Laffey did ALL the right things in the debate...he was impressive....I have NO idea why these freepers say he can't win....he CAN win and he WILL win!!
People are following the "If x were the GOP nominee and y were the Dem nominee, whom would you vote for?" polls.
I don't know that I buy those polls right now. Maybe, maybe not.
I am one who violently opposes the "purge RINOs" or the pure ideology nonsense. But Chafee is different.
Here are the numbers: Chafee is a first-term Senator. His lifetime ACU rating has been 37 but this year it's 12.
12.
He's become a gadfly and is getting worse. He's not a "maverick" or "independent". In the Senate, we know there are individuals with strange agendas and we just hope they agree with us most of the time.
But here are the numbers:
2005: Chafee is 12. Here are the Dems that are higher than him: Kohl(13), Feingold(13), Byrd(20), Johnson-SD(13), Dorgan (17), Conrad(20), Clinton(12), Bingaman(13), Nelson-NE(60), Baucus(24), Dayton(16), Stabenow(12), Levin(17), Landrieu(44), Bayh(20), Nelson-FL(20), Salazar(32), Pryor(24), Lincoln(16).
Bottom line, if he were in the Democratic party, he would be one of their more liberal members.
The next lowest Republicans are Snowe(32) and Collins(32). DeWine(56) is next. And at least Snowe and Collins disagree and leave it at that. And I believe it's over principle in their cases. Missing Linc votes with the Dems out of spite or what he believes is political advantage.
There's no contest. Chafee is no RINO. He casts one vote for Republicans (organization), takes his chairmanship and then actively works against Republicans. Moreover, he enjoys it and gets mileage from it. I guess I have one litmus test. If you can't manage to vote for the nominee of your party for president, an incumbent no less, having you in the party is a drain because you're going to hold the party hostage when there's something you want.