Chuck Hearts Bob

It's always fun to check in with California's blog-savvy arch-conservative, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. He loves the Internets as much as George W. Bush. He's all over it. He has a blog.

Over at Red County, DeVore has a crush on a man, and he's not afraid to tell people. "Perfection, thy name is Huff," Chuck gushes.

The object of his Huffection is Assemblyman Bob Huff from Diamond Bar, who scored 100% on the conservative California Republican Assembly rankings for 2006. (Be warned: they are keeping an eye on Republican slackers such as Assemblywoman Shirley Horton, who scored the lowest. And what is happening to Todd Spitzer? He's slipped half the way to Carole Migden status.)

Anyway, Congrats to Huff (pictured below). He is a conservative's conservative: rejecting global warming, toilets that flush only 1.3 gallons, and a ban on selling ultrasound machines to Tom Cruise.

DeVore also spends time posting TV stories that feature himself. He talks about his bill to root out terrorists at the EDD. He says the early primary is a scam. He thinks the Legislature is passing too many laws. Or, as he says: "I call it a nanny government trend."

His friends in the blogosphere pounced on this one:

"Some would suggest that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq is the nanny state on crystal meth. How would you respond to that, Chuck?"

"Sorry Chuck, as long as you support bans on Gay Marriage you deny liberty and freedom to a whole class of people simply because they are Gay. You support a nanny state on issues of morality. It is perfectly OK for religion to define marriage as between a man and a woman, but constitutionally speaking, it denys liberty and freedom to people simply on the basis of sexual orientation."

Chuck doesn't respond to the war comment. But he says about gay marriage: "Open it up and we will soon see a devout Muslim seeking to have the state recognize his marriage to four women. ... Ironically (or not) the Republican Party's founding platform was in "opposition to those twin pillars of barbarism, slavery and polygamy."

DeVore posted comments at 5:19 p.m., 6:06 p.m. and 10:02 p.m.