements against Prop. 8, Newsom said he had no intention...
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the ad plays over and over and over.
...whether you like it or not.
Gee, maybe they should mention that the reason he’s become such an issue are his anti-democracy statements.
Maybe we’ll change our state constitution whether HE likes it or not.
They say pride goeth before a fall.
For all the FReepers who live in a sane area, Newsome’s behavior may seem puzzling.
However, as I have commented before, the liberal leftists are feral here. They just virtually never hear the other side of any issue. They are drunk with power. They can’t conceive of ever losing.
But Newsome has taken his San Francisco shenanigans and foisted them on the entire state of California. I think he may surprised to find the entire state doesn’t side with him.
...even if you tell them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kKn5LNhNto
Whether ya like or not!
This stuff doesn’t play well here in Fresno.
Wow.
“Any Twosome” Newsom strikes again!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"He's become everyone's worst nightmare" by "representing his constituency" and "I don't know that I would change his behavior" because of it; got that?
Your lifestyle "choice" is personally repugnant to the majority of the public. For thousands of years all around the world it was considered abnormal. An activist decision by the Supreme Court and homosexuals inside the AMA have made attempts to change this moral belief. But it never went to public consensus.
The public does not support it. "Live and let live" is some peoples' attitude on the matter, bringing first graders to officiate at a same sex marriage of a lesbian teacher is a down your throat, in your face, force feeding of this lifestyle. The children will be made to "change" the public consensus regardless of what their parents and church teach them when they are not at school.
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