Here’s what Hugh Hewitt says about our RINO senator, Lincoln Chafee, in today’s Daily Standard:
“Stephen Laffey, the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, is being urged to take on Senator Lincoln Chaffee in the 2006 primary so that GOP voters don’t have to vote for a Democrat in November 2006. (Chaffee voted against the war, against the president’s reelection, and now for the filibuster. Chaffee’s presence was necessary with a Senate closely divided, but with a healthy majority, he should be booted before seniority puts him in a position to do real damage. Even big tent Republicans like me believe every tent needs an inside and an outside, and Chaffee’s way outside.)”
A very well-known reporter whose poltics are conventionally liberal told me a couple of years ago that right after 9/11, he asked for Sen. Chafee’s reaction to the attack. Chafee wouldn’t answer him because he hadn’t yet determined what OTHERS would say. Needless to say this honorable liberal was offended.
The vote against Owen was the last straw. Chafee needs to go.