Chaffee should just cut the BS and do what he really wants to do...join the Democrat party. He's no Conservative and is so far left of Joe Lieberman that Lieberman would need a telescope to see him.
He will join the Donks... but only when it is advantageous to him to do so... If he gets re-elected and the Senate is a 50-50 GOP/Donk split, he will change parties... Or in 2008, if the Donk's take back the White House and the Senate is 51-49 GOP/Donk, he will change parties. He's an opportunist, just like Jim Jeffords... the only reason there is an (R) next to his name right now, is that the R's are the party in power in the Senate.