Do Not Reward the Incompetent

While I've heard complaints about the people who campaigned against Proposition 8 in California, I've not followed it closely, but the following is unbelievable. Anyone who had anything to do with the "No on 8" campaign should never be hired as a political consultant ever again:

At the forum, Kors said turning the campaign over to the consultants was "a huge mistake."

Smith also acknowledged that the campaign should have used then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's stated opposition to Prop 8. Instead, little use was made of Obama's opposition in a letter last June to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, and right before Election Day the Yes on 8 campaign sent out a mailer featuring Obama's image and quotes that he is opposed to same-sex marriage.

"That was a close call," Smith said. "Maybe we should have."

Maybe you should have? Maybe you should have?

This is so phenomenally stupid it beggars the imagination.

Smith said that people outside the Bay Area wouldn't know what the Alice Club was, but club Co-Chair Susan Christian spoke up and said that in fact, Obama's letter to the club been widely reported, including in the New York Times.

Win or lose at the California Supreme Court, and the indications are that it will be a lose, this will be on the ballot as an initiative petition in 2010, and job 1 is to ensure that the folks who ran "No on 8" don't get into positions of authority on this.

See here, here, here, and here for better written outrage.