Gail Neira Proves That Not All Republicans are (d)emocrats

If you ever serve jury duty or go to a public meeting in San Francisco, have a look around, and try to estimate what percentage of the people in the room are utterly batshit. I have, and I'm going with an average of 41% crazy.

Sure, every city in the world has its share of crackhead gadflies, paranoid shut-ins, and Dragonmasters, but what really sets San Francisco's crazies apart is their sense of political entitlement. Our insane, druggy liberal-Democrat-vs.-progressive-Green rancor pretty much keeps Fox "News" in business; woe to News Corp shareholders when Bill O'Reilly's prayed-for WMD attack actually wipes us off the map. He'll have to pick on poor, defenseless Portland.

But if you think that our political nutjobbery ends with naked mayoral candidates, you are sadly mistaken, my friend. The great irony of San Francisco's lefty political landscape is that its shiniest crackpot is a Republican leader, Gail Neira.

I've shared the great gifts that Ms. Neira shares with the San Francisco citizenry before every election, her majestic, jingoist, world-going-to-hell-in-a-yukbucket arguments against ballot initiatives. Well, this week Ms. Neira, in full Santa regalia, hosted a call-it-Christmas GOP dinner which was supposed to culminate with a non-binding, utterly meaningless San Francisco presidential straw poll.

But things didn't work out exactly as Ms. Neira planned, or her apparent candidate of choice, Fred Thompson.

That's right -- Gail unilaterally canceled the straw poll because too many Ron Paul supporters showed up after dinner and paid the required $5 to vote. Allowing them to vote would obviously be unfair to those who paid the full $33 for the delicious meal. And if the Paulers threw in another $28 each? Nope, still unfair. There must have been something in the food that purified their votes.

Naturally, the Paul people are pissed about how their insurgent is being treated by the Establishment. Hell, Chris Matthews is literally removing Paul from his network's poll results.

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I was hella wrong about McCain, but I called Huckabee a year ago. I ranked him the #2 GOP candidate, behind Sen. McCain, who's looking more and more like this year's Morry Taylor (Anyone? Anyone?). I said:

Watch this guy -- The thundering Evangelicals on the right who think McCain is the Devil will flock to Huckabee. Ordained Baptist minister who also commutes more death sentences than you might expect. Health nut and marathoner who lost 100 pounds. Marriage nut. And he is -- seriously -- from a place called Hope, Arkansas.

And how are you going to compete with God?

STUDENT: Recent polls show you surging... What do you attribute this surge to?

HUCKABEE: There's only one explanation for it, and it's not a human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five thousand people. (Applause) That's the only way that our campaign can be doing what it's doing. And I'm not being facetious nor am I trying to be trite. There literally are thousands of people across this country who are praying that a little will become much, and it has. And it defies all explanation, it has confounded the pundits. And I'm enjoying every minute of them trying to figure it out, and until they look at it, from a, just experience beyond human, they'll never figure it out. And it's probably just as well. That's honestly why it's happening.

In other words, God is working against the cross-dressing adulterer Giuliani and the blasphemer cultist Romney.

And I'm still pissed that Wes Clark is ho'ing for Hillary.

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WaPo editorial on Romney's religion speech: So, no room for atheists in America?

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Finally, in trying to find Wes Clark's site, I stumbled upon the site for Ron Moss for mayor of Buffalo. His platform is perfectly brilliant and brilliantly perfect.

2. I won't change anything that will affect anyone.

3. It is imperative that we preserve our past, because Buffalo's best days are behind us. 

Ron Moss, I doubt you'll ever tire of life on the lake. But if you do, you've got a home in San Francisco.

Comments

[Richard]

Killer blog thanks!