It's Not A Tooo-mah!

Speaking of another hot mess in the making, the shenanigans for the Governor's Race in California are already getting started up. Ah-nold doesn't leave office until 2010, but San Fransisco Mayor Gavin Newson has formed an exploratory committee (along with former Governor Jerry Brown) on the Democratic side and a lot of millionaires on the Republican side are eyeing up the nod for the GOP. (Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman and others...)

Newsom was seen as controversial because by issuing marriage licenses to gay couples in 2004 willy-nilly, he was percieved by some (including me and Dianne Feinstein) to have fueled a conservative backlash that handed President Bush a second term in office- but given the State Supreme Court's ruling in favor of gay marriage earlier this year, Newsom may come out looking not like a guy who thumbed his nose at the law to appease the 'dangerous radicals of San Fransisco' (so sayeth many conservatives) and he may look like the champion of equality that many people have seen him as all along. He'll probably be facing 70 year old Jerry Brown whose name seems vaguely familiar to me- and who was governor of California before (surely that might give Brown a bit of an edge.)

The Republican Party, not really having a lot of bench strength in California would be running millionaires galore, wouldn't it? Hmmm... I know Fiorina has been bandied about as a possible VP for McCain (I think I've seen Whitman on lists as well) and the Republicans like to make the argument now and again that CEOs can manage companies, so therefore it follows they can manage things like states and companies. (Laughably, I remember a lot of hope being put on the shoulders of our current Noble Leader because he was an MBA, so they'd hoped he'd run the country like a business... not so much, huh?)

Anyway, a small preview of coming attractions perhaps. Stay tuned.