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GOP Establishment Rallying Around RINO Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)
The Boston Globe ^ | December 5, 2005 | Rick Klein

Posted on 12/06/2005 5:19:59 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

But with the Republican Party's hold on the Senate looking tenuous, the party of Wall Street and the religious right is suddenly chummy with its most prominent environmentalist. With a tough race looming, and a solid conservative challenging Chafee in the primary, Republican elites are sending checks to Rhode Island -- to help Chafee.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; actuallyademocrat; chafee; gopprimary; laffey; leftwinggoper; mediafavorite; msmrepublican; rino; rinos
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1 posted on 12/06/2005 5:20:00 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Dan from Michigan; ItsOurTimeNow; mosquitobite; JohnnyZ; ...

Gag alert!


2 posted on 12/06/2005 5:24:52 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Sam Alito Deserves To Be Confirmed)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Why?


3 posted on 12/06/2005 5:26:03 PM PST by golas1964 ("He tasks me... He tasks me, and I shall have him!")
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To: Clintonfatigued
Chafee's conservative challenger. Why are the RINOs so scared about Laffey?
4 posted on 12/06/2005 5:26:05 PM PST by thoughtomator (What'ya mean you formatted the cat!?)
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To: thoughtomator

Partly because they think that Stephen Laffey can't win a statewide election. But I think they're mistaken in this case.


5 posted on 12/06/2005 5:27:48 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Sam Alito Deserves To Be Confirmed)
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To: Clintonfatigued

RINO's are far more tolerable when they're from Liberal states.

RINO's from Conservative states are not acceptable.


6 posted on 12/06/2005 5:28:39 PM PST by Sometimes A River (Your hands and feet are mangoes, but you're gonna be a genius anyway)
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To: Clintonfatigued

If Reagan could win California, anything's possible. All RINOness does is - stupidly and falsely - lend credibility to the Democrat positions they adopt.


7 posted on 12/06/2005 5:30:19 PM PST by thoughtomator (What'ya mean you formatted the cat!?)
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To: Acts 2:38
RINO's are far more tolerable when they're from Liberal states.

Not this one. The NRSC should not waste one dime on that piece of... work.

8 posted on 12/06/2005 5:30:46 PM PST by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Clintonfatigued

This is a state that voted 60% for Kerry.

Take these blue state Republicans as a blessing, they won't be around in 10-20 years.


9 posted on 12/06/2005 5:31:24 PM PST by RWR8189 (George Allen 2008)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Boston Glop gets it wrong -- again.


10 posted on 12/06/2005 5:31:28 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Hey if the liked Specter, you will love me. I'll vote for Frist.

11 posted on 12/06/2005 5:32:32 PM PST by ex-snook ("Come behold the deeds of the Lord, the astounding things he has wrought on earth.")
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To: RWR8189

Let's hope this turd isn't around in 13 months.


12 posted on 12/06/2005 5:33:10 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
I'm sick of Chaffee's crap, and I'm pissed off at the NRSC for helping that RINO. I'm going to donate some $ to Laffey right now at his website!
13 posted on 12/06/2005 5:36:26 PM PST by hispanichoosier
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To: Clintonfatigued

Meanwhile crickets are chirping at Santorum HQ.


14 posted on 12/06/2005 5:37:30 PM PST by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: thoughtomator

Odds are that amongst the team that goes to bail out Chaffee will be Ricky Santorum.

By helping to reelect Chaffee, Santorum negates his 'conservative' vote. Again. When he supported Arlen Specter, he already canceled out his vote.

Because of his efforts to elect any Republican regardless of principle, Ricky's voting record doesn't mean a thing.

Can someone tell me how Santorum can be considered pro life when he helps elect pro abortion senators whose votes negate his own? Anyone? Bueller?


15 posted on 12/06/2005 5:38:57 PM PST by Badray
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To: Clintonfatigued
Partly because they think that Stephen Laffey can't win a statewide election. But I think they're mistaken in this case.

Exactly. Toomey could've taken Hoeffel, but the NRSC, RINOs, and misguided conservatives (e.g. Santorum) kept saying that he couldn't win statewide.
16 posted on 12/06/2005 5:39:09 PM PST by hispanichoosier
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To: nickcarraway
Meanwhile crickets are chirping at Santorum HQ.

Not to worry, Snarlin' Arlen will save the day.

17 posted on 12/06/2005 5:49:11 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Clintonfatigued; Stellar Dendrite; NRA2BFree; Happy2BMe; Spiff; Pelham; Das Outsider; moehoward; ...
But with the Republican Party's hold on the Senate looking tenuous, the party of Wall Street and the religious right is suddenly chummy with its most prominent environmentalist. With a tough race looming, and a solid conservative challenging Chafee in the primary, Republican elites are sending checks to Rhode Island -- to help Chafee.

Here they are on the way to the trough...

And here is their leader...

Now what will these greedy herds do when the Conservatives bail on the "Big Tent/Big Gulp"-ers, and the trough dries up?

18 posted on 12/06/2005 5:49:48 PM PST by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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To: hispanichoosier

Considering Kerry won PA by 145,000 votes it would have been very hard for Toomey to have won. Toomey and Bush would have gotten the same voters.


19 posted on 12/06/2005 5:53:46 PM PST by johnmecainrino
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To: Coop; thoughtomator

I hope we can make the Rino an endangered species.


20 posted on 12/06/2005 5:59:28 PM PST by aligncare (Wasted my time...got my Journalism degree)
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