Chris Shays Last Republican Congressman in all of New England

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Shays won't taken out in '08 cause he'll pull an Arnold and run to the left in the next two years.

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And have some wingnut take him out in the primary?

Hopefully Nutmeggers have a longer political memory than Californians.

Ummm this is Connecticut... Our most conservative major political figure is Joe Lieberman.  Our GOP are all pro-choice and moderate on everything except Iraq.  Wing-nuts not need apply.  The GOP bench has no one.

Shays will move to the left and come down hard on Bushco in the next two years.  Fully expect one of the major bills comming out of the house to have his name on it that spits on them.  And Lieberman will be there every step of the way to back Shays.

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An interesting tidbit from a former GOP Congressional Staffer:  Will Chris Shays run for Gov when Rell's term is up?

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Just before I read your post I always thinking about that.  It would make better political sense for him to run for Governor.  Connectictut voters don't mind electing moderate Republicans to the governorship.  However, the GOP has held the office since 1998 and 2010 might be time for a change?

Further the Democrats hold supermajorities in both chambers of our legislature.  So even someone who usually votes party line Democrat will vote Republican.  On the other hand it means that the Gov lacks a lot of the power that they would otherwise have.  Yet Chris Shays would carry a lot of weight as Governor, much more than Jodi Rell does.  She basically signs what the legislature puts on her Desk while I think Shays would really help shape policy...  Anyway since his retarded foriegn policy wouldn't come into play he would get my vote for Gov.

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Sure, it could happen. But I don't think he is going to go from AG of Connecticut to a House seat. He's more suited for Governor.

The only way he would do that is if he figured that it would be easier to be elected from the house seat than as AG to the Senate.  He wants to be in the Senate not Gov. =)

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Ned Lamont is considering running against Shays in 08.

Source?  I believe I would have heard something about this.  I know people are asking him to do so but I have not heard a single person say he has said he was even considering it....

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I think I missed a ton, but I think the point is clear: who do you want to lose Bill Sali or Chirs Shays

The other side of that coin is that you'd replace Shays with a strong Democrat and Sali with a weak one...

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But You don't have many Republicans like Shays and we'd take his seat when he retires.  Some of these moderates and conservitives are stronger than one would think.

Sure strong about for example supporting the debacle in Iraq or strong about favoring corporations over people and the rich over the middle class.  Strong about taking away personal liberties...

If you support the war in Iraq you're not a moderate in any way you're a radical supporting the use of aggressive warfare.

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Do you really believe all of your own b*llsh*t? You seriously think every person supporting the war in Iraq is a "radical"? You can't just pick your own favourite issue and say that every person who disagrees with you is a radical.

Militant radical terrorists on the level of Bin Laden's supporters.  People who have no moral backbone in any way.  People who are so violent and murderous that they would advocate the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people for no reason at all.  People who need to kill themselves before they start murdering more innocent people.  Murderous vile monsters.

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He now opposes the Iraq war (though for questionable reasons)

LOL Shays is a die hard supporter of the Iraq war and has been the entire time.  Sure he might say Bush messed up a little... Then again only the blindest of blind people can't see that.  Shays is a terrorist when it comes to his foreign policy but he isn't an idiot.  Oh and if he didn't say some stuff it would have cost him his seat.

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Privatize social security:  Check
Anti-Labor:  Check
Bankruptcy bill:  Check
Corporate Welfare > Individual Welfare: 

Worse than any Democratic rep that would replace him for damn sure.