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Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman used to be a defense attorney for the mob, and he's now planning a run to be governor of Nevada ... on a platform of booze and ladies.

Well, we'll give him this, at least he's honest. And he has pretty good taste in gin.

Not that the latter should be too helpful in a gubernatorial race. But that's what Oscar's got going for him. Even though he has confessed things like "if I'm governor, I'll cavort with showgirls and I'll keep drinking my gin and betting on anything that moves" to the Philadelphia Inquirer, he's ahead in the polls. (Las Vegas -- what a place!)

Notably, Oscar also told a class of fourth graders that if he had to choose, he would take a bottle of gin and a showgirl with him to be stranded on a desert island. He's ... he's an Independent.

Now that Massachusetts has elected a dude who stripped down naked for Cosmo to be their senator, and we've got a president who's tried coke, maybe people just don't care about politician's personal life anymore. As long as we're heading into the new decade by electing unabashed hedonists, look for us to run for city comptroller on the onion rings and porn ticket.

Lemondrop in 2010!