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Running Against the Big Shots (GAG!! MULPH!!! AAARRGH! PUKE! Alert!)
Time Gagazine ^
| Aug. 19, 2006
| Joe Klein
Posted on 08/21/2006 7:13:00 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Is there room left in the Senate for a courageous moderate Republican? Not if Steve Laffey, who wants to oust Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island, has anything to say about it
"I just saw you on television," the elderly woman is saying from behind her screen door. "Were they attacking me, or was I talking?" Steve Laffey, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate from Rhode Island, asks. It was an ad, the woman says. About your parents.
Alzheimer's, she says. Laffey's father has Alzheimer's. The ad is about the working-class modesty of the Laffey family. The candidate is going door to door on Lionel Avenue in Coventry, R.I., on a soft summer evening. He is accompanied by a mob that includes his wife and five children, plus assorted childhood friends of his and their children...plus a clutch of campaign workers trailed by a very large recreational vehicle plastered with yellow-and-blue laffey for senate signs.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: chaffee; election2006; electioncongress; klien; laffey; rinohunt
Klien sounds worried. What will the Senate do without courageous moderates like Lincoln Chafee? What a puke-fest. When a beltway, liberal numbfork like Joe Klien gets this exercised, it must mean Laffey has a chance at having the last laugh.
To: .cnI redruM
"Is there room left in the Senate for a courageous moderate Republican?"
Is there room left in the Senate for a courageous moderat Democrat? According to the MSM gushing over Lamont, I would have to guess not!
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posted on
08/21/2006 7:33:40 AM PDT
by
CSM
("The fatter we get as a country the more concerned we get about smoking" - ichabod1)
To: CSM
According to the last Quinnapiac Poll of Connecticut, apparently so.
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posted on
08/21/2006 7:35:05 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The western response should be proportional. That is, kill them before they kill us.)
To: .cnI redruM
Only problem. He is not a "Moderate" he is a Democrat in everything but name. What has he voted with the Republicans on? Amazing that the same people weep giant tears about Liberal Republicans but have NO problem with the Democrats purging Leiberman despite the fact he votes WITH the Democrat leadership 90% of the time. Democrats, the Cult of Hypocrisy
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posted on
08/21/2006 7:37:13 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(History shows us that if you are not willing to fight, you better be prepared to die)
To: MNJohnnie
Chafee is only "Moderate" when compared to Bernie Sanders. He hasn't voted for a Democratic leadership team during the biannual Senate organization vote yet, but that is only a matter of time.
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posted on
08/21/2006 7:41:51 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The western response should be proportional. That is, kill them before they kill us.)
To: .cnI redruM
The Republicans need to be more moderate? I can't think of a pro life Democrat at the national level...
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posted on
08/21/2006 8:19:21 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: Tzimisce
Joe Klein is remarkably smarmy. Thick, gooey sickeningly-sweet smarm that could be termed Smarmalade.
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posted on
08/21/2006 10:22:11 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The western response should be proportional. That is, kill them before they kill us.)
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