Posted on 11/04/2006 1:30:18 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(CBS 5) SAN FRANCISCO -- Voted America's favorite city to visit, San Francisco is no longer a tourist postcard, but a poster child for everything Republicans say is wrong with America.
Republicans across the nation are bashing "San Francisco values" in their campaigns against Democratic candidates.
With Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi poised to become Speaker of the House, the city has become an outright punching bag for politicians as a host of political ads running in other parts of the country are targeting her in the closing days of this campaign.
"Liberals from all over the country are giving Brad Ellsworth hundreds of thousands of dollars to cast just one vote for speaker of the house. Speaker Pelosi will then give Chairman John Conyers orders to reward millions of illegal aliens," says one television ad for Indiana Republican incumbent Congressman John Hostettler.
A radio ad featuring the voice of a Clint Eastwood impersonator also attacks Hostettler's opponent.
"Why are liberals smearing Congressman Hostettler? Because they want you to vote for Brad Ellsworth, so he can cast his first vote for speaker of the house for San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi. Speaker Pelosi will then put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda," the ad says. "Led by Barney Frank, reprimand by the house after paying for sex with a man who ran a brothel out of Congressman Frank's home."
Another ad is running in Illinois against Democrat incumbent Congresswoman Melissa Bean.
"Perhaps she doesn't want you to know that she follows Nancy Pelosi 83 percent of the time," the ad says. "That may be popular in Pelosi's San Francisco's congressional district but not in Illinois. Melissa Bean, just a Nancy Pelosi wannabe."
Everywhere, what's being called "San Francisco values" are in the bullseye.
But what does that mean?
"They're talking about deviant behavior. They're talking about a gay agenda. They're talking about liberalism, flag burning, and anti-establishment," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. "That's what they're trying to connote."
And city natives are starting to resent the ads.
"I think I've lived longer in San Francisco than any other living political figure. I'm 73 years old. I've lived all my life here," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "I think I represent, to a great extent, San Francisco values."
But picking on San Francisco isn't new. It's right out of a conservative playbook that may have run its course.
Political consultant Chris Lehane says other states are starting to want "San Francisco values" for themselves.
"The government under the Bush administration, particularly under the religious conservatives, have really imposed themselves into people's bedrooms and into people's personal lives," Lehane said. "Out here in San Francisco, people hold individual rights and liberties in very, very high regard."
Three weeks ago a dude came up to me and point-blank asked if he could give me a BJ.
The man was not crazy or inebriated, or under the influence of some drug.
Sequitur : Definition: a logical conclusion from the premises; a logical consequence
In case anyone needs the meaning of the word like I did.
Sounds like a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah to me.
South Hayward is nice...Family lives there.
Regarding Newsom..."That's what they're trying to connote."...
Fact: They do not want military recruiters near their public schools.
Fact: They are/have attempted to push through educational programs, regarding alternative lifestyles, in the primary grades in their public school system.
Regarding Feinstein..."I think I represent, to a great extent, San Francico values."
Fact: Feinstein is up for re-election. Perhaps the public should take a look at her voting record.
Regarding Lehane..."Political consultant Chris Lehane says other states are starting to want "San Francisco values" for themselves."
Fact: Lehane is paid a salary to spin. Reads like a blanket statement without any supporting facts.
Lehane.. "The government under the Bush administration.." When all else fails for the Dims..Blame it on Bush.
I'm never going to return to Mexico even though I spent eight years there. A friend just told us he had been in Northern Mexico last month, visiting a mining area when he noticed a large military base nearby. He asked what they were doing in that remote area and was told that they are there to protect the drug traffic through the area, all paid for by the drug cartels that now rule the country. The informant, a Mexican official, said that 90 % of the officers and men in the nation's military are in the pay of the cartels. How does that make you feel about going there for tourism?
My wife was shocked too. I wore jeans and t shirts or button ups. No cowboy hats and boots and I wasn't scowling either.
When I drove into SF from the Oakland airport my first thought was " Oh, I guess they have this ridiculous toll road to make it hard for the "scum" from Oakland to get in".
But not anymore.
[San Fran] city natives are starting to resent the ads.
People who live in glass houses...
No one to blame but themselves. They allowed San Fran to become the Sodom and Gomorrah of the US.
I didn't know Dianne was a crack smoking illegal alien lesbian prostitute - living off welfare and working occasionally as a hired protester or whore in order to buy some new cardboard to line her sleeping quarters under the bridge.
Sure Dianne -- you DO represent the assholes of San Fransicko - but you don't walk in their shoes -- you simply focus on keeping them shoeless and dependent upon Government for their every need.
Semper Fi
Yep, that sounds like San Francisco.
I know I am gonna get slammed for saying this, but two years of House rule under the leadership of "Old Bug Eyes" might lead to a great GOP victory in 2008.
Voted America's favorite city -- by deviants.
Rice-a-roni is no longer the San Francisco treat,now it's Astroglide.
The number one destination for those wishing to contract a lethal venereal disease. Queers obsessed with fecal material -- who could ask for more if you are into pervert pandering.
Hard to believe that the city has a football team that has won 5 Super Bowls.
Yes, I was there for that, and, along with Hitchcock's Vertigo it forms the basis for my attitude towards SF. I came back for some work in 2000, the city was still beautiful, but the people!!!!!
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