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."
I don't see what's wrong with San Francisco. Afterall, the deviants have got to go somewhere. Better there than here.
Can you imagine the House being turned into a Bath House?
No, he didn't. Nixon was born in Yorba Linda in Orange County and came of age in Whittier in Los Angeles County.
San Francisco and Values is an oxymoron.
***"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." ***
Diane Feinstein=Fag hag?
There is nothing wrong with San Francisco that a 9.0 earthquake wouldn't solve.
I would NEEEVer say that any city deserved a terrorist attack, but if I did I would say SF deserves it more than anywhere else in the country. Doubt they'd get the kind of sympathy NY got.
San Francisco has a long history of being the moonbat capitol of the west coast. Oops! Scratch moonbat..should read trendsetting capitol of the west coast. There now..much more PC.
Did you have a baseball cap on with the letters N-R-A on it? That always gets libs. I would wear mine when I used to do a lot of work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
:^)
We're Americans.
We'd even pull together if SF was attacked.
It might bring them back home.
But look at how bad the NFC West was back then. That used to be good for at least 6 W's a year, depending on if the Rams had a bad year or not?
Do a search for "Emporer Norton" if you get the opportunity. It's enough to drive one very moon-batty.
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