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."
Can you imagine Pelosi running the House? I can't imagine her running a two car funeral.
Native San Franciscans are not the same as those imported from abroad, and definitely are not the same as those imported from other parts of the nation.
Well....if the shoe fits
That's impossible. How can we attack something that does not exist?
San Francisco -- it's like a major city only much smaller.
The lovely city of San Francisco is a good argument for the Neutron bomb -- same buildings and scenery and a different population.
San Francisco values = oxymoron
Kind of proves our point Comrade Feinstein. Thanks.
It's also a place where the only "scoring" occurs on the corner of 17th and Castro and not with runners on 2nd and 3rd with a crotchety Moises Alou at the plate. Not that I'm a bitter Giants fan or anything...I'm over it now...
Do they still put up signs saying, "Dogs and sailors stay off the grass" out there?
San Francisco is a cess pool, full of beggers at every corner, left wing extremists and cop haters.
Then the sixties happened.
San Francisco is the least family friendly city in America. They despise children, except as illicit sex toys.
Frisco is full of militant sexual deviants, narcissist childless singles, and drug addict bums.
And that's just for starters.
When they're done they'll have their "human rights commission" types filming your bedroom behavior to make sure you do not kow-tow to the dictates of what they call "the church".
If there's ever been a place more deserving of a return to Mexico, the San Francisco Bay area is definitely it.
Oh, absolutely. Who wouldn't want gunfights right in the middle of their city's Halloween party? (Let's leave aside for the moment the guys wearing glitter, face paint, ostrich feathers, bondage gear and assless chaps...occasionally all on the same person.)
...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."
Yes, well, Dianne, it might have escaped your notice, but outside that tight, beautiful little liberal ghetto you call home, "bring the troops home from Iraq" is a controversial proposition, rather than one to be dropped blithely into a campaign ad that otherwise sounds remarkably like "I approved this message because I love kittens and puppies".
I went THROUGH San Francisco once. I was on my way from L.A. to Seattle.
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