I’ve DEFENDED a number of RINOs on this site - people like Kay and the Maine twins.
But Chaffee was in a class by himself. He was HORRENDOUS as a Republican, at best he would have fit as a mainstream Democrat politically...not even a conservative Democrat.
So what did the Republican ESTABLISHMENT do when he was up for re-election in 2006? They dumped MILLIONS into his campaign and even President Bush campaigned for him. And even that couldn’t save him - he never had a chance.
...this is where REPUBLICAN MONEY was spent. There were OTHER REPUBLICANS in close races that could have used some help, and most of them had a history of voting Republican, at least once in a while.
So go ahead Chafee - give them hell!
MOAR CLOWN CAR!
The gopE have a problem now...chaffey is one of them but what if jeb bush declares...oh the dilemma!
He’s just in it for the buffet. /Shanklin
When he was officially a Republican (not so very long ago), the term, "RINO" (or "Republocrat," to use the older term) really seemed too nice to describe him accurately...
“If you show a lack of judgment, lack of doing homework then, what can we expect in the future?”
Exactly.
Switched from the republican party to the ddemocratic party, have we?
I’ wondering if he is being sent out there by the party to provide Hillary with token competition so they can say “See? It wasn’t a coronation....Hillary had to fight for the nomination.”
Who let this wacko out of his padded cell? He’s a legend in his own mind, just like in “Me, Myself and Irene”.
John Chafee never ran for President but was Nixon’s navy secretary, I believe it was, then went to the Senate. Has RI ever elected anyone good? Nelson Rockefeller’s grandfather, Nelson Aldrich, was one of their senators too.
Step right up, folks! Right here...