opinion of lincoln chafee

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

he gave the senate to Daschle which helped the GOP in the 2002 midterm elections.

That was Jim Jeffords from Vermont.  Chafee remained registered as a Republican and caucused as such for the entirety of his Senate career.

Weirdly enough.

[Supersonic]

HP.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

HP for being a party switcher.  FF when he was a Republican, though.

[MATTROSE94]

Was better in the Senate than he is as governor.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

HP for being a party switcher.  FF when he was a Republican, though.

I'll never get this. At least as a Democrat he's where he belongs, though I liked the whole "Independent Governor" thing the most--for Chafee, "liking" is really disliking the least--and not a Republican that opposes 95% of the agenda of his party. While we'd all like to go back to the days where TR, Bob LaFollette, and Cal Coolidge were in the same party, we're not there anymore. If there's no difference between the Republican and Democratic Senators of a state, why even put up a fight? Chafee didn't give a damn about the GOP or its success. He was a liberal and that was a fact. Not a moderate that you can tolerate because he'll help you 50% of the time. As a Democrat, he's in his proper place. His policies would be about the same regardless of his party, so I don't see why party registration should matter in terms of thinking them good or bad. Hell, my opinion of him is improved now that he's not a Republican. Again, Chafee would've opposed Bush one way or another in the Senate, and him opposing from outside the party is preferable to the whole of the structure than opposing from within. Becoming a Democrat was merely him shifting into where he belonged in the modern age. I'm repeating the same two ideas in different lights here, but I hope my point is getting across.

[TDAS04]

Chafee is my kind of progressive.  He is left on social, environmental, and foreign policy, and he is center-left on fiscal policy.  There is very little that I disagree with him on.

My only problem with Chafee is that it took him too long to figure out that he did not fit in with the increasingly-monolithic GOP.  You can't be a vegetarian and think that you could pass off as a cat.

[barfbag]

Thomas Dewey would be proud of him.

[TNF]

Chafee is my kind of progressive.  He is left on social, environmental, and foreign policy, and he is center-left on fiscal policy.  There is very little that I disagree with him on.

My only problem with Chafee is that it took him too long to figure out that he did not fit in with the increasingly-monolithic GOP.  You can't be a vegetarian and think that you could pass off as a cat.

Progressives don't favor the abolition of Social Security or bust unions.

[PJ]

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