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Chafee votes for Bush's father
The Providence Journal Bulletin ^ | November 3, 2004 | Tracy Breton

Posted on 11/03/2004 6:47:46 AM PST by TaxachusettsMan

The Republican senator says he could not vote for President Bush because he disagrees with him on several issues.

Sen. Lincoln Chafee made good on his pledge yesterday: As a form of "symbolic protest," he cast a write-in ballot for former President George H.W. Bush instead of voting for his son, President George W. Bush. He also did not rule out the prospect of changing parties if the incumbent president is reelected.

(Excerpt) Read more at projo.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: chafee; rinos
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Good freaking riddance!

Isn't it about time this Pampered Pansy got himself one of the War Hero's pink ties and just signed up as a Heinz-Ketchup staffer?

1 posted on 11/03/2004 6:47:46 AM PST by TaxachusettsMan
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To: TaxachusettsMan

If he changed parties, would anyone notice?


2 posted on 11/03/2004 6:48:56 AM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: TaxachusettsMan

He's not going anywhere unless he can pull a Jeffords.


3 posted on 11/03/2004 6:49:13 AM PST by ECM
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To: TaxachusettsMan

Your prototype RINO. Lincoln my boy, GET THE HELL OUT OF THE GOP AND CROSS OVER WHERE YOU BELONG. Jerk.


4 posted on 11/03/2004 6:49:35 AM PST by Daner313 (Bush has crushed Monsieur Kerry!! OUI! OUI!)
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To: ECM
He's not going anywhere unless he can pull a Jeffords.

He'd switch parties if Barney Frank would date him.

5 posted on 11/03/2004 6:50:20 AM PST by peyton randolph (Time for Bush to pack the U.S. Supremes)
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To: TaxachusettsMan

Before you all crap all over him, consider that his state just voted 60% to 40% for Kerry. Being a Bushbot is a sure path to defeat.

No Republican other than a RINO is viable in that state.


6 posted on 11/03/2004 6:50:58 AM PST by ambrose
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To: TaxachusettsMan

If he's going to jump ship, I'm going to demand (even though it won't do any good) that the idiot pay back the money he "stole" from the RNC and the Republican Senate re-election campaigns. And then it's GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!!


7 posted on 11/03/2004 6:51:18 AM PST by no more apples (God Bless our troops)
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What an idiot. He considers an election in which he cast one vote (and a dopey one at that) to be a mandate to switch parties. Bush won, but if Kerry won Chafee would have statyed a republican? The logic of this is .....?


8 posted on 11/03/2004 6:51:19 AM PST by Williams
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To: ambrose

So you think his infantile actions in a democrat controlled state helps the GOP?


9 posted on 11/03/2004 6:52:48 AM PST by linn37 (Have you hugged your Phlebotomist today?)
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To: TaxachusettsMan

Good riddance, punk!


10 posted on 11/03/2004 6:52:50 AM PST by The G Man (Are Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein better off now then they were 4 years ago?)
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To: Williams

"The logic of this is .....?"

Temper tantrum.


11 posted on 11/03/2004 6:53:26 AM PST by Salamander (Pirates of the Appalachians)
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Brilliant politician. His point of power lies in the fact that he is part of the majority. His greatest power was that his vote was critical. With 54-55 senators, he's just not as important as he once was.

Guess he wants to switch so the minority Democrats can give him a really good committee assignments.

12 posted on 11/03/2004 6:54:56 AM PST by MHT
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To: TaxachusettsMan

Don't let the door hit him in the a$$!


13 posted on 11/03/2004 6:56:16 AM PST by conservativecorner
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Go away Chafee. We don't need or want you and it will make the vote counting easier to know who are real friends are.

btw, check out the "values thing" of this election, you obviously don't get it.

14 posted on 11/03/2004 6:57:24 AM PST by WoodstockCat (DNC and John Kerry: Forgers R' Us)
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Isn't it about time this Pampered Pansy got himself one of the War Hero's pink ties and just signed up as a Heinz-Ketchup staffer?

Do you mean a "Heinz-Ketchup stuffer"?

15 posted on 11/03/2004 6:58:13 AM PST by Former Dodger ((Go W GO! Finish off the US Rats, then the Muslim ones!))
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To: TaxachusettsMan

Let him go. Let New England companies and all tourism suffer from all of us. Kerry and his clowns really dissed us Americans and our values. As a former New Englander who left over 40 years ago, I said good riddence to them long ago. I spent many years in the military in the south and truly love people there and their values. We must not give up the effort. I'd be in favor of all of us pooling together and help out and give special assistance to the GOP and volunteers in key states to insure we all stay united, time and time again.


16 posted on 11/03/2004 6:59:03 AM PST by ONETWOONE (onetwoone)
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How very Democratish of him. Symbolism over substance.


17 posted on 11/03/2004 7:00:02 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: TaxachusettsMan

I wish this pos would just get it over with.


18 posted on 11/03/2004 7:00:44 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: MHT

As Robbie Burns would say of Chafee and like-minded New Englanders:

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie....


19 posted on 11/03/2004 7:00:58 AM PST by gaspar
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To: TaxachusettsMan; fieldmarshaldj

"[Chafee] also did not rule out the prospect of changing parties if the incumbent president is reelected."



The idiot said this right before the GOP picked up 4 net seats to go up to 55 Senators! I hope he does switch and become Hillary's bitch in the minority delegation. We can't count on his vote anyhow, and it would allow a Republican to run against him in the general election in 2006. Maybe former Governor Almond or former Congressman Machtley; Governor Carcieri, who is a pro-life conservative, needs to run for reelection.


20 posted on 11/03/2004 7:06:14 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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