In the dictionary under the listing for "Shitbag"

In San Francisco this afternoon, mayor Gavin Newsom (who is currently running for re-election) admitted to having an affair with his campaign manager's wife. In his news conference the mayor called his actions a "lapse in judgment."

Just so everyone's clear on how this works: Politicians, lazy fucks that they are, don't even get themselves elected, their campaign staffs do that for them. Politicians just show up and read a script that someone else who's way smarter than they are wrote for them about subjects that the politicians neither understand nor care about. Then they go home until the next appearance. Meanwhile their staffs go back to the office and work into the wee hours of the morning researching the issues, refining the platform, getting the word out. I know this because I worked on a campaign briefly in college. It wasn't pretty.

Basically what annoys me about this story is that it went down like this: Alex Tourk, the campaign manager was out working his ass off to get his friend Gavin Newsom elected. Gavin, being a parasitic bottom feeder (read: politician) thought he'd use the opportunity created by Alex's absence to go over and bang his buddies wife. He'd still be doing it today but he got caught.

I understand, Gavin's a politician, all that success that people worked so hard to get for him went to his head. He got a big ego, messing around is forgivable (at least by me -- he'll have to run it by his wife, but Hillary understood, so...) But look, even the lowest form of life (a politician) has to have some sort of moral compass. Don't fuck over your campaign workers.

/end rant