Chu would prefer you to be clean, "stable and more steady," and
sociable, perhaps joining him to watch a movie at home or go out to the
Metreon.
Oh, about the "going out" part, he says he'd prefer a female. "Maybe
it's just a little easier to go out on a date. Instead of just all guys
and all friends," he explains. But he added there's no pressure.
Whew, that's a relief. Sadly, Frank keeps all his signs in his room, and he promises not to bombard you with his paranoid stories at all hours.
Give Frank a call if you're interested. According to SF Weekly, his number is 4five9-9five81 in the nickel-and-dime.
For those who aren't familiar with recent SF politics (or those who have quite understandably chosen to forget), Gonzalez was the Green who challenged Gavin Newsom for mayor in 2003, resulting in the most savage example of leftist-vs.-liberal tribal warfare ever seen outside Northern Europe.
So now we know who'll be complaining about being excluded from the Vice Presidential debate between Gary Hart and Charlie Crist this fall.
Of the 20 or so
people at the cafe signing up to canvass for Gonzalez, about a quarter
were better-than-average-looking women in their 20s and 30s. I don't
mean beads 'n' patchouli good-looking, mind you; this core Gonzalez
constituency wouldn't have been out of place in a liquor ad. Several of
them stood around looking mildly nervous until the candidate
approached, whereupon they lit up, talked enthusiastically, and
gestured emphatically as if on a first date, until Gonzalez excused
himself and moved on to someone else, whereupon they went back to
looking downcast.
It appears that by accident the city's political left wing has happened
upon a gold mine: single, straight, disenfranchised San Francisco
women.
Will their Obama crush survive the return of a past love? Ladies and gentlemen, San Francisco is now in play.
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.
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.
My neighbor handed me two tickets to yesterday's 49ers game. Killer seats: 40-yard-line, lower deck, row 3. But he and his wife were as ill as everyone else in this town, and they couldn't find any friends to take the seats.
Well, it was my birthday, and I'd be damned if I was going to spend it watching punts at the 'Stick. So I sent out some messages -- no takers. Anybody want free goddamned 49ers seats? Third row?
Finally, I posted them on Craigslist for $5 each (a 93% discount off face value). Curtis from San Jose called 30 minutes later. Plugged my address into the GPS, and said he was on his way.
He never showed. I couldn't blame him.
***
For some mysterious reason, I enjoy killing valuable time on Polling Point polls. Today's poll featured an interesting thought exercise about the presidential race.
I had to rank eight of the candidates on whether I thought they embodied the following qualities: Competent, Religious, Bold, Mature, Intelligent, Shows good judgment, Moral, A strong leader, Says what he [sic] believes, Reliable, Honest. Basically 11 qualities you really want in the ever-diminishing role of Leader of the Free World (although "Religious" isn't a slam dunk for everyone).
Hillary's name popped first. After ruminating upon the past 16 years, I could only check Competent, Mature, Intelligent, and Reliable. Some of them -- Bold, Says what [s]he believes -- even seemed anathema to her.
Naturally, a simple tally of personal qualities isn't any better way to work out your voting tactics than one of those silly candidate calculators. (They keep telling me I'm a Romneyite or a Gravelista.) But at this point in the campaign, I still have to wonder what the phuck people find appealing about Hillary Clinton, the candidate for president. It's was mysterious to me even 18 months ago when I projected trouble for the inevitable Hillary campaign, because I couldn't find anybody who was particularly enthusiastic about her.
At this point, I have actually met a few Hillary backers and money harvesters, and they're invariably business big-hitters trying to get behind a winner, or middle-aged women in senior management who are thrilled about the prospect of shattering the ultimate glass ceiling. And Republicans are so depressed and freaked out about the prospect of her taking the Oval Office, that "I can beat Hillary" has surpassed "I will protect America from Iran" or "I will convert gays and deport Muslims" as their candidates' primary selling point.
If you go back and look at how I projected the 2008 presidential race 18 months ago, you'll notice that I'm no better at predicting politics than anyone on The McLaughlin Group. But this I know: since 1960, the dawn of the television age, the more charismatic and authentic candidate has won** every single election.
Hillary's persona is forced and measured, more like the last two Democratic candidates than the prior winning one. So, which of the running Republicans does she beat on authenticity and charisma?
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If you're an air-breathing, land-living, food-eating, live human, the environment has to be your number one issue for 2008. So here are how the Republican candidates for president are addressing the issue of "The Environment" on their websites during primary season:
McCain: Mostly focused on conservation. At least mentions global warming.
Thompson: Mild support of more research into reducing CO2 emissions as part of "Energy Security" issue, but also states that nobody really knows why global warming occurs. Right.
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