Lincoln Chafee launches presidential exploratory committee

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Wait, this isn't a late April Fools joke?

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Wait, this isn't a late April Fools joke?

No, a candidate considering running against the anointed one is not a joke.

LMFAO. Yeah, you're right. Chafee is a Very Serious Candidate and I should take him Very Seriously.

[IceSpear]

Wait, this isn't a late April Fools joke?

No, a candidate considering running against the anointed one is not a joke.

LMFAO. Yeah, you're right. Chafee is a Very Serious Candidate and I should take him Very Seriously.

Hillary was inevitable in 2008 too! And then Obama came out of NOWHERE and defeated her, so you better take him seriously!!1!

lol

I mean, I get that certain people are getting extremely desperate now that both Hillary and Warren have made their intentions clear, but Chafee? He makes O'Malley look like a formidable juggernaut.

[IceSpear]

Wait, this isn't a late April Fools joke?

No, a candidate considering running against the anointed one is not a joke.

LMFAO. Yeah, you're right. Chafee is a Very Serious Candidate and I should take him Very Seriously.

Hillary was inevitable in 2008 too! And then Obama came out of NOWHERE and defeated her, so you better take him seriously!!1!

lol

I mean, I get that certain people are getting extremely desperate now that both Hillary and Warren have made their intentions clear, but Chafee? He makes O'Malley look like a formidable juggernaut.

I wasn't serious but I think you've noticed that Of course Hillary will be the nominee.

I know, I was talking in general, not to you.

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If candidates with the resumes of Chafee, Webb and O'Malley had been running against Gore in 2000, it would have been considered a serious fight. It does speak to Hillary's strengths, and perhaps an element of identity politics among Democratic primary voters, that none of these guys are considered competitive.

Eh, I disagree with you there.

Webb - Served one term in the Senate, then seemingly left politics for good, thus losing a lot of relevance in the process. Served as Ronald Reagan's Navy secretary, not exactly a great selling point in a Democratic primary.

Chafee - R turned I turned D who had such horrible approval ratings that he didn't run for re-election? He would've been considered a joke against Gore as well.

O'Malley - He has no real problems, but as Pawlenty showed us, a bland persona alone can kill you. Though this would've been neutralized by Gore's blandness.

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Despite having been a Republican more recently, he's certainly more of a Democrat than Clinton. If O'Malley or Sanders don't work out, Chafee is a good backup candidate, since his positions on the issues are better than Webb's.

Lincoln Chaffee, who voted for the Bush Tax Cuts and wanted to privatize Social Security, is more of a Democrat than Hillary Clinton and a good candidate for jfern. What a principled a progressive!

Don't forget his vote for Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader.

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Despite having been a Republican more recently, he's certainly more of a Democrat than Clinton. If O'Malley or Sanders don't work out, Chafee is a good backup candidate, since his positions on the issues are better than Webb's.

Lincoln Chaffee, who voted for the Bush Tax Cuts and wanted to privatize Social Security, is more of a Democrat than Hillary Clinton and a good candidate for jfern. What a principled a progressive!

Don't forget his vote for Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader.

Criticizing him for that?  Talk about nitpicking...

The anti-Hillary squad should be the last people to talk about nitpicking.

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LMFAO.

Chafee is such an unexpected goldmine of comedy.

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I'm guilty of it, but why is there a massive desire in Presidential Politics for centrist figures like Huntsman, Bloomberg, Chaffee etc?

Chafee isn't centrist. He's to the left of Hillary Clinton on a number of things.

And he has a pathway to victory, a clear one at that. Especially if Sanders doesn't run.

Does that pathway involve Hillary dying before the Iowa caucus but after the filing deadline?