Chafee blames loss on Rhode Island's party-ticket ballot

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | November 11, 2006 | Eric Tucker

[fortheDeclaration]

Maybe the voters just didn't like you!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Apparently it's everybody's fault except his own!

[mtairycitizen]

Chafee lost because of a backlash against Republicans, of which you created.


He thought he was immune from that backslash because he was a constant critic of Bush. I love the irony here.

It is the same logic that libs use when they appease terrorists. Libs assume that terrorist only want to kill
conservatives.

[bybybill]

So happy to learn the real reason this back stabbing worthless coward got beat. I thoght it was because he was a lousy Senator. Who knew?

[cripplecreek]

We have party line ballots too but that doesn't cause me to vote straight ticket. I vote taxpayers party on school administration type races.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

I heard this POS on WRKO-Boston yesterday say he was happy the Dems took over Congress.

I guess it's back to shoeing horses for Linc the RINO.

[Kakaze]

Sen. Lincoln Chafee said his knees buckled when he walked into his polling place Tuesday morning and saw that voters were given a prominently displayed option of casting votes along a straight-party line

Let me get this straight; You're a United States Senator running for re-election and you Don't know how the ballot is laid out before hand?

Unbelievable.

[mtairycitizen]

Typical Lib.

When libs lose, they blame everybody else but yourself.

Repubs lose, then try to find out why they lost
and move on.

[raccoonradio]

There are Republicans in Rhode Island?

Patches Kennedy got re-elected, I see.

[politicalwit]

How can an Ass shoe a Horse?

[boomop1]

Cry me a river RINO.

[digger48]

I have wondered about how many actually did vote straight Party. A friend of mine claimed that's what he was going to do, since he supported a Dem for Sheriff and he didn't like Chocola OR Donnely. A very ugly campaign. Move-on sponsored hit job.

He even agreed with me that Pelosi was opposite of everything he believes in.

But I saw where they get their news. The alpabets and a local paper that features only AP articles.

And BTW....the straight party option has always been the first option in every election I've voted in since 1974.

[finnman69]

2 reasons

Lincoln
Chafee

[all the best]

I can never figure out why a man would be attracted to a transvestite. If you want a woman go find a woman and if you want a man go for one of those. Chafee is a political transvestite. All Democrat dressed in Republican clothing. Rhode Island voters finally went for the real thing.

[Bird Jenkins]

Somehow that party ticket didn't keep Republican governor Don Carcieri from geting re-elected.

Time to think up another excuse, big'un.

[IronJack]

Chafee's defeat is living proof that voters did not select liberals, but that conservatives, offered only lukwarm candidates, were prepared to concede seats rather than elect RINOs.

Far from discouraging, this is a hopeful trend. It means that once again, principles are becoming ascendant in the GOP ranks, instead of expediency.

Fair warning, John McCain, Chuck Hagel, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter ...

[ArtyFO]

Maybe they thought you was a Demonrat

[penowa]

The alpabets and a local paper that features only AP articles.

The local PA papers and local TV are much more creative. Between the AP articles, they post their own articles trashing anyone with an (R) after his name beginning BEFORE the voting has begun in the previous election. In case you don't subscribe to their rags or can't read, the local TV news reports on the newspaper articles. It's like an incessant echo chamber and now that they know how to totally corrupt the voting patterns in the PA "T", the previously red part of the state, PA has turned deep blue and will no doubt stay that way.

[got_moab?]

You might be on to something?? Somehow our Conservative Governor was reelected and the Republican mayor of my city, Warwick, was reelected by a 2:1 margin.