Dan Savage appears serious about running for mayor [profanity warning], in a way. Note the understandably bitter experience Savage had trying to express his intent to run to the ever-customer-service-friendly City bureaucracy.
I don't think this addresses my lament of a serious candidate to challenge Nickels. That said, Savage is media savvy and....um..."blunt" enough a soul to truly call out some of the basic inadequacies in Seattle city government in recent years.
It's impossible for a Republican to run and win in Seattle. Yet, that doesn't mean Republicans can't enjoy watching the race.
P.S. Yes, I do note the delicious irony of titling a post "There is a God" when said post features a discussion of Dan Savage, famous for his hostility to religion. I suppose there probably won't be a faith-based component to his campaign.
But I suppose I could pray for one. Well, that and a televised debate.
"Dear heavenly Father..."
Posted by Eric Earling at March 21, 2009 01:25 PM | Email ThisI'd like to be skeptical of his chances, but with the Seattle electorate you never know.
Posted by: travis t on March 21, 2009 02:38 PMewww licking knobs ....isn't that a liberal hangup???
Posted by: hellpig on March 21, 2009 03:37 PMFrom the stanger.com, (written by Savage himself)
I go around the room licking doorknobs. They are filthy, no doubt, but there isn't time to find a rag to spit on. If for some reason I don't manage to get a pen from my mouth to Gary's hands at the conference, I want to seed his office with germs, get as many of his people sick as I can, and hopefully one of them will infect the candidate. I lick office doorknobs, bathroom doorknobs. When that's done, I start on the staplers, phones, and computer keyboards. Then I stand in the kitchen and lick the rims of all the clean coffee cups drying in the rack. I grab my coat and head out.
Posted by: travis t on March 21, 2009 04:12 PMYou don't need to make this stuff up.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 22, 2009 11:41 AMJust a random thought since "Crusader", when he isn't pretending to be a conservative, constantly pounds an anti-religious theme, actually anti-Christian one might note more accurately. Leftists don't have the courage to apply their religious intolerance to other religions. Force a woman to cover herself from head to toe in public? Hey, you'll never hear a word from the left about that. No, it's only Christianity that gets the left all worked up, along with "family values". I wonder if Dan Savage has ever written a column where he has been critical of Muslims who are certainly as opposed to homosexuality and abortion as most Christians are. For further reading about this subject please refer to how the left attempted to destroy a certain Christian, conservative female governor.
Just an observation. Hey, I could be wrong, but my BS detector started beeping when I read those comments.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 22, 2009 12:21 PMJust clearing some of that up, It seems to me that this "ya sure ya betcha" or "Crusader" or whoever is more of someone acting like a parody of an atheist and overall isn't a very good representation.
Posted by: Jstar on March 22, 2009 06:41 PMhttp://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/islamophobia
I rarely agree with Dan Savage but he showed real courage when he wrote that piece.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 22, 2009 07:39 PM