Lincoln Chaffee on Maddow ...... he is one angry, bitter man

[Stinky The Clown]

He has as much bile toward what is left of the repubican party as any one person I can think of.

He was on Palin and Wilson and South Carolina and Alabama and outrageous tactics and primary challenges from right wing losers .........

Hahaha .... you tell 'em, Linc.

[proud patriot]

1. come on over to the Democratic Party Lincoln

:hi:

[FrenchieCat]

4. He left the Republican party about a year or so ago.......

[SoCalDem]

2. Too bad he did not realize that there is no republican party anymore

the ones like him, who remained for a long time, have probably spun off into independents, and all that's left now is mouth-breathing racist bozos

[malaise]

3. He was almost in tears at the end

Sad

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. That may be the next governor of Rhode Island

Compared to some of the people who claim to be Democrats in this state, I might vote for him.

[Jennicut]

6. He was an oldtime New England liberal Repub.

I would say our governor in CT is a lot like that but there are not many left.
I wish Lincoln Chaffee the best, the man gets it that the party he was once part of has gone down the tubes and he left it.

[JerseygirlCT]

8. I'm not sure what M. Jodi is, really

a nice lady who hasn't got a clue is my strongest impression.

I think I'd greatly prefer Lincoln Chaffee, myself.

[Jennicut]

13. Chaffee is better, I agree. LOL. Jodi Rell is not the worst Repub I have ever come across.

I still voted Dem against her but there are worse Repubs to live under.

[WeDidIt]

7. The Left would do well to remember the lessons of Lincoln Chaffee

It's okay to primary a Joe Lieberman. You might be able to primary an Arlen Specter. Forget primarying a Max Baucus unless you're will to accept a Jim Webb as the primary opponent. Forget about primarying a Blanche Lincoln or a MAry LAndrieu unless you are will to accept a Ben Nelson in their place.

I'm pretty far to the left, but I recognize when the left in our party is willing to bite off its own nose to spite its face.

The public option is another example of this, and yes, much of the blame for that lies with Obama. He needed to be more proactive early on to insure the public option. The single payer option needed to be on the table so you could end up with the Republicans begging for a public option. IT's too late to cry over spilt milk and we need to start health care reform and get off this century old jag of talking about starting health care refomr.

[Luminous Animal]

11. Chafee was not primaried out. He lost to a Democrat in the general.

[Jennicut]

14. And we have Sheldon Whitehouse, whom I love

[WeDidIt]

19. And we can have a Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island

We cannot have a Sheldon Whitehouse from Arkansas or Nebraska.

[Captain Hilts]

27. Isn't he great? I wish I still lived there and could vote for him. I will...for Prez!

[WeDidIt]

16. The right primaried him. He won the primary

but expended valuable resources fending off the primary challenge. He faced a well funded opponent from the Democrats in the general and lost. HAd he not been primaried, he would have likely won having the necessary resources. HAd he lost the primary, his challenger would have gone down to horrible defeat in the general.

[Bandit]

26. I do not agree that the Left is in any way equivalent to the Right

Just because the Right has successfully demonized the word Liberal for the last three decades does not mean there is one ounce of truth to their discourse. The country has been moving steadily Right for three decades now and it is going to take some hard pushing to get it anywhere near what was considered the Middle in the Seventies. I am sick and tired of these people that say they are middle of the road when thirty years ago they would have been considered Hard Right..We need to put up Primary challenges until we start to see some swing back to a rational society.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. Bitter? Naw, not bitter -

Angry at what's happened to a party he once revered, as did his father - a great man.

But, I didn't get any kind of bitter vibe from him. More sadness, actually.

I like Linc, and I hope he runs again. I think he'd do well, RI loving the Chaffee family.

Imagine what Barry Goldwater would say about these clowns (nothing personal, Stinky) running around, representing themselves as "conservatives"!

He'd take out his gun and shoot them. That's what I think...............

[stray cat]

10. My impression as well - I didn't see bitter - just rationale and in touch with reality

[Cogito ergo doleo]

17. Not bitter at all. He just seems sad, as you say. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Any republican of principle would be saddened and heartbroken by what has happened to the repukes.

[Canuckistanian]

15. I always felt sorry for him

As much as I did for James Jeffords. Sane people in outrageous times.

[PassingFair]

18. He voted against the IWR, which is more than you can say for many DEMS...

I hope we have made full use of the information
he was privy to while he was in office.

I would take a Chaffee over a Lieberman, ANY DAY.

[madrchsod]

20. i remember when there were intelligent republicans

even if they disagreed at least they respected your position.

[Captain Hilts]

21. It's his own damned fault he didn't change parties. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. You know I usually don't give repukes the benefit of the doubt bu

I have a feeling that he's staying in the party just to rub it in their faces. But I could be wrong.

[Captain Hilts]

24. It's not the way he's wired. He just wasn't into being a senator. My firm was

working in his last campaign. There was just no oomph to it. He wasn't into it.

I like the guy, but his staying a Republican helped put Trent Lott into the leadership position.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

25. I was thinking more of the fact that he as of now still considers himself a republican even though h

of the senate. I just thought maybe he hasn't switched parties just to annoy them. But probably not. It would be funny though.

[Blackhatjack]

23. When the Repub Party Became the Party of Rightwing Conserv Fundies You Knew....

... there was no longer a place for liberal or even moderate voices.

And now the Repubs who 'rode Rove's horse' to victory are now complaining that the Repub Party is inhabited by crazies? Sorry, but you knew they were crazy when you re-upped your Party Membership Card.

I have nothing against Chaffee, but he was slow to acknowledge the insanity of those who took over the Republican Party and he paid the price for remaining attached to it.

We all knew there would be a price to pay for following the coalition of crazies that Rove put together to wrench control of Congress and the White House.

[Hekate]

28. Old fashioned Republican values have been seriously betrayed. That's the source of his pain....

... and I don't blame him a bit.

Hekate