Posted on 04/21/2006 12:50:42 PM PDT by neverdem
Sen. Chafee's Wife Tries to Save Re-Election Campaign
by Ivy J. Sellers
Posted Apr 21, 2006
Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee's re-election odds are looking so bleak his wife Stephanie has sent a letter asking friends registered as Democrats to switch their party affiliations to Republican or Independent in order to support him in the Republican primary.
Chafee, who has continually voted with Democrats on key issues, has been the subject of attack from his first days in office as he refuses to support initiatives important to his GOP constituents.
The difference is control of the senate. Little things like tax hikes, cuts in defense, no chance of ANWR drilling, an impeachment of the president, sabotaging the war effort. Otherwise, I could care less about a liberal ass like Chafee.
Dems give us justices like Breyer and Ginsburg. Pubbies give us Roberts and Alito. Dems raise taxes, Pubbies cut them. Pubbies aren't perfect, or great, or ,often, even good; they're just better than the alternative.
They said the same thing about Reagan. He can't win because he's "too conservative." The Rino's always load their gun with that one.
Did you know Reagan carried Massachusetts and New York twice? (Though Rhode Island voted for him just once.)
In California, back in 1992, a Democrat tidal wave swept the state. The only candidate to almost win was Bruce Hershensohn, a genuine conservative who got smeared at the last minute by Boxer and gang and barely lost. In the other senate race, Rino John Seymour, a pseudo Democrat, got beat bad. He stood for nothing.
Conservatives with a temperament and good meassage can win almost anywhere.
Lincoln Chafee hasn't given us anything, except heartburn.
He certainly didn't give us Justice Alito, who was confirmed in spite of that coke-sniffing, single brain-celled, abortion-loving asshat's opposition.
Chafee's ACU ratings are higher than his ADA ratings according to Barones Almanac of american politics 2004. I say stick with him. Any way you look at he is better than a 'rat and that is what you will get with out him.
How so?
See my post #31.
No and yes
Think of it as a teaching aid....even if you are a RINO, act like a Republican some times.
Yep, he's the exception that proves the rule. Even I couldn't vote for him.
Bye Bye RINO. Maybe the door will smack you extra hard on the way out.
Heh, heh.
:-)
Check comment# 31.
That would be good news, indeed, provided the guy running against him is electable in the general election.
Chaffee chafes my butt with almost his every public pronouncement. But he votes "R" in the organization of the Senate, which makes him of some use, minor as it may be.
True, I guess the fact that he publicaly said he wasn't going to vote for the Prez got to me. That was stupid with a capital S and I am convinced the final straw for many on RI.
SO how do you feel about KeaneJR ?
Vote Laffey
I don't know if he can win in the General, but there has to be some discipline. It's evident the GOP won't enforce any, so it's left to the base.
Chafee has NO redeemable qualities.
Dumping Chafee and dumping DeWine would go a long ways toward sending a message to the right people in Congress.
At the ballot box of course, not with an elephant gun.
Agreed do it at the ballot box, not with a piss ant gun.
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