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GOP Likes Chafee As Best Chance in R.I.
AP ^ | 11/15/5 | M.L. JOHNSON

Posted on 11/15/2005 10:31:01 AM PST by SmithL

Warwick, R.I. -- Liberal Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee refused to support President Bush in the last election, opposed the GOP tax cuts and was the only Republican to vote against the use of military force in Iraq, a war he has likened to Vietnam.

So why, a year before the election, is the GOP embracing Chafee and spending close to $200,000 on television ads aimed at undercutting his conservative rival in the Republican primary, Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey?

Like him or not, Republicans consider Chafee their best chance to win in heavily Democratic Rhode Island.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 2006; barf; bigtent; chafee; cranston; deanishappy; gopmodsquad; laffey; mayor; nrsc; rhody; rino; rinos; smallstatesmallmind
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To: NapkinUser

Agree, let a few Senate RINOs sink under the sea would go a long way in enforcing party discipline. The only help the RNC should give Chafee is a poster with his face on top of a bulls eye target.


21 posted on 11/15/2005 10:49:08 AM PST by RicocheT
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To: G.Mason

Well I don't live in Rhode Island but I know what the GOP is up against there. Too often I read how we shouldn't coddle RINOs and it's better to lose and send a message than to win with a RINO. I still think maintaining committee chairs is more important but I've been savagely attacked for that. It will be interesting to see what happens here.


22 posted on 11/15/2005 10:50:00 AM PST by rhombus
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To: SmithL

"So why, a year before the election, is the GOP embracing Chafee and spending close to $200,000 on television ads aimed at undercutting his conservative rival in the Republican primary, Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey?"

Typical of northeastern states. The RINOs control the Republican Party in those states and try to run candidates who are really Democrat Light.

A lot of these Republican RINOs come from well-heeled old money and their focus is mainly on protecting their own finances and blocking excessive taxes which might impact their investments and savings. To do so, they are willing to compromise on anything and everything else. In a sense they are worse than Democrats - at least most Dems really believe their liberal blather. These people don't believe Republican Political philosophy.

It means little in the long run to Repubs nationally if Chaffee is defeated, or Tom Kean Jr. fails in an attempt to get elected to the U.S. Senate.

They would probably vote with the Dems anyway.


23 posted on 11/15/2005 10:50:10 AM PST by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: drc43
"Is it worth turning the Senate back to the Dems to get rid of Chaffee and those like him?"


Is it okay for your wife only cheat on Wednesdays and Fridays?

After all she cooks and washes your clothes.



24 posted on 11/15/2005 10:50:30 AM PST by G.Mason (The barbarians are at the gate ... the Democrats and RINO's stand ready to open it for them)
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To: rhombus
Nor do I. I escaped from N.J. though, and know the rats quite well.

BTW ... see my #24. ;)



25 posted on 11/15/2005 10:52:59 AM PST by G.Mason (The barbarians are at the gate ... the Democrats and RINO's stand ready to open it for them)
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To: SmithL

Vote Laffey. Donate to him.


26 posted on 11/15/2005 10:53:44 AM PST by Soul Seeker (Mr. President: It is now time to turn over the money changers' tables.)
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To: AmishDude

You got that right....as loyal as the bunch in the Senate.


27 posted on 11/15/2005 10:53:55 AM PST by Dog
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To: SmithL
This is why we get nothing done in the Senate. The establishment backs RINO's like this one or SPECTRE or insert any of the other jackasses we have in there. No more money from me gang. My donations will all go to Club For Growth who support true conservatives.
28 posted on 11/15/2005 10:54:17 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: Dog
"This is why I will never give another dime to you."

If the GOP has $200K to spend for a liberal against a consertive, they certainly don't our money. As if I needed another reason.

29 posted on 11/15/2005 10:55:25 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: plain talk
Until R.I. and much of the N.E. decides it wants real conservatives you will have RINOs. That's life.

That's life? I don't subscribe to manufactured political "realities". If too many people did a couple of decades ago, we would have never had Ronald Reagan as President.

30 posted on 11/15/2005 10:55:29 AM PST by Spiff ("They start yelling, 'Murderer!' 'Traitor!' They call me by name." - Gael Murphy, Code Pink leader)
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To: G.Mason
BTW ... see my #24. ;)

I saw that. Funny, but I take it you are saying it's best to lose on principle... you must respect the Greenies and Nadarites, eh?

31 posted on 11/15/2005 10:55:33 AM PST by rhombus
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To: drc43; aShepard; BREWS-AND-BLUES; BRYAN-USMC; chemist; Franklin Raff; got_moab?; heylady; ...

RI Ping!

>>Is it worth turning the Senate back to the Dems to get rid of Chaffee and those like him?<<

Yes, it is. The Republicans in the Senate acted like conservatives when they were the minority. Once they got the majority, they let the dems walk all over them and refused to fight back.

They were stronger when they were the minority. Give me utter gridlock over this spendthrift nonsensery any day of the week.

Many of us fought very hard and donated a lot to help the GOP gain the majority in the last few elections; and what has it gotten us? More spending, open borders, bigger government, and more welfare. No thank you.

Chaffee needs to go. I support Longshot Laffey 100%. It's the principle of it.

Chafee stood shoulder to shoulder with Brown University anti-war protestors. He is pro-choice. He supports sodomite marriage. He voted against GWB. He is no conservative, and for the RNC to reward him for his treasonous behavior is a slap in the face to every conservative.


32 posted on 11/15/2005 10:57:14 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow (Aslan is on the move...)
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To: SmithL

Time to give up that seat, GOP. Better a Democrat have it than a Democrat masquerading as a Republican. As this quisling Senate has demonstrated, ideological superiority means something; numerical majority doesn't.


33 posted on 11/15/2005 10:57:46 AM PST by IronJack
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To: SmithL

Why not run Patches Kennedy?
He's a sure win too, and would vote exactly the same as Lincoln the Commie chafee, the Chump.


34 posted on 11/15/2005 10:57:59 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (Welcome to the Socialist Community of North America.)
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To: SmithL

Why not run Patches Kennedy?
He's a sure win too, and would vote exactly the same as Lincoln the Commie Chafee, the Chump.


35 posted on 11/15/2005 10:58:06 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (Welcome to the Socialist Community of North America.)
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To: Jaxter
Sigh. That should read "don't need our money".
36 posted on 11/15/2005 10:58:18 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: SmithL
The Republicans are as bad as the demoncrats. Win at any cost to perpetuate a lie. He's no more a Republican than Howard Dean, yet we are spending $200,000.00 on this chicken shit of a senator so that someone who's a conservative doesn't have a fighting chance in the Primary. Same thing happened with Toomey and SPECTRE. I'm done with these fools until someone with half a frigging brain gets a clue. UNBELIEVABLE!!
37 posted on 11/15/2005 10:59:27 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: SmithL
This is a case of GOP employing the "Party Uber Alles" lack of principles that that makes them no different than the Dems. Regan said "I didn't leave the democrat party, it left me". The Republican Party's selling their collective soul in exchange for liberal votes will drive me away too.
38 posted on 11/15/2005 11:02:19 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: Spiff

Yep, that's life for most of us that know what's going on. But since you are so politically astute why don't you go over to Rhode Island, recruit a good conservative candidate and convince the voters there to vote for real conservatives? Let us know how you do.


39 posted on 11/15/2005 11:03:30 AM PST by plain talk
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To: ncountylee
"As much as I can't bear Chafee, the seat helps hold the majority and keep committee chairmanships."

Then we put in Committee chairmen that are RINOs like Chafee or Spector.

It does us not good to have the chairmanships when the senate is full of RINOS.

We need to have these idiots lose their offices so some of their fellow senators start voting like conservatives out of fear that their constituents aren't going to keep voting them back in for lack of a better choice.
40 posted on 11/15/2005 11:04:36 AM PST by untrained skeptic
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