Posted on 08/30/2006 2:40:47 PM PDT by Spiff
They Shot the Wrong Lincoln
by Ann Coulter
Posted Aug 30, 2006
In addition to supporting Democrat Joe Lieberman over Republican Alan Schlesinger in Connecticut, President Bush is supporting the Democrat over the Republican in Rhode Island, too. In the Republican primary, Bush supports Lincoln Chafee -- who votes with Bush on the important issues less often than Sen. Lieberman does -- over the only actual Republican in the race, Stephen Laffey.
Apart from Bush, the only person who hasn't figured out that Lincoln Chafee is a Democrat is Lincoln Chafee. As the expression goes, if Chafee switched parties, the average IQ on both sides of the aisle would go up.
It's hard to figure why Bush would support a half-wit like Lincoln Chafee. Maybe he believes his own poll numbers and is trying to help the conservatives by endorsing their opponents.
After Chafee's family money got him into Andover and Brown, he made his living shoeing horses for seven years. In fact, I've often wondered if an errant kick to the head by one of his charges would account for Chafee's rudimentary cognitive abilities.
That remains Chafee's only professional accomplishment -- unless you include the "fun zone" for kids on his official Senate Web site. Perhaps we could install a "play zone" like they have at McDonald's in the Senate well to keep Chafee occupied while the real senators go about their business.
When the farrier business proved too taxing for Chafee's intellect, he went into the family business -- politics. His father died in office, and Lincoln was appointed by the governor to serve out the remainder of Pop's term in the U.S. Senate. (I know Rhode Island is small, but couldn't they find someone who reads books right side up to fill the seat?) In terms of qualifications for the job, Chafee makes Michael Brown look like Donald Rumsfeld.
Chafee is everything the Democrats like to claim Republicans are, which we are not and they are: silver-spoon morons who get ahead on the basis of family connections (for example, Ned the Red Lamont in Connecticut).
The only reason Chafee calls himself a Republican is that he believes that everyone above a certain income level is required by law to do so.
He learned this from reading "Doonesbury" and watching "The West Wing" while studiously ignoring blindingly obvious facts like: Sens. Teddy Kennedy (inherited millions), John Kerry (married millions -- twice, lucky guy), Sen. Herbert H. Kohl (inherited millions), John D. Rockefeller (inherited millions), Mark Dayton (inherited millions), Dianne Feinstein (married millions) and aspiring senator Ned the Red (inherited millions). All Democrats.
In addition to the Democratic trait of having absolutely no idea how wealth is generated, Chafee's other Democratic characteristics include:
Cannon's Utah district is one of the most conservative in the country. So you seem to be saying that a lot of conservatives voted for a liberal. That's not true, but that's what you seem to be saying.
Also, the race was not close. Cannon won by ten percentage points.
Tancredo took a huge risk in trying to unseat one of his fellow congressmembers. It blew up in his face.
Let's see here. President Bush supports the incumbent Republican, and Ann Coulter says that the "wrong Lincoln was shot."
Uffda! I think Ann may have finally gone a bit too far.
Pinging to the weekly Ann Coulter!
I can't decide if I prefer the frog pictures or those cute red Xs.
the nrcc's job s to protect incumbents and retain the majorty... graf can't hold that seat. it would be gex williams all over again. huffman can win it which is why they have weighed in on his behalf
"Ann is right about LC being an idiot. His eyes show little spark of intelligence, but a lot of feeling. Hence, he should go over to the Democrat side of the aisle."
"Hate Speech! Hate Speech!"
/liberals/demmies off
Uff da (from a Norwegian):
The only way Ann coud go too far would be to ... (well I do not have to spell out my old age fantasies).
Cannon is no RINO, not with a 98% ACU rating. And, yes it was a risk, as Tancredo lost.
Jacobs self destruction was not a referendum on Tancredo.
Sure it is. He stuck his neck out and got it chopped off. Wanna bet he doesn't try to unseat any other GOP sitting congressmen?
"Taxes, I note, have virtually no bearing on someone who is not currently earning an income but living off incomes earned generations ago by better men than he."
One of AC's best lines this year.Several truths in one short sentence.
Better men than he indeed......
Okay, look, this is not my line, but it is one I agree with. The first conservative I heard use it was Bill Buckley, so the genealogy isn't bad: "Support the most viable rightward candidate." In Rhode Island that almost certainly means support the half-wit, alas, as the lesser evil. (Half-wit, alas, should probably be one word).
Wasn't Thune the one that ran against Tom Daschle and won?
Oh, I wouldn't make an absolute statement such as that. ALWAYS is a long time and there have been many instances of someone like Chaffee being elected over a more, shall we say, less "progressive" democrat. Some democrats, such as Liberman can actually be good for the country in time war for instance over a RINO who dislikes our use of force to settle things. I know for instance that Reagan was a democrat at one time. So I believe that it is not always true that the "R" guarantees a more conservative result or as you say a less liberal one. Not always.
75 posts and only one pic? What's wrong with this thread?
Ann Darlin, If I wasn't so old and decrepid and could go back to the man I was 20 years ago, (before I realised how intellectually ignorant I am, I'd be hitting on you. But correct the heading to "they shot the wrong Lincoln, and the wrong Dean took a Viet Nam Vacation". You'd get miles out of it darlin. Semper Fi, Stumpy.
Man! I just love the way this woman writes!!!!!
You think the President would have learned from supporting Spector over Toomey, then having Spector repeatedly stab him in the back. Chaffee is one senator we can do without. At least Laffey is a candidate you can respect.
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