Lincoln Chafee is a Piece of Human Waste.
By Leon H Wolf Posted in 2008 | Backstabbers | Democrats | Liberals | Men without Honor | Morons | Traitors — Comments (50) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Lincoln Chafee has always been an intellectual lightweight and moral coward. Since losing in 2006, Chafee has been on a mission to bone up his "traitor" and "backstabber" cred. After receiving millions of dollars of party money to help him in both his primary bid against a more conservative Republican and against his Democratic opponent, he decided to repay the Republican party by publicly leaving it, thus raising the collective IQ of both Republicans and "Independents."
The latest episode in Chafee craven stupidity comes in his decision to endorse Barack Obama on the basis of Obama's... well, don't expect specifics from people on why Obama would be a good President. He just would, darn it! In any event, Chafee's endorsement in this race would be as irrelevant to me as Billy Zane's endorsement in this race, except for this graf from the AP piece:
In an odd bit of timing, Chafee made the announcement the same day Republican front-runner Sen. John McCain planned his first campaign trip to Rhode Island. McCain's last visit here was to campaign and raise money for Chafee during his failed re-election bid.
"That's just the way the system works," Chafee said when asked about McCain's visit. "I'm sure Senator McCain will understand."
During that race, Obama came to Rhode Island twice for Whitehouse, who has endorsed Clinton.
You stay classy, Linc Chafee. And stay true to your friends.
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Linc up, they spent a mil plus running attack ads against his Reaganesque opponent in the primary, Steve Laffey.
I _do_ understand the whole party thing as Neil and absentee so eloquently present it, but it was the primary expenditures attacking a Republican who was a Reagan conservative which marked the end of my contributions to the national Republican infrastructure.
It is also decisions like that (along with things like Warner supporting a moderate Republican against Ollie North after he won the Republican primary in Virginia) which make it _excedingly_ difficult for me to listen to all this 'it's time to unify for the sake of the Party' meme.
absentee...I need another list of clergyman.
"All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
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Chafee a couple of days ago.
Some people just aren't worth defending, but the political class will never figure that out. After all, they're friends.
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It's not just that a Lefty Republican like Lincoln Chafee is not supporting McCain. Hey, remember that Chafee did not support President Bush in 2004; he wrote in someone else's name on his ballot.
It's that this reminds me that John McCain, to his credit and to the best of my knowledge, McCain has always supported Republicans. In fact, if I remember correctly, John McCain even supported Alan Schlesinger against Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont in Connecticut in 2006. And that includes the general election when Lieberman was running as an independent.
Trust me, this makes John McCain look better in my book!
Primo example of why you just don't blindly support Republicans because they have an 'R' next to their name. I'd rather fight and re-build the Rhode Island Repubican Party with a darkhorse candidate like Steven Laffey than support a Lincoln Chaffee because he has an 'R' next to his name and appeals to teh media and moderate Democrats. Laffey had a shot at the nomination and had an outside chance of beating the pathetic Sheldon Whithouse. Chafee was utterly useless and having him around hurt the Party more than it helped.
I've been compiling some data on real RINOS and so-called RINOS and Linc Chafee is the quintessential RINO and it is a shame that the NRSC couldn't lay off Steven Laffey. He cuold have beaten Chafee, who lost anyway despite media love for the Republican maverick (sound familiar).
John McCain is bitten by another Maverick Republican. The irony. If you don't recall, Chaffee played the 'Republican Party left me" card and cited fiscal repsonsibility and tolerance (ala John McCain) as his primary reasons for leaving.
The only reason to support Chaffee was the knowledge that Whitehouse, an arch-lefty, will probably be in office until the day he dies.
I have learned to accept liberal Republicans where they can't be avoided, like Collins and Snowe, but they have to be loyal to the party on something. Chaffee was bad on everything and dumb as a rock to boot. And now, at long last, we see that even personal loyalty is beyond him.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Inspired partly by Lincoln Chafee
I believe that we cannot pretend to look into a man’s soul and figure out whether he is a conservative. I also believe that we cannot simply and naively look at his voting record to figure out whether he is a conservative. He or she must be judge by the context of his or her district, times, and constituents and the key questions I believe are twofold:
1) Did this politician advance conservative dialogue and how often did this politician push the dialogue and politics of his or her respective district to the Right and;
2) When ideological issues arose that were of little or no concern to the pragmatic and apolitical bulk of their respective constituencies, by a preponderance of the evidence, how did that politician lean."
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/swamp_yankee/2008/feb/09/my_spring_project...
When he made a public spectacle of refusing to vote for W in 2004. A guy like that should have never received support from the party.
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I am ok with RINO's when they are dedicated partisans, that actively work to support the Republican Party (Think Rudy). I have no use for RINO's that consistently seeks to undermine the party.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
Personally I think a dedicated partisan RiNO is a contradiction in terms, though, heh. If you're a dedicated partisan, then you're a true Republican.
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for using such a turn of phrase to describe a political opponent.
"If all men were just, there would be no need of valor."
- Agesilaus
Probably because I didn't use it because he's a political "opponent." As far as politics is concerned, Lincoln Chafee is irrelevant now. As far as being a human being is concerned, Lincoln Chafee is merely a piece of human waste.
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And you seem unaware of the irony of implying Chafee is not "classy" ... in a post with a title like that.
"If all men were just, there would be no need of valor."
- Agesilaus
So because Leon is a Christian he's under some rule not to point out the obvious?
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Read the Inferno some time , Aligheri had the right of it.
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-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
the best part of this story is watching the liberal dems fall all over themselves talking about Chafee's "courage" in coming out for Sen. Obama.
These are the same folks who thought it absolutely essential to remove the Linc-ster from the Senate just about 15 months ago.
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Do not forget Steven J. Coaty. He has recently shown some promise.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
That minimizes sites such as this. Foremost is the subject of the thread. The more we talk like that, screaming headlines of calling people 'waste', the more we are regarded as 'wingnuts' who hate everyone who does not fit their ideology purely. If I were a moderate, independent or curious, I'd immediately think worse of Republicans without venturing inside. The closer we get to the election, the more imperative it is to act a bit more mature. You don't convince people you are right with this kind of conduct.
As to the actual content, Chaffee continues his spilled milk tour. It's not courageous to support someone from the other side when you are out of office. That is more feeble and selfish. Had Chafee stood up when he was a Senator and said 'no thanks, Johnny, but I want Obama to endorse ME' then at least he is a man of conviction (albeit confused and self-defeating). This reveals the Link as concerned only with burning bridges to a past where he could not win. At least when a contrarian such as Lieberman, or even McCain, oppose someone, they tell everyone. This is spineless, petulant and indicative of the type of wishy-washy politician of which the party is better off dispensing itself.
He's only looking out for your best interest.
"Linc the Stink" he's irrelevant now.
This is a lesson for the NRSC - STAY OUT OF PRIMARIES. Wasted a bunch of money that would have been helpful elsewhere in actually retaining control of the Senate.
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For he's an emunctory fellowwwww...
That nobody can deny.
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is against the reader. What if the offended party were rather he who has no need of a dictionary to unravel clever, euphemistic curses which, being against his own handiwork, are ultimately against his own person?
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"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Better than the other.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Does anyone seriously doubt that he'd have done the same thing had he won and seen the writing on the wall that Democrats would be in the Majority for the foreseeable future? Back when Jeffords jumped, Republicans had a great opportunity to take back the Senate, so Chafee stayed. In the current environment, I have no doubt that he'd have done the same thing and started caucusing with the Democrats. This is a prime example of why I won't reflexively support "Republican" candidates.
Well it's it's akin to Benedict Arnold favoring King George over Washington, no? Linc is just another gutless coward that lied about his convictions, turned his back on those supporting him and now is relegated to a footnote in some Congressional Record.
Now, where are all those party folks who came to RS and explicated ad nauseum why we should vote for Linc cradle to grave?
Just one really great example why they don't directly see a dime of my money anymore.
Linc, this "Bud's for you" since my guess is drinking and talking about the glory days are all that is going on in your life these days.
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I bet you a bunch of Democrats would say the same thing about Lieberman. Am I surprised by this? No of course not. He said he would not support Clinton because she voted for the war. You know the thing is that Republicans should of supported Chafee for 1 reason.
If outcome was 50/50 Senate split no matter what happened it would of stayed Republican control even if Chafee switched.
I laugh at people actually believe someone other that him would have any sort of chance at winning a Rhode Island Senate seat in 2006. I understand you people are angry but don't be stupid. There was no "outside" chance of anyone other than him winning as a Republican. He would of caucused originally with Republicans and the worst that would of happened is he would of endorsed Obama now as a Republican in the Senate instead of out of the Senate.
How many times have people who don't understand the rules of the Senate post and say "lets get Lieberman to caucus with us"? I swear it is every week but the thing is NOTHING would change. So here are your options
1) Supported Chafee and hope he would win so Republicans keep control of Senate and still control the agenda there.
2) Support some other person who has 0% chance of winning and make it even easier for Democrats to win in 2006.
Tough choice
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Notice to All - I am an independent who has voted for Senator Bayh (Democrat) and Senator Lugar (Republican) along with over 60% of my state. You may take what I say with a grain of salt at your own party'
The only question is whether or not he would have continued to call himself a Republican - and whether our people would kick him out and risk the New York Times squealing at them for their "extremism" and "lack of tolerance" or just grin and bear it.
What Chafee has done is despicable & he has truly stabbed McCain in the back.
Dear Sen. McCain;
Please understand who your true friends will be in this election. Chafee is not your friend.
Lincoln Chafee's endorsement is #1. Going away.
Heck, Obama (or Hillary) will carry RI by a huge margin, McCain has about as much chance there as in DC.
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...your opinion of Chafee's endorsement.
Which is topped by my opinion of your opinion of Chafee's endorsement .
Which is topped by your opinion of my opinion of your opinion of Chafee's endorsement.
Which is topped by my opinion of your opinion of my opinion of your opinion of Chafee's endorsement.
Which is topped by everyone's opinion of our opinions of each other's opinions.
Which is topped by...
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-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
... have endorsed Barack Obama even if he had prevailed against Whitehouse in 2006? Hands up anyone who thinks he would not have caucused with the Democrats even while calling himself a Republican?
And to think McCain is the RMSP's highest profile "Chafee Award winner ...
Well...he might have endorsed Clinton if he was still in the Senate.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
The award is named for John Chafee, not Linc Chafee. Bringing it up in this context is misleading and unfair to both John McCain and the late elder Chafee.
To link father and son makes no more sense than linking the two Ron Reagans politically.
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"I'm sure Senator McCain will understand."
I'm sure he will too.
I can't understand the broader point of view though - after all, Linc IS a Republican...
I can tell you as someone who did an Internship for the Senator while I was at Brown, helped on his campaign for him to keep his Senate Seat and even gave money just because I wanted Senate to stay Republican I am so sick over this.
The bottom line is that Lincoln is not all there the man has some damage from all the cocaine he did over the years and his father would be sick over what he did today. Lincoln is only looking out for himself and wants to be next mayor of Providence.
After all McCain did for him this is how he treats his friends? The man is a turn coat!
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