Conservative group sets sights on Chafee - Club for Growth

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/11/06 | M. L. Johnson - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., right, and challenger Stephen Laffey, mayor of Cranston, R.I., pause Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006, in Providence, R.I., during the second of two breaks in their first of four hourlong Republican primary debates before the Sept. 12 election. They are running neck-and-neck in one of the most closely watched races this election season. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

[ConservativeDude]

I refer to the Club for Growth as the enemy within"

That's funny. I refer to the Club for Growth as the Real Republican Party.

[peyton randolph]

"I refer to the Club for Growth as the enemy within," said Rep. Sherwood Boehlert

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Pillow-biter RINOs like Sherwood are the real enemy within.

 

[kesg]

Why are they acting like the Moveon.org moonbats? They should be going primarily after Rats.

[I still care]

I'm with you. I'm all for conservative candidates, but it seems to me money is better spent getting conservative republicans into Democratic seats, rather than destroying more liberal republicans already in the congress.

[NormsRevenge]

This is a primary that is upcoming and Lincoln is as ratlike a critter as you will find with an R by his name in the party today.

[msnimje]

Cafee is such a POS.

[SmoothTalker]

I question the wisdom of that. We won't get a real conservative into office from Rhode Island any team soon. We'd guarantee the spot would go Dem. Probably to someone more liberal than Chafee. In the end a liberal maverick republican at least caucus' with the right party. We don't want to end up in a situation where we lose the Senate by one seat and shooting ourself in the foot in R.I. is to blame.

[kesg]

Not that I am a Lincoln Chafee fan (to put it extremely mildly). But yeah. First, let's get the worst of the worst on the other side of the aisle. There is only so much time, money, and other resources to go around.

[kesg]

I hear you. And if I could single out any one person with an R by his name, it's him. But if nothing else, he's better than a Rat because he votes for Republicans when it comes to organizing the Senate. So, let's deal with the actual Rats first. Let's don't act like moonbats. That's all I'm really saying here.

[NormsRevenge]

Who's acting like a moonbat,, CFG?

I vehemently disagree. Chafee has been a solid supporters of most if not all dem efforts the last couple years, you want to keep that on the "team"?

[KarlInOhio]

But if nothing else, he's better than a Rat because he votes for Republicans when it comes to organizing the Senate.

Maybe if it is 52-48. I wouldn't count on his vote if it was 51-49 or 50-50.

[NormsRevenge]

Need I remind you we had a clear GOP majority in the Senate yet somehow that didn't matter much either..

[Vigilanteman]

Chaffee has a lifetime rating of 37%!

Yeah, that's better than any RI Dem will ever do, but it isn't worth spending Republican dollars to support him.

[hinckley buzzard]

Like his father, the younger Chafee is a fiscal conservative and environmentalist.

This is a lie. Chafee is about as much a "fiscal conservative" as Upchuck Schumer. If he really was a "fiscal conservative" the CFG wouldn't be opposing him. AP is really getting sloppy with its lies.

[Rocketman]

Agreed I remember on FR some years ago when the republicans lost big Bill Clinton was elected Gingrich stepped down and later Trent Lott stepped down -- there was a lot of discussion in those days in FR or rtragetting and removing one by one these Rino's.

I was fairly unhappy when bush interfered with the ousting of -- (I just can't think of his name the head of the judicary committee from PA) and unhappy when bush supported chaffey

Anyway These turncoats that vote with the democrats at every turn of the Road need to be replaced with people in sync with the values of their party and their supporters. Instead of trying to get good press coverage by the localliberalrags and networks.

[NormsRevenge]

Republican Main Street Partnership
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=Republican%20Main%20Street%20Partnership%20
Congressional Members
109th Congress

Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island
Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota
Sen. Susan Collins, Maine
Sen. Johnny Isakson, Georgia
Sen. John McCain, Arizona
Sen. Gordon Smith, Oregon
Sen. Olympia Snowe, Maine
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania

[BW2221]

If the Club for Growth, Right to Life and other conservatives groups work together, don't be surprised if there's a major roadblock in the way of Rudy's coronation.

[NormsRevenge]

because of all the fractionalism that is going on in the GOP, I expect that and more as we get closer to '08.

There are a few in the GOP that are deserving but won't get the time of day because they have not been "team" players.

Sad to say but when you look at what has become of the political process today, there is no way to predict what will happen in '08.

I am optimisic a majority of folks will make the right decision, but I am not overly so.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Yes he's a rat and our time, money, and resources can be better spent elsewhere. I will help Tom Kean get elected ONCE and then wait for the pokes-in-the-eye thank yous. I can accept this type of behavior from the 2 ding-dings in Maine. It comes with the liberal territory. However, it has to be MEASURED-meaning he/she better come ome when we need them. Just think what Chaffee will be like if the senate is split 50-50. He will be RUNNING the senate until he decides to pull a Jeffords. Stab him in the FRONT.