You do realize that your hero, the "true conservative" Fred Thompson openly ENDORSED and CAMPAIGNED for Chafee -- not only in the general election (as if that wasn't bad enough), but in the PRIMARY as well, right?
Fred claimed he agreed with Chafee on "most" issues. (I beg to disagree, if Fred was with Chafee on most issues he'd be a Democrat). And yet you strenuously objected when I referred to Fred Thompson as one of the good ol' boys of inside the beltway politics. Why else would Fred campaign for a Senator to the LEFT of Russ Feingold? The members of the world's most exclusive club take care of their own, and the party insiders would endorsed Joesph Stalin if he had an "R" next to his name.
Of course, if Mike Huckabee (or anyone else on your non-purist hit list) had traveled to Rhode Island to tout Chafee's virtues to Republican primary voters, you'd be blasting it on every thread of how it's proof that they're an evil RINO traitor who must be purged in the primary.
But how dare we call Fred -- who was best buddies with McCain and pimped for Linc Chafee -- a good ol' boy, right?
He was endorsing him as a Republican incumbent whom had previously won statewide. It was very ill-advised.
"Fred claimed he agreed with Chafee on "most" issues. (I beg to disagree, if Fred was with Chafee on most issues he'd be a Democrat). And yet you strenuously objected when I referred to Fred Thompson as one of the good ol' boys of inside the beltway politics. Why else would Fred campaign for a Senator to the LEFT of Russ Feingold? The members of the world's most exclusive club take care of their own, and the party insiders would endorsed Joesph Stalin if he had an "R" next to his name."
If Stalin had been a Republican incumbent and the difference between majority and minority status, quite possibly so. But I'm being sarcastic. Chafee was just an inconsequential pissant who wouldn't have been in the Senate were it not for his father's name, and were it not for the RINO Governor to have appointed him. I'd have voted for pro-lifer Democrat Bob Weygand in 2000 to have gotten him out of office. Fred is a loyal Republican and wanted a GOP majority. He was already out of office and had no particular reason to help the party in retirement, but he did so. I don't support the candidate he assisted here, but you and I both know why he did it.
"Of course, if Mike Huckabee (or anyone else on your non-purist hit list) had traveled to Rhode Island to tout Chafee's virtues to Republican primary voters, you'd be blasting it on every thread of how it's proof that they're an evil RINO traitor who must be purged in the primary."
Huckster wouldn't have gone to RI. We couldn't even get him to campaign for Republican candidates in Arkansas. That's the difference between him and Fred. Huckster was the same as Romney, who also couldn't be bothered to help Republican candidates in MA. Fred went out of his way to help, the other two wouldn't have bothered.