Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee explores 2010 run for governor [super-RINO gone Democrat]

AP ^ | 2009-04-06

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee created a committee on Monday to explore a run for governor next year as an independent candidate after leaving the Republican Party, his first formal move to enter the race.

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[AuH2ORepublican]

“If ex-Congressman Bob Weygand gets the nomination, he’d be the only pro-life Democrat Governor in the nation.”

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Isn’t WV Gov. Manchin a pro-life Democrat? And so is VA Gov. Tim Kaine, IIRC (perhaps the #1 reason why Obama didn’t pick him as his runningmate)-—of course, he won’t be governor anymore in 2011. And I would have thought that with all those Dem governors in “fly-over states” that at least one of them would be pro-life.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I may have misspoke on that point then. Manchin might be, but I’ve never heard his position. If Tim Kaine is pro-life, that also is news to me. His positions I always read as militantly leftist down the line.

The only thing I came across was this blog entry:
http://rightdemocrat.blogspot.com/2009/04/pro-life-democrat-tim-kaine-stands-by.html

I’ve heard many Dems claim not to be pro-abort, but they won’t support any pro-life legislation.

It was my conclusion Kaine was not picked as a running mate because they didn’t want the VA Governorship falling into GOP hands.

[AuH2ORepublican]

You’re right that Kaine and maybe Manchin talk pro-life but govern pro-abortion. That’s often the case with pro-life Democrats, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that Weygand congressional voting record on abortion was excellent, with only a handful of slip-ups (such as voting in favor of the sham substitute amendment to the Unborn Victims of Violence Act):

http://nchla.org/keyresults.asp?locale=checkstate&state=41&congper=Weygand&zip=&plusfour=&year=1997&year2=2000&issue=&terms=-1&bills=-1&vote=&displaysize=10&displaystarts=1&displaystarth=1&submit=Search+Key+Votes

Weygand’s replacement in the House, Jim Langevin, voted pro-life (with a handful of exceptions) in his first years in Congress, but switched to pro-abortion in the debate over federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research (he is paraplegic, and may have fallen for the lies about how killing babies will help repair spinal cords on adults), and has since become pro-abortion in all his votes:

http://nchla.org/keyresults.asp?locale=checkstate&state=41&congper=Langevin&zip=&plusfour=&year=2001&year2=2009&issue=&terms=-1&bills=-1&vote=&displaysize=10&displaystarts=1&displaystarth=1&submit=Search+Key+Votes

[fieldmarshaldj]

That’s a shame about Langevin. I didn’t know he flipped to pro-abort. You’d think he’d have some sensitivity about the helpless.

[Impy]

Kaine is John Kerry style “pro-lifer”.

Manchin may actually be pro-life, I don’t know.

So the RI State Treasurer is to the right of Lincy? Lol.

Was Bruce Morrsion to the right of Lowell Weicker?

[fieldmarshaldj]

In Weicker’s last year in the Senate (1988), he scored a 4 (!) He was to the left of Chris Dodd who scored an 8. Bruce Morrison had a 9 in his last year (1990) in the House before he and fellow Congressman John Rowland ran against Wackjob for Governor.