![]() ![]() He will stop at nothing, trashing anything that gets in his way.”Īgainst such potent political hormones, cascading through Newsom’s whole lanky body these days with the force of the Los Angeles River during a monsoon, Dahle never had a chance.Įven if Dahle could have mustered sufficient combative eloquence to butt heads with Newsom in rut, the setup was rigged. A career politician finally smelling the White House is not much different from a bull elk in the rut. They will race through the timber like huge cannonballs, trampling small trees and scraping off bloody chunks of their own hair on the unyielding bark of the big ones. Anything that sounds like a cow elk in heat will fuse the central nervous systems of every bull on the mountain. ![]() Their eyes glaze over, their ears pack up with hot wax, and their loins get heavy with blood. “The dumb bastards lose all control of themselves when the rut comes on. ![]() Here is a snippet of Thompson’s arresting prose: For the best description of Gavin Newsom’s behavior during his debate with gubernatorial challenger Brian Dahle last Sunday, one must go all the way back to Hunter Thompson’s unforgettable book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in 1972, where he compares a career politician on the scent of the presidency to a bull elk in a mating rut. ![]()
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