Sunday, November 12, 2006
Lincoln Chafee, not a Moderate, too far Left Even to be a RINO
-By Warner Todd Huston
Here is the topper for the horrible elections we just suffered through.
Senator Lincoln D. Chafee of Rouges Island is claiming he lost because he is a "centrist"!!
But, it doesn't surprise me that the New York Times gave this loser a platform from which to spew his lies!
I can't take any more of that. Go to the NYT site if you want to finish reading this clap-trap.
Now, how is it that a "moderate" is someone who votes against EVERYTHING the GOP proposes? Doesn't that more properly make him a leftist? In fact, he is so far left, he doesn't even qualify as a RINO (Republican in name only). He is just an outright leftist. (a 26% ACU rating, by the way)
He didn't lose his election because he is a "moderate". He lost because he is indistinguishable from leftist, Democrats and his constituents couldn't understand why not vote for a REAL Democrat if they were going to have one anyway?
Even if his winning re-election would have kept the Senate in GOP hands, I celebrate this idiot's departure from public life. He was a millstone around our necks for far, far too long.
Go home, Linkie. And don't let the chamber doors hit you in the rear end on the way out!
Here is the topper for the horrible elections we just suffered through.
Senator Lincoln D. Chafee of Rouges Island is claiming he lost because he is a "centrist"!!
But, it doesn't surprise me that the New York Times gave this loser a platform from which to spew his lies!
Holding to the Center, Losing My Seat
By Lincoln D, Chafee
LAST Tuesday, I was one of the many moderate Republican casualties of the anti-Bush virulence that swept the country. Despite my having voted against the Iraq war resolution, my reputation for independence, the editorial endorsement of virtually every newspaper in my state, and a job approval rating of 63 percent, I did not win. Why?
Back in December 2000, after one of the closest elections in our nation's history, Vice President-elect Dick Cheney was the guest at a weekly lunch meeting of a small group of centrist Republicans. Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and I were honored to have the opportunity to visit with him on the eve of a session of Congress in which, because of Republican defeats, the Senate would be evenly divided at 50-50.
I can't take any more of that. Go to the NYT site if you want to finish reading this clap-trap.
Now, how is it that a "moderate" is someone who votes against EVERYTHING the GOP proposes? Doesn't that more properly make him a leftist? In fact, he is so far left, he doesn't even qualify as a RINO (Republican in name only). He is just an outright leftist. (a 26% ACU rating, by the way)
He didn't lose his election because he is a "moderate". He lost because he is indistinguishable from leftist, Democrats and his constituents couldn't understand why not vote for a REAL Democrat if they were going to have one anyway?
Even if his winning re-election would have kept the Senate in GOP hands, I celebrate this idiot's departure from public life. He was a millstone around our necks for far, far too long.
Go home, Linkie. And don't let the chamber doors hit you in the rear end on the way out!
# posted by Publius @ 11/12/2006 06:50:00 AM 
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