Posted on 01/05/2020 10:48:21 PM PST by tcrlaf
Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee has filed to run for President as a libertarian in what appears to be a new long-shot White House bid following his failed campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
Chafee filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday to form the Lincoln Chafee for President campaign committee based in Wyoming. A website linked to Chafee's FEC filing states "Lincoln Leads with TRUTH" along with the phrase "Thirty Years, Zero Scandals." Chafee has spent most of his life as a Republican. He was nominated to his late father's Senate seat in 1999 and then was elected as a Republican in 2000. He served only one term, losing to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in 2006, but then successfully ran for governor of Rhode Island as an independent. His 2016 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, however, was marked by anemic poll and fundraising numbers.
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I wish Don Carcieri had run. Best Governor the state has had since the Communist Demonrat Revolution of Ted Green’s in the 1930s.
It wasn’t too long ago that sex with farm animals was legal in the state of Washington. For some reason it never came up under animal abuse.
Now it is. Some guy had sex with a horse at a farm/brothel where the owner hired out his animals. The guy died. (More clearly, the horse had sex with the guy “Wrecked him? No - killed him!”)
IIRC, Catherine the Great died when the ropes broke and the horse fell on top of her. (At least according to my 12th grade history teacher!).
This guy died from internal bleeding. His “friends” drove him to the hospital and dumped him off at the curb, but it was too late.
There must be a financial angle looser like Chafee play when they run for an office where they have a less than zero chance of winning. No one would;d donate to their campaign with a thought they actually have even a remote chance of winning. Is this simply a way to launder money?
The never-Trumpers scrape another long-dead fish from the bottom of the barrel.
Good luck with that, kids.
“When he ran as a Republican, he swore up and down he was “Mr. Moderate” and the mean, nasty, EXTREMIST right-wingers just couldn’t tolerate sensible CENTRIST views like his own.”
I make a habit of BLASTING people here who keep saying that there’s no difference between the Democrat and Republican parties, and I do that based on one thing - the confirmation of judges, which the differences are night and day. Sure, we lose a RINO once in while, but even RINOs vote STRONGLY for Trump’s judges (on the order of 98%), and that includes Trump’s pro-life judges - and no Democrat comes close, NOT A SINGLE ONE. (hopefully you people understand this, given Trump’s record with judges)
Having said the above, Lincoln Chaffee is the son of the late John Chaffee, a RINO of 25 or so years ago, who also had a mostly pro-Reagan voting record, but also did his share of being a jerk. I’d say John Chaffee voting record was similar to Lisa Murkowski’s record.
But then John goes bye-bye and is replaced by his son Lincoln. The guy was PATHETIC as a Republican and spent most of his time in the Senate trying to undercut President Bush (Jr.)...this is a TRUE RINO, far worse than Murkowski, Collins, or Romney, and if he were still in the Senate, I would have no problem with people saying he was no different than a Democrat - since he wasn’t, and at the time there were 1 or 2 Democrats with more conservative voting records than Lincoln Chaffee.
...anyway, as for today, the difference in the voting records of the most liberal Republican, Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and the most conservative Democrat, Joe Manchin, is HUGE, as Manchin continues to support Shuemer on judges (which means voting NO on the contested judgeships), and Murkowski still supports Trump on most of the contested judges (Kavenaugh being an exception due to tribalism, and probably a few lower court ones).
So today, I will continue to note that there is a HUGE DIFFERENCE between the parties and for people who may think about splitting tickets in November, you might as well stay home, since you’re canceling out your own votes...and yes, that applies to voters in Virginia too, the ones now losing their guns (or living with the possibility of a felony charge over their heads) because they figured there was no difference between the parties.
forgot about this dude.
He’s kind of like a mild case of herpes. You forget about it and then it pops up for a short period before going dormant for another couple years.
Shouldn’t you be FOR SMALL GOVERNMENT to be libertarian?? Another reason Libertarians are kooks!!
The cynic in me, suggests his Sore-Ass bribe money has run out, so he's doing this to raise money: IIRC any fundraising money for a campaign, which isn't spent, then belongs to the candidate.
Tinfoil hat *off*.
Lincoln has spent his entire life trying unsuccessfully to measure up to his father. He should have had the sense 40 years ago to go carve out his own career in some field where he might have done useful work. He would probably have made a fine high school teacher. But he chose to spend his life chasing his dad's shadow, and deep down inside knowing that he's failed.
This is the man and the moment we’ve all been waiting for.
He would actually skim off a few Democrats who will be embarrassed to vote rat this time so this is a good thing.
And yet another”Quack” joins the parade of Loons.
Of course there’s no way that he’s motivated by the prospect of taking votes away from the President.
Yes, poor Rhode Island: never able to pick a winner!
He is a moron. I lived in RI and met him several times
The good news is he is a Liberal vote siphon in the General election and every little bit helps.
Weldon $hithouse...ROTFL!
He could be like Jeb! and just hold events in buildings where people wait on buses to make it appear that he has at least 4 people who care what he has to say.
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