Chaffee with 10 pt lead in recent poll

[A18]

These, of course, tend to be far more successful than yours.

Bold lie. The stock market has historically done better under Democratic presidents, wages have grown faster under Democratic presidents,  and GDP has grown faster under Democratic presidents.

You're a ing idiot. There have only been two Democratic presidents since the '60s, and one of them had the sh**ttiest economy in a generation. If you're saying the '90s was a larger boom than the '80s, yes, that's true, and since Clinton was Republican-lite, and had a Republican Congress for six of his eight years, I don't see how that says wonders about your socialism.

Before the '60s, we had nothing but Democrats and a RINO. You can't compare anything from that time frame.

[The Vorlon]

I like Chaffee.

Both parties need members who are not slaves to the party line and can muster a few votes for a good idea, even it it violates party orthodoxy.

The GOP has a fair number of senators who fit this discription (Smith, Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, Spector, Voinivich, Hagel, McCain)  While I few of these folks I don't particularly like, they st least think about an issue and simply don't follow blindly what Frist tells thewm to do...

The Dems have Breax, Landrue (sp) maybe Salazar and Nelson as well...

Nice to see the pot get stirred a bit by these "mavericks"

[A18]

It's Chafee.

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I like Chaffee.

Both parties need members who are not slaves to the party line and can muster a few votes for a good idea, even it it violates party orthodoxy.

The GOP has a fair number of senators who fit this discription (Smith, Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, Spector, Voinivich, Hagel, McCain)  While I few of these folks I don't particularly like, they st least think about an issue and simply don't follow blindly what Frist tells thewm to do...

The Dems have Breax, Landrue (sp) maybe Salazar and Nelson as well...

Nice to see the pot get stirred a bit by these "mavericks"

There are a lot more DINOs than RINOs. Ben Nelson has a horrible voting record. He has a 56 from the ACU. He's only a Democrat because the Democratic party is the "big tent" party. There are some others that stray more than Chafee does, Look at a lot of the important votes this year: Condi nomination, Gonzales nomination, Bankruptcy bill, Real ID Act, ANWM. All of those have at least a few Democrats voting for them.

[Lincoln Republican]

Unless the Democrats run a credible candidate, Chafee will win re-election to the Senate.

Patrick Kennedy could beat Chafee.  Kennedy's not running for Senate.

Jim Langevin could beat Chafee.  Langevin's not running for Senate.

At this point in time, I can't see any of the announced Democratic candidates beating Chafee.

If the Democrats were serious about winning this Senate seat, they should have persuaded Langevin to run as a Senate candidate, and should have told the raving looney leftist pro abortion wing nut feminazi man haters in the Dem Party to take a flying leap at the moon.

All this amounts to good news, overall, for the GOP.  It puts another seat in the Repulican column, and one less seat on the Democratic side.

If the Democrats fail to win this seat, and at the moment, that is the way it is heading, they have nobody to blame but themselves.  A Rhode Island Senate seat should normally be a relatively easy gain for the Democrats.

           

[Beet]

If the Democrats fail to win this seat, and at the moment, that is the way it is heading, they have nobody to blame but themselves. A Rhode Island Senate seat should normally be a relatively easy gain for the Democrats.
           

This is absurd. Chafee voted for Brown's confirmation yesterday. He is a solid partisan GOPer. Would Utah ever elect an equally solid Democrat? Never! If Democrats can't beat someone like Chafee in Rhode Island, it's a wonder that they can win anywhere.

[King]

This is absurd. Chafee voted for Brown's confirmation yesterday. He is a solid partisan GOPer. Would Utah ever elect an equally solid Democrat? Never! If Democrats can't beat someone like Chafee in Rhode Island, it's a wonder that they can win anywhere.

Chafee is just doing this so the national GOP won't fund any opposition to him in the RI Primary.  Nothing more and by December 2006 he will be back to his old self...

[Lincoln Republican]

If the Democrats fail to win this seat, and at the moment, that is the way it is heading, they have nobody to blame but themselves. A Rhode Island Senate seat should normally be a relatively easy gain for the Democrats.
           

This is absurd. Chafee voted for Brown's confirmation yesterday. He is a solid partisan GOPer. Would Utah ever elect an equally solid Democrat? Never! If Democrats can't beat someone like Chafee in Rhode Island, it's a wonder that they can win anywhere.

The point of my post is that the Democrats have to nominate the right candidate to beat Chafee.  So far, they have not come up with anyone I believe is capable of defeating Chafee for this seat.  If the Democrats fail to nominate a credible candidate, Chafee will win.  In that case, the Democrats will have only themselves to blame for not nominating a credible candidate who is capable of defeating Chafee.

Myself, I prefer Chafee to a Democrat anyway, so I hope the Democrats continue what they are doing in this Senate election, and that is, putting up a weak candidate.

Chafee voted for the Brown nomination, more power to him.

I certainly hope Utah would not elect a Democrat to the U.S. Senate.

I would not call Chafee a "solid partisan GOPer."  He is more of a moderate to liberal Republican, (a term used at one time was "Rockefeller Republican"), who sometimes sides with most other Republicans and sometimes doesn't.  A conservative Republican would not get elected to the Senate from Rhode Island.     

[Smash255]

If the Democrats fail to win this seat, and at the moment, that is the way it is heading, they have nobody to blame but themselves. A Rhode Island Senate seat should normally be a relatively easy gain for the Democrats.
           

This is absurd. Chafee voted for Brown's confirmation yesterday. He is a solid partisan GOPer. Would Utah ever elect an equally solid Democrat? Never! If Democrats can't beat someone like Chafee in Rhode Island, it's a wonder that they can win anywhere.

Chafee is quite moderate to even liberal.  he did vote for Brown's nomination, but he did vote against the Owens  nomination.  Cheffee is pretty much moderate on economic issues, pretty much a liberal on social issues (pro-choice, pro gun control,  against the death penatly, pro-environment).  Ontheissues.org rates Chafee as a moderate liberal, ACU gives him a 41 lifetime rating the Family Reserach council has a 0-100 rating based on % they vote with the Familyy Research Council (which is conservative) Chafee got a 29 from them, no Republican house or senate member scored lower (he actually scored lower than Laveign who could have been an opponent), the Eagle Forum gave him a 33 (out of 100) the lowest for any GOP senator (with several Dems scoring higher) & among the lowest of any Republicans in Congress (3 house members scored slighlty lower)

[Democratic Hawk]

Granted that Chaffee is no wing nut, I still hope to see him defeated by a Democrat in 2006

If Democrats are to regain the Senate they still must target liberal/moderate Republicans, as well as conservatives; in fact, they may need to field moderates, rather than liberals, when targetting conservative Republicans - that way they might get a moderate/liberal Senate majority - but the more moderate Democrats, as part of that, the better

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

These, of course, tend to be far more successful than yours.

Bold lie. The stock market has historically done better under Democratic presidents, wages have grown faster under Democratic presidents,  and GDP has grown faster under Democratic presidents.

The economy is a big pile of sh*t under your President, and won't get any better as long as Republicans run this country.

I don't think any person with half a brain could argue with that Scoonie - Bush has been hopeless as far as the economy and budget goes. He can't hold a light to Clinton as far as that goes

Dave