[SmithL]

Huh?

[mewzilla]

Consider the source :)

[Semper Paratus]

Losing Chaffee would be addition by subtraction.

[Dog]

ATTENTION RNC LURKERS!!!

This is why I will never give another dime to you.

[ncountylee]

As much as I can't bear Chafee, the seat helps hold the majority and keep committee chairmanships.

[rhombus]

I don't know the data that the GOP is looking at but if this bugs folks they should donate to Laffey.

[Spiff]

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?

Party before principle.

For what does it profit a party to win an election but lose its soul?

[doug from upland]

I loathe the RINOs, but here is the problem. The state is DemocRATic and liberal, insuring that a conservative will not win. We have to face that. We can hope and hope and hope, but it won't happen. Occasionally, he might vote correctly. But the one thing we do need is to remain in the majority. We cannot let the DemocRATS get control of the committe chairmanships again. It is easy to say --- screw the RINO, let the DemocRAT win. But that position is just plain foolish. Politics is the art of the possible.

[sheana]

This is "party over substance". No wonder their approval ratings are so low. I know that I will NEVER again vote for party over substance come what may. I am sick of politics and politicians.

[PzLdr]

If he's their best shot, the GOP should write Rhode Island off, and put their money elsewhere. It's like saying Quisling was the Allies best chance in Norway during WW II.

[NapkinUser]

I'd rather lose the seat with a principled conservative candidate. The only thing Chafee does is give talking points to the liberal media who claim he represents all republicans. Same with McCain.

[boomop1]

GOP is chicken shi*.

[ZULU]

"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.

[Soul Seeker]

Vote Laffey. Donate to him.

[conservativecorner]

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.

[IronJack]

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.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

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

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

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

[conservativecorner]

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!!

[Natural Law]

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.

[Burf]

"The national Republican Party has sort of lost its way," he said.

Kinda sums it up.