Posted on 09/11/2008 12:35:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
He is clearly as screwed up now as he was in the senate. Good riddence...
Inside his head?
When will this Man stop embarrassing an entire State! Seriously, we used to be neighbors, and I watched him spend several minutes feeling tomatoes and scratching his head. He just kept looking at the grocery list his Wife obviously gave him, with a screwed up look on his face. He finally gave up, without making a decision. Should we expect anything intelligent to come out of his bobble headed mouth?
The use of the term “Cocky Wacko” shows a strong command for the English language. There may yet be a reason why he is a “former”; although I am surprised he was “ever”.
*sarcasm*
The rantings of an in-the-closet poof.
and Chafee is a wacky cuckoo.
Why wouldn’t he? He was against the Iraq War and against the Second Amendment. This guy is in no way a real Republican, and I’m sure Sarah offends his delicate sensibilities.
I’m so glad Whitehouse beat him in the Senate race. I rather have a real liberal than this poser stabbing the GOP in the back.
Lincoln Chafee is a joke. It’s just too bad that he was elected in 2000. The Democrat candidate that year (a pro-life moderate-liberal) was the better choice.
I know. I endorsed Bob Weygand in 2000. He was a lot less creepy than Missing Linc.
Oh, and to the idiot that wrote the article, Chafee left the GOP last year (officially — intellectually way long before that), I was the one to break the story on FR. He is not “Rhode Island Republican”, he is ultraleftist Democrat puke registered “Non-Party.”
Chafee ought to turn in his GOP credentials altogether and announce he’s a ‘Rat, rather than posing as a “Republican” for Obama. Not too may people in the GOP would miss him, especially now that he holds no political office.
Good riddance to that treacherous POS!
I wouldn’t have backed Weygand, control control.
However it wouldn’t have mattered, I’m sure Chafee would have switched if Jeffords hadn’t. Also I bet he would’ve in 03/04 if his vote would have given it to the rats.
“’I just sent money to Obama, I couldn’t sleep last night’”
ROTFL!
Actually, that was partly my worry, but in 2000, I hadn’t calculated that the GOP would lose the Senate — I fully expected us to retain seats such as Slade Gorton in WA, where he was running against a one-term wonder ex-Congresswoman, and in MO with Ashcroft, whom had won in a commanding victory in ‘94 and there was no reason to toss him — had Carnahan not died, I think he would’ve eked out a victory, and the “victory” by Carnahan was questionable on its face since he was “technically” no longer a resident of the state with his passing, but the GOP didn’t have the balls to argue the point, let alone the questionable voting in St. Louis past the poll closing time.
Bill Roth’s loss in DE was expected, he was past his prime and would’ve lost in ‘94 had it not been for the landslide. Connie Mack should’ve run again in FL and resigned afterwards, allowing Jeb to get in an appointee. MI with Spence Abraham shouldn’t have been lost, but he was to blame for it. Rod Grams in MN was also in a bad spot and was constantly under attack by the local media that used his son’s problems to whip him with. Failure to win the NE open seat was another.
We had a shot in NJ with Bob Franks, but when we run against a gazillionaire, it makes it difficult (yet a swing of 45k votes would’ve turned it). We should’ve recruited Gary Johnson in NM. The marquee race in NY and Rudy was probably our best bet, but not having him in NYC on 9/11 would’ve been a fiasco. The pissant Mark Green would’ve made Ray Nagin look as competent as Reagan. Outgoing Gov. Schafer should’ve run against Conrad in ND. Byrd should’ve had a better challenger (ex-Gov. Underwood ? Even though he was in his 70s). Lastly, Tommy Thompson should’ve run against Kohl in WI.
A stronger effort in those contests, instead of dropping us to 50, could’ve seen us rise to 60 !
As it was, Jeffords’ switch was more important because he was a senior Republican and Committee Chairman. Missing Linc was a pissant, an appointee barely a year in office and it’s unlikely the Dems would’ve turned over a committee to him over the heads of Dems that had been in office for years.
That bit of electoral history you posted makes me realize how incompetent many of our Senators are at holding onto their offices. Most of our pickups come when the Dem steps down. The last Democratic senatorial incumbent we ever beat was Tom Daschle in 2004-and he did a lot to earn that-and by only a few thousand votes. Even in 1994, we only defeated two incumbents, and two rather conspicious ones, the would-be majority leader Jim Sasser and the Dems’ would-be rising star Harris Wofford. Meanwhile, the Dems can plow through five or six of our guys in one sitting: witness 2006, 2000, and 1986.
It’s true. If all those Senate Dems hadn’t retired in ‘94, we’d not have won the body that year. The fact we only knocked off those 2 incumbents (Sasser, in my state, and Wofford in PA, who didn’t have a good grasp on the seat he hadn’t held for a full term) was fairly poor. We had the opportunity to and should’ve knocked off Feinstein (with Huffington) in CA; Kennedy in MA (with Slick Willard); Kerrey in NE; Bryan in NV; Lautenberg in NJ; Bingaman in NM; Moynihan in NY; Conrad in ND; Robb in VA; and Kohl in WI. 10 additional seats with challengers that received at or above the 40% mark. In fact, only 3 candidates received less than 40% that year (against HI-Akaka; CT-Lieberman; & Byrd-WV).
One of the worst examples where the Democrats destroyed us, indeed, the single worst slaughter for Senate seats against Republicans since the advent of popular elections, was in 1958. They knocked off 10 GOP incumbents in CT (Tom Dodd over Bill Purtell); ME (Ed Muskie over Fred Payne); MI (Phil Hart over Charles Potter); MN (Eugene McCarthy over Ed Thye); NV (Howard Cannon over Mollie Malone); OH (Stephen Young over John Bricker); UT (Frank Moss over Arthur Watkins); both WV seats (Jennings Randolph over John Hoblitzell & Robert Byrd over Chapman Revercomb); & WY (Gale McGee over Frank Barrett).
In addition, they took 5 open seats: both Alaskan seats, CA (GOP leader Bill Knowland’s seat), IN & NJ. A 15-seat gain in one swoop. We dropped to 34 seats. Add to that, we had to scramble to avoid losing 7 seats in AZ (Goldwater in a rematch with Ernest McFarland); DE (John Williams over Gov. Elbert Carvel); MD (Glenn Beall over Nancy Pelosi’s father, Tom D’Alesandro, Jr); NE (Hruska over future Gov. Frank Morrison). We held (by narrow margins) three open GOP seats, all won by liberal Congressmen (not much of a victory): in NY (Kenneth Keating, who’d lose to Bobby Kennedy in ‘64, carried in partly due to Rockefeller’s coattails); PA (Hugh Scott over Gov. George Leader) and VT (Winston Prouty) (which in the same election sent a Democrat to Prouty’s House seat, the first one elected to federal office in 108 years, and a man who on some charts ranked as the most ultra-left member of Congress in the 20th century, William Meyer — but he was dumped in 1960).
We literally could’ve ended up with 27 seats in the January 1959 session (to 71 for the Dems). Only in the mid ‘30s had we shrunk to such tiny proportions, bottoming out at 17 (!) after the 1936 nuclear wipeout. There were so few members, they actually did away with the Minority Whip position.
It’s really sad the number of blown opportunities.
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