If you can believe it, the SF Bay used to be a heavily Republican bastion, but we gradually lost it over time (Pelosi’s seat in 1948, the then-other SF seat in the early ‘70s, the Oakland/Berkeley seat in 1958 and the erosion spread outwards to the rest of the Bay and San Jose, too). The Pelosi district is one of the single most radical in the nation, and also has the least number of families with children (you can almost always determine what district will elect of a certain party based on that alone — the more 2-parent families with children, the more likely they’ll send a GOP member).
I’ll actually make the argument that a Sheehan candidacy will be bad for Conservatives and the GOP, want to know why ? Because Sheehan running will make Pelosi look like a moderate, and if I didn’t know better, Sheehan (being the whore that she is) is being paid off to do this little dog and pony show for that express purpose. Make Pelosi and the party look moderate and sensible against a well-known unpopular pathetic cretin, and it will benefit them at the ballot box (we need Pelosi to look like the moonbat, not Sheehan). Pelosi gets over 80% of the vote, the Republican 10% and a Green Stalinist gets the other 10%. She could afford to bleed off 35% of the vote, and she’d still win. When she retires, the big question will be whether a Dem wins the seat, or a Green does. A Green nearly won the Mayor’s office against the current incumbent last time.