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No. What's defeatist is surrendering our seats in the senate in the name of ideological purity. There are many regions of this country where a principled conservative does not have a chance in hell of being elected to office. In those situations you have to support the best candidate that can get elected.

I'm no fan of Lincoln Chafee, but he's 1000% better than Charles Schumer, Ted Kennedy or Robert Byrd, which is exactly the kind of politician that will likely replace him. If you want to get rid of RINO's, you should go after John McCain or others of his ilk that come from red states.

I'm no fan of Lincoln Chafee, but he's 1000% better than Charles Schumer, Ted Kennedy or Robert Byrd, which is exactly the kind of politician that will likely replace him.

That's the problem. He's not. If the best we can do from Rhode Island is Chafee, it's better to just cede the seat, and go harder after a Red State Democrat Senator.

"No. What's defeatist is surrendering our seats in the senate in the name of ideological purity."

That would be true if the said individuals were only voting, say, 95% Republican/Conservative, and targeting them because they weren't 100% (and what precisely is 100% Conservative is a bone of contention, anyhow). But the person in question is Lincoln Chafee, and he can't even qualify himself as a "moderate" (his positions, in fact, have put him to the left of some of his Democrat colleagues in the same state, and that is simply unacceptable).

"There are many regions of this country where a principled conservative does not have a chance in hell of being elected to office. In those situations you have to support the best candidate that can get elected."

Well, a "principled" Conservative managed to get elected to the Governorship of Rhode Island, so the theory that it's out of the question that a Don Carcieri can get elected is untrue. I maintain that Chafee is NOT the best we can do in Rhode Island. A Republican can only be so far to the left that eventually they start to become an opponent of the party's goals and interests. It is not in our interest to keep the Chafees in the party when we could swap them out for Democrats who are much more far to the right who are interested in promoting and voting for a Conservative agenda.

"I'm no fan of Lincoln Chafee, but he's 1000% better than Charles Schumer, Ted Kennedy or Robert Byrd, which is exactly the kind of politician that will likely replace him."

But then again, with hard work and no party establishment-style kneecapping, we could get a Steve Laffey to succeed Chafee. I'll remind you that even "Sheets" Byrd voted FOR Judge Priscilla Owen this week... not even Chafee had the common decency to do so, voting with the radical far left of the Democrat party.

"If you want to get rid of RINO's, you should go after John McCain or others of his ilk that come from red states."

True, and he should've been dispatched a long time ago (media whores like him get to stay while distinguished heroes like Admiral Jeremiah Denton go down after a single term), though if you get rid of McCain's RINO flunkies and footsoldiers, he'll soon find himself rightfully politically impotent. We have 7 traitors, and we're going to make sure they get their rewards coming.