Dan Savage releases this item of sarcasm regarding gay marriage election outcomes, and placed at the feet of Florida Governor Charlie Crist. 

But let’s look on the bright side of the anti-gay-marriage amendments, shall we? The openly Republican governor of Florida, Charlie Crist—who got engaged to a real live girl when he was in the running to be McCain’s VP—won’t have to marry a real live girl now. Because it’s illegal for gays to get married now in Florida—right, Charlie?

Interesting.  Yesterday, the conference of Republican Governors presented some fairly odd moments, and what people were paying attention to was friction between Sarah Palin and the rest of the conference.  The friction was especially acute amongst the half a dozen 2012 presidential hopefuls in the bunch — presenting telling spittings such as this one.  Though, Crist is not in that group who have touched down in Iowa.  (Race, race, race.  It’s all one stupid race after another.)

Charlie Crist is probably basically unstoppable in his re-election bid for 2010, having just solidified a portion of Democrats by extending early voting in the election — an act which caused the famed anonymous Republican operator comment, “He just blew Florida for John McCain“.   I think that may rub his presidential ambitions in the Republicans primary a little raw, but moreso I think the supposition that he is gay likely would stop such a thing as a Republican Presidential nomination.

The rumblings are that Sarah Palin was snubbed, as (first source I can find) the governors’ vote this morning that elected, HUMAN EVENTS has just learned, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford the new chair of the Republican Governors Association, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour vice-chair, and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist chair of the RGA’s February 2009 Annual Gala in Washington, D.C.  That Governor Charlie Crist was elected to organize the Annual Gala doesn’t help Crist’s case.

Not that I care too much.  He didn’t openly (er… “openly“?)  campaign for Florida’s ballot initiative, which puts him in a different place than the gay-baiting Democratic Senate candidates in Kentucky and Mississippi.

The rumors of closeted homosexuals in elected Republican Party members swirl around, occasionally proven right and occasionally not.  I won’t mention his name, out of a sense of prudence, but there is a senator from South Carolina who is supposedly a closeted gay man.  He hasn’t been caught making out with a man yet.  But I remember a few years back seeing that a Senator from Idaho was well known to be gay.  It turned out that he wasn’t, and Larry Craig has set that matter straight.  I quote, “I am not gay; I never have been gay.”  Though, in that case, it becomes a bit of a he said / he said situation.  To further settle that matter, Craig — along with David Vitter — sponsored a “Marriage Protection Act” in that last Congress, which read like a bad Onion parody. 

In other news, Silverton’s mayor has himself some breasts.

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