In San Francisco, unlike the rest of the country, we're not fighting the right-wing Republicans like we should be doing. We're fighting the holier-than-thou leftist Greens. This left-versus-left fight on the local level here wastes our resources and hurts us nationally in our fights against Bush and the Republicans. So stupid. Let's put a stop to this 'green-love' right here and right now. I am not a Green. I am a liberal. I am a leftist. But I am not a Green. I am a DEM-O-CRAT. Deal with it San Francisco. And let's not forget that as the 'greens' and 'progressives' and 'holier-than-thou's' attempt to make me and other left-wing liberal Democrats feel like suddenly we're conservatives or 'right-wingers' that I am a liberal and you can't take that away from me. I'm concerned about the big picture here too. And these issues cause great concern to MY party-- the Democrats. Going 'green' won't help matters, and won't get us anywhere but more Republicans and more right-wing crap. I'm proud to be a liberal Democrat, and expect more ranting from me to come.
If Gonzalez beats Newsom in one of the nation's most Democratic communities, it would be both a public relations and a political disaster for the party. "The national press would have a field day with that,'' said Kevin Spillane, a veteran GOP political consultant. "As a partisan Republican, anything that's good for the Greens is good for us.''