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One of the last remnants of what the Republican Party was pre-Reagan. Had the opportunity to leave it and save his seat, but chose the latter...kinda shows he must of not liked being a Senator too much.
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by marcvstraianvs on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:28:23 PM PDT
to leave the Republican party was to turn his back on his family's history. That's a lot to ask for a man whose family dates back to Colonial Rhode Island.
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by aaraujo on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:30:23 PM PDT
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he had a duty to uphold the Constitution and he knew damn well what the GOP was doing to it and this country. Therefore, by not leaving the GOP he functioned as another Bush enabler.
What FDR giveth; GWB taketh away.
by Marie on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:34:34 PM PDT
He's voted with Dems on many occasions. Do you expect that the handful of moderates in the GOP at the time could have done much about the GOP?
I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere ~ Thomas Jefferson
by valadon on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:38:03 PM PDT
his votes which were mostly better than those of many DEM Senators. Had Chafee bolted like Jeffords in '01, Daschle would have had a bit more power and that might have been enough to hold back the venality spewing out of the WH.
by Marie on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:55:08 PM PDT
...if only he had left the GOP before 2006.
If he had left then, we also might have 52 or 53 seats in the Senate, becuase we likely wouldn't have had to spend as much money in RI. Not only would that be better for us in general, it also would have meant that we could tell Turncoat Joe to "go Cheney himself," because, frankly, he just wouldn't have mattered.
by WayneNight on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:59:00 PM PDT
but not a bad point...
by valadon on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 06:12:23 PM PDT
will break the camel's back, which one is the "hundredth monkey" -- IOW what/who produces the tipping point. Jeffords could be blown as as just one -- with Chaffee, the message would have been more than two.
(Plus Lincoln wouldn't have had to sully his soul for five years by meeting with his GOP colleagues.)
by Marie on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 06:34:21 PM PDT
Did you ever see him in the Foreign Relations committee? For some reason he always seemed terrified to me.
What do you think his chances would have been had he gone Independent and then faced re-election? Do you think he could have run in RI like Jeffords did in Vermont? I wouldn't have minded him on our side. The Reps can have Lieberman...
by valadon on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 08:42:39 PM PDT
a decent lot of people. At least you can talk to them, which is not really all that bad to have in an opposition party. After all, conservatives do have a good idea every now and then.
Barack Obama -- The President we were promised as kids!
by Jimdotz on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:31:41 PM PDT
are not neoconservatives.
They are the last remnants of the old-time Progressive Republicans of Theodore Roosevelt from a century past.
by aaraujo on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:34:01 PM PDT
wide narrow
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