Bob Filner for Mayor!

So the Political Establishment was rocked this week by Bob Filner filing his intent to run and opening a political account to run for San Diego Mayor. Immediately, the local Republicans began attacking Bob and the Chair of the Republican Party Tony (Strider) Kovaric made it his personal mission to defeat Bob for mayor. Which leads me to believe that they are so scared of Bob and he has a serious shot to win. I mean after all San Diego is a Military City and Bob was the Chair of the Veterans Affairs Subcommittee and was critical in getting a new Veterans Facility in Chula Vista and has done a lot for Gulf War Vets of the first Gulf War and gotten recognition of Filipinos who fought for the United States in World War II. That and the fact that he's never lost an election and has no ties to the mismanagement of the City for the last 20 years makes him almost an outsider yet his experience as a City Council member also makes him somewhat familiar with City Government. The other thing is that the Republicans are divided this go around as Carl DeMaio, the Tea Party candidate. Bonnie Dumanis, the Establishment candidate and Nathan Fletcher, the other Establishment candidate. Niether of them can rebuild the coalition that elected Jerry Sanders and with the demographics of the City leaning towards Democrats perhaps in 2013 we will be talking about Mayor Filner.