Savage Politics

Dan Savage is covering the primaries at Slog!

I hope you all read his coverage of the last Republican primary, in which the raunchy/funny/brilliant sex columnist resorted to biological warfare to skew the election, lickin' religious-right loon-of-the-month Gary Bauer's doorknob while he (Dan Savage, not Gary Bauer) had the flu. This time around, he promises, "no knobs were harmed during my visit to South Carolina," but his insights are still pretty tart.

You'd think that since his entire career is based on people's inability to make sense of their bizarre sexual perversions, he'd be a big fan of the Republican party, but as it turns out, he and his partner have raised a kid together—his whole family is held together by a legal right that the GOP says should be abolished.

A quote from the best entry (so far)... Dan reports that the Huckabee supporter sitting next to him

did invite me, Terry, and DJ to come back in the summer, for a visit. He wants to meet my family—a family that he doesn’t think should, you know, exist. But still: I seem like nice people, he said. And, he told me, maybe by the time I come back to South Carolina I’ll have had a religious experience and come to God. The triumph of hope over experience rears its empty head again.

Heh.