Posted on 09/16/2007 10:21:47 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Chafee no longer a Republican
Former Repubican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who lost his seat in last year’s Democratic congressional wave, announced that he has left the Republican Party, according to the Providence Journal.
“It’s not my party any more,” he said.
In his seven-year tenure in the Senate, Chafee frequently split from his party on key legislation. He opposed the war in Iraq, voted with Democrats on estate tax and HMO regulation legislation and refused to support the confirmation of U.N. Ambassador John Bolton.
In the past, Chafee had insisted that he would remain in the Republican Party. But he did not endorse President Bush for re-election in 2004, and faced a fierce primary challenge from his right in last year’s Senate race.
Chafee and his father, former Sen. John Chafee, held Rhode Island’s Senate seat in Republican hands for 30 years. National Republicans poured money into the state last year to aid Chafee’s re-election, but he lost to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).
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He’s going to be missed....about as much as a case of the crabs!!!
I saw this guy on C-SPAN a few years ago, ponificating about something, and my God, the guy was a rambling nitwit! How he ever got elected is beyond me as he came off absolutely witless and you’d think that even the voters would have seen it. The Democratic challenger must have been a weak one. Then again, they might as well have had their own in their for all the good he was.
Its about time you left Moron!Great news!
don’t let the screen door hit you on your way out Linc
Yep and when they also supported spector on PA that ended my money to the GOP too. Look at the returns they’ve gotten on throwing good money after bad.
Chafee no longer a Republican....
was he ever a republican?????
Don’t let the door hit you where the Lord split you.
Oh, please, please come back, Mr. Chafee, sir. We’ll be glad to change the entire party platform, just to satisfy you. And we’ll be happy to toss millions of Christian voters overboard, just to make you feel more at home. And we’ll readily change our foreign policy. I’m so very sorry that our serious efforts to stop international terrorism and to protect Israel have offended you. Just go to Newport and take a poll of the rich yacht & limousine crowd there, report back to us on what they want, and we’ll obey without question.
Anything...ANYTHING...to keep an asset such as you in the party, Mr. Chafee, sir.
Wow! This is almost like not losing an arm or a leg or something.
It’s kind of scary to think he is so delusional he ever thought he was a Republican.
Translation:
“I’m not going to wait around to see if I can hold the party hostage on a 50-50 split, and I’ve already squeezed all the money I plan to out of the RNC to get re-elected.”
CHAFEE HAS A WIDE STANCE!
Is he now a member of the Communist Party??? Good ridance to the mutt who ends up on the junk heap of political has-bins.
““It’s not my party any more,” he said.”
It was never your party. You used us like a whore, and the RINOs in the Senate GOP were happy to spread their legs for you. I said to you “good riddance”, as I would to any place that rids itself of prostitutes. The result is less disease and a cleaner place.
Go take a wide stance you...
LOL! :-)
oh how sad...I just know I won’t be able to sleep tonight because of this.
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