Chafee votes against Owen's confirmation

Providence Journal ^ | May 25, 2005 | John Mulligan

[Malesherbes]

Chaffee reminds me of some minor character in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, but the problem here is not Chaffee The problem is Rhode Island.

[Defiant]

They have to walk before they run. The change in attitudes is shown in how Bush gained in those areas even though he was demonized. Chaffee has his lucid moments. I have seen him on various issues act like he has a backbone.

I can forgive Chafee his ACU rating. I can't forgive his failure to support the party on what are party loyalty votes. These include all the nominees of the party's president. Chafee goes out of his way to stab Bush and the party in the back at times when it counts the most and when he can get the most damage out of it. That's what I can't abide.

Other Northeast RINOs have similar voting records but don't have this trait.

My view is, if they are from the liberal wing, work hard to get a RINO president, a Giuliani or McCain. When that guy is elected, I will be just as strong in demanding that all Republicans support his nominees, and work for his programs. What Chafee wants to do is demand that conservatives who are elected nationwide conform to his liberal point of view that is peculiar to his tiny state.

[KC Burke]

Your points are well made.

[scouse]

he's about the most Conservative Republican that would ever get elected in his state these days.....

His state has only four electoral college votes. We should give this state to the dems and go after one of their bigger states.

[leprechaun9]

How did he survive his father's support for Partial Birth Abortion?

[TitansAFC]

---"The thing that gets me about Chafee, though, is that while he is a de facto Democrat because he is from a hard-core Democrat state and everybody simply seems to accept this, Democrats from hard-core Republican states like the Dakotas blithely slip along as the most obnoxious liberals they can be. What gives?"---

I agree. I'm just one of those Conservatives who'll take what we can get from the really, really blue states.

It makes a difference on a lot of things, even having a Liberal Republican (RINO). There's Senate leadership, budget priorities, ethics investigations, etc. Sometimes it does bode better than having a natural Democrat. At least we get something where otherwise we'd get absolutely nothing.