How Charming: SF Chronicle Commenters Celebrate Death of GOP Taxpayer Advocate

There are times when newspapers should consider closing their comments sections. This is one of them.

A San Jose man attending the California Republican Party convention collapsed while dancing at a late night post-convention party and died.

Shortly after 11:15 p.m. Saturday, Doug McNea, a longtime leader of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association and three-time Republican Assembly candidate, collapsed while dancing at a party thrown by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield at the Sheraton Hotel, across the street from where the convention was held at the Sacramento Convention Center.

As party-goers and soon thereafter rescue workers attended to him on the dance floor, the party was immediately closed. McCarthy, who was there, identified him outside the closed doors of the party and asked the remaining crowd outside to offer their prayers and support. Rescue workers took McNea to a nearby hospital.

California Republican Party spokesman Mark Standriff confirmed that he died overnight.

Cue the sensitive, thoughtful liberals.

Probably not a loss to humanity. Just another opportunist gotten fat from maligning the evil liberals.

How special.

Repub nuclear power consultant? You can't avoid karma. It'll get you one way or another.

So obviously consultants to the nuclear industry should get theirs.

Why didnt he just use his boot straps to restart his heart?

Remember, though, it's Republicans who are mean-spirited.

One reader stays focused on the big prize.

dolfanbob 9:50 AM on March 20, 2011

It should have been Cheney.

That one has 31 "thumbs up" so far.

One can only imagine what comments they actually block there.