The Gay, Jewish, Pro-Pot Republican Candidate Has Something to Say

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“If gay marriage were legalized, I’d have been married twice—and divorced twice. Just like Newt Gingrich,” says Fred Karger, who makes the comparison pointedly.

Karger, too, is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination—one of five remaining, if you count him. A moderate who garnered about 1 percent of the vote in Michigan’s open primary, Karger is struggling to join the national dialogue and is gearing up for California’s June 5 ballot.

On a recent balmy Los Angeles evening, the kind that has frothy foliage pumping heady scents down from the Hollywood Hills—scents that inspired designer Tom Ford’s Black Orchid perfume—a crowd of enthusiastic supporters flocks to a Los Feliz residence, galvanized by a single issue rhetorically proffered by one guest as marriage equality.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_gay_jewish_pro-pot_republican_candidate_has_something_to_say_20120321/

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Back in the day, this would have been really big news......

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1. Those days are gone - now if it don't bleed...

...it don't lead. Also, the bleeding has to be controversial.

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