Betting on 'Closet Republicans' in San Francisco

[AlphaCentauri]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Facing a hemorrhage of seats in both the House and the Senate, and declining approval ratings, the Republican Party’s future may lie where least expected--in arguably the bluest region in the blue state of California—the San Francisco Bay Area.

Thirty-four year-old Sashi Sabaratnam McEntee, a successful business consultant, is the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants. A California native who grew up in Los Angeles, she’s been in the Bay Area for 15 years and resides in Marin County with her husband, former race-car driver David McEntee.

A committed Republican, she may represent the new face of the GOP—a young, enthusiastic woman of color, a globalist who believes in fiscal responsibility and limited government.

“My parents belonged to different religions and had to come in order to get married,” says McEntee, whose father is Hindu and mother is Muslim. They immigrated to the United States to escape the complications of an interfaith marriage in Sri Lanka.

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=0bea3733333d60597a9c8ce3afbe5853

[electropop]

1. GOP must be truly desperate to think SF will vote for them.

Great news.

[blondeatlast]

2. "Fiscal responsibility?" She's in the wrong damn party, then. As to the Bay Area RRRs--

good luck. :rofl:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

4. Codespeak for: "I'm rich and don't want to pay taxes"

No amount of pointing out to these people that the GOP is NOT good at balancing budgets or governing will get through to them. They don't care about that. And the "globalization" thing means she wants cheap labor from overseas.

[AndyA]

3. This just doesn't compute.

That's the fallacy of being a Republican.

A committed Republican, she may represent the new face of the GOP—a young, enthusiastic woman of color, a globalist who believes in fiscal responsibility and limited government.

Fiscal responsibility and limited government are NOT attributes of the Republican Party.

Our deficit is higher than it's ever been because of this war based on lies, and our government is bigger than it's ever been.

The woman is an idiot if those are truly her beliefs. Fiscal responsibility/limited government and the GOP do not go hand in hand. And that's a FACT that CANNOT BE DISPUTED.