Don't Forget: He's Only Trying To Help

"Ask some out-of-towners to walk Market Street from the Ferry Building to City Hall. They'll tell you how beautiful San Francisco is, but it's too bad that the farther they traveled from the waterfront, the grungier, smellier and scarier Ess Eff's Main Street became. The problem? Too many panhandlers and crazy people living on the streets. Half way through the walk, the visitors were hugging their purses and hesitating before looking passers-by in the eye. It's simply not a sunny walking experience when you're trying to dodge people who want to scam you, hit you up for money so they can self-medicate or peddle the kind of sex that you suspect will require penicillin."

-- Debra J. Saunders, on the liberal standards Gavin Newsom, the country's most liberal (and NewAge) mayor, maintains for San Francisco - the most liberal city in America - as he runs for Governor of California, before the rolling eyes of The San Francisco Chronicle.