[untrained skeptic]

"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.

[Dansong]

Here's the deal from a local perspective: Laffey seemed promising, but in a shock to all conservatives, he actually came out left of center; saying in his first ads that he would shut down "big oil" in Washington and fight "the special interests" - right out of the Hilary handbook! He also is very soft on immigration - even adopting a sister city in central America as Mayor of Cranston.

Meanwhile, Chaffee is more savy. He brings tons of Federal money to the city's and towns and attends every groundbreaking in sight. He's modest and predictable. Laffey will never out-liberal him and without a true conservative message, Laffey's toast