Well, not only in Blue states, but in hard-core Blue Nation pockets like San Francisco, the best-known parts of Marin County, across in Berkeley and in Oakland, or to the south in places like Santa Monica or Hollywood,
that Medal of Honor would be a liability, too.

(I grew up in the Bay Area and have lived in the Southland as well, and know the state well.)

This is an attempt to say that Republicans can compete anywhere without sacrificing core conservative positions (i.e., without being a dreaded RINO). It's absurd.

We like public transportation and free health clinics and lots of safe sex and gay youth outreach and biodeisel and volunteering and poetry slams and drag shows and feminist porn and universal healthcare. We are willing to be taxed to keep the things we like up and running. We don't like ab-only sex ed or saggy-pants bans or guns or corporate welfare or McDonalds or buildings made from unrecyclable materials or agribusiness or God as taught in your basic evanelical church. What would a Republican do here?

The comments on that thread are interesting, pointing to a real life San Fran Republican and the comment “However, this article does illustrate well the big problem with today's GOP. What makes Mr. Wong (sigh) so appealing to Republicans? He's resentful. That's it! That's the whole appeal.” People are also giving the author a hard time for the whole Wong thing.

But they have a good point, the Republicans that are doing well in major cities and amongst minorities are those that have an optimistic vision and actively are involved in community projects instead of just griping about the government.

The alternative universe where things like gay marraige are all about 'political correctness'. I honestly think it never occurs to some conservatives that legal gay marraige effects the ability of gay families to take care of each other. It is abstract politics or theology to them, not bread and butter.