Posted on 10/13/2011 5:07:25 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
R.I. Gov. Lincoln Chafee says former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney is “a completely different person” as a presidential candidate than the man who was once a fellow member of the Republican Party’s moderate wing in the Northeast.
“It’s the same thing I saw with John McCain, and I saw with George Pataki and with Rudy Giuliani,” Chafee told WPRI.com during an interview at his office Wednesday.
Referencing a speech on foreign policy Romney gave last week at The Citadel, Chafee said: “The appeal you have to make to the Republican primary audience – that’s just alien to what’s in our best interests as a country.”
Chafee recalled that he used to share many of the same views as those men, noting that he and McCain were the only two Republican senators who voted against the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and that the Arizona senator “was good on climate change, he was good on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.”
“And I heard George Pataki, who was a three-term governor of New York, and was good on immigration, who attracted all sorts of Latino votes, he was good on the environment – and Rudy Giulini, he was mayor of New York City,” Chafee said.
“But when I heard them with national ambitions, it was a different person – a completely different person,” he continued. “It’s true in all their cases. And to hear Rudy Giuliani talking to a Republican primary audience is just – and that’s true with Mitt Romney. You just get pulled so far off.”
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I should probably read the whole article but why, Kiss my a$$ Romney.
Yes we know Lincoln.
Just goes to showya... Little Rhodies are even dumber than Massholes!!
Lincoln Chafee....pfffft
If there was no government in RI, the unemployment rate would be 95%!
That really is a great pic.
Wow! Now that's a real GOTV message for conservative voters!/sarc
I met a few Rhode Islanders on a flight a few months back - they are not amused with their state's terrible economy, and they were very vocal in their complaints.
I hate Robamaney with a passion!!!
He will never get my vote for anything.
FUMR!!
Well BOR said that he would be shocked if Mittens doesn’t get the nod. I say lets shock his socks off.
Perhaps the folks you met on the flight are the three or four non union Conservatives in the State!
Rhodies, as a whole vote pro union, pro labor, Big D.
Their livelihoods depend on it.
These RINO elitists don't even attempt to hide their contempt for us anymore.
Even "Lincoln" (named after the assassin of the American Republic)Chafee is calling FLIP SLICK WILLARD RINO ROMNEY out as a con man.
MYTH needs to get back to Wall Street and his Country Club.
And that’s the trouble with RINOmney.
He’s a different person every day...after his group O’trolls receives the latest polls.
There is no “there” there.
Probably.
Personally, I’m not a fan of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut - I liked the folks in Maine more.
Don’t get me started on New York and New Jersey.
Romney still sucks, even if this spoiled son of a senator doesn't like him.
Republican Party’s moderate wing in the Northeast.<<<<<
Kinda says it all!!
Me neither, but I live here.
Whaddayagonnado?
So many, many words. But it’s all Rhodesian for “Romney’s phony.”
Well, there are a few of us who know the secret conservative handshake up here.
REALLY? If so, I would like to order my secret de coder ring as well!
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