Chafee unsure of staying with Republican party

[bgwah]

I like Chafee, but all I can say is... too late.

He should've considering an independent run, or just gone Democrat a while ago! He would have won...

[dazzleman]

Who cares what he does now?

[Smash255]

im deeply disappointed in chafee's comments.

Like many other of the oldschool liberal Rockefeller Republicans, Chafee finally has had enough.  The GOP moved well to his right awhile ago, but he held out hope that they would come to their senses and stop playing to the extreme right wing of society.  it seems like unlike some people here, Chafee has seen reality and knows the GOP is going to stay and pander to the far right and fleave the old Rockefeller type Republicans even further back.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Chafee should pull a Lowell Weicker and run for Governor in 2010 as an Independent. I'd be willing to endorse him.

[dazzleman]

Chafee should pull a Lowell Weicker and run for Governor in 2010 as an Independent. I'd be willing to endorse him.

Wow, that would make all the difference for him.  You better get on the horn right now and tell him.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Chafee to me is a puzzling figure. He could have switched parties and easily kept his seat. He agrees with the Democrats on almost every major issue, and why he remained in a party that despised and ridiculed him, and that he repeatedly stated had deviated from the ideas he believed in and was harming the country.

[Rococo4]

Now I am real glad my money went to this guy courtesy of the NRSC.......

[Eraserhead]

Chafee should move to CT and run against Lieberman.

[HardRCafé]

Chafee can return to his cocaine habit now, if not already.

[gorkay]

It doesn't make him look too good that he's talking about abandoning the GOP now that they are in the minority, deserting a sinking ship. Ever notice how politicians who switch parties hardly ever go from the majority party to the minority party?

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I like Chafee. He hasn't changed his political opinions, it's just that his political opinions have become very divergent from the GOP in many ways over time because of shifting tides within the GOP. Thus the GOP really left him. I respect him for sticking with his beliefs insted of shifting them to match where his party was going - isn't that a sign of loyalty to principals as opposed to political convenience?

It's a shame he didn't declare himself an independent that would caucus with the Democrats for at least the balance of Bush's term. He would have won, and in my mind Rhode Island would have as well.

I wish him well. After these comments he made, I imagine he has no place in the GOP if he wishes to  have a future in politics.