Posted on 10/01/2007 8:38:34 AM PDT by Dukes Travels
Lincoln Chafee, the man who less than a year ago served as the Republican Senator from Rhode Island, is apparently no longer a Republican today. That’s right, he recently dropped his affiliation with the party to become an independent. “It’s not my party anymore,” he says.
“Anymore?” When exactly was it ever your party?
It is extremely tempting to point at Chafee’s official change of affiliation and remind President Bush, Karl Rove and the rest of the Republican establishment just how wrong they were. You see, although they all knew how liberal Chafee was, they poured money, effort and endorsements into his 2006 primary election against a true conservative, Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey.
Chafee won the primary, but lost the general election to the Democrats anyway. After his November loss, conservative voices aimed a collective “I told you so” at the Republican establishment that betrayed principle for supposed electability. And now, Chafee’s not even a registered Republican. So here comes “I told you so,” Part 2.
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“The GOP wasted tons of campaign money on Chafee last year.”
At least he could have had the class to wait until his next election to become an independent.
I was showing you when the RNC got infiltrated.
Squirrels.
lol...as if that's breaking news.
We are pretty sure that Chafee was on the hit list of Republican Senators who have homosexual tendencies. McCain was giving them cover.
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