Gary Bauer

State Sen. Tom McClintock received endorsements over the weekend from three different groups in his bid to represent the 4th Congressional District.

The Campaign for Working Families, the California Alliance to Protect Private Property Rights and the Sacramento Metro Chamber all endorsed McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks), who is competing against Roseville Democrat Charlie Brown.

Conservative commentator and former presidential candidate Gary Bauer opined Monday in Politico that California's Prop. 8, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, might actually help conservative candidates and causes come November's general election.

The measure, which seeks to amend the California Constitution so that it recognizes marriages as being only between a man and woman, has not been very good chances of passage by Golden State pundits, especially following May's California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex nuptials.

But Bauer thinks otherwise: