The Unbearable Lightness of Being Gavin Newsom
Deroy Murdock
If you vote for Gavin Newsom for president, what do you get?
If you find out, tell him. He would love to know.
The Democrat governor of California recently had occasion to explain what to expect if he entered the Oval Office on January 20, 2029.
Alas for Newsom, his not-ready-for-primetime response recalled other politicians who had no clue why they ran for office.
In Michael Ritchie’s film The Candidate, Bill McKay (the great, recently late Robert Redford) wins a U.S. Senate seat. On Election Night, he is adrift. He is a victorious, albeit empty, vessel. He hides from his adoring crowd just long enough to corner his campaign manager (Peter Boyle) and plead: “What do we do now?”
NBC News anchor Roger Mudd tossed U.S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy the softest of underhand softballs in a November 4, 1979, interview. The Massachusetts Democrat swung, missed, and spun himself onto the ground — as if undone by an Aroldis Chapman fastball.
Mudd asked: “Why do you want to be president?”
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