Lincoln Chafee: "There are two John McCains"
By SilentPatriot Tuesday May 20, 2008 7:00pm
On FOX News Tuesday, former Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee made clear what many of us have been arguing for some time now: That Senator John McCain bears no resemblance to the current presumptive Republican nominee.
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There’s one that was my colleague in the Senate that was good on the environment, that voted with me, the only other Republican to vote against the tax cuts, and had the Gang of 14. And now there’s the senator McCain that’s running for the Republican nomination. It’s almost like two people, kow-towing to the Republican base. It’s a different John McCain, hearing the rhetoric I hear now. Make the tax cuts permanent and distancing himself from his environmental record. And being a different candidate, and talking as he is now about how we need to not engage anybody on the world. …
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The Many Faces of McCain
And we are going to beat both of them in November.
Republican? Doesnt the screen say (I) as in "Independant"?
at least cavuto is consistent like all members of the media...no follow up. of course how can you dispute the indisputable?
Chafee is cool. I am glad he lost, however, because Whitehouse has been heroic.
Chaffee is one Republican (now former) that I actually don't want to smack in the face. Is that good or bad?
This is a McCain who never thought he would have another chance to be president of the United States. Now, for whatever the hell reason, he has that chance and he is so desperate to be elected he will spin in circles and say any damned thing he thinks is a good idea at the moment. This is an elderly gentleman trying his best to act and sound like he is hip to everything and knows everything. I think he would deny knowing his own mom if he thought he could get fifty votes as a result.
Kevin @ 5:
I was just watching Whitehouse on the floor of the senate. He's a jewel. I first paid attention to him when the storm arose about the firing of the US attorneys. Since he had been one at one time, he spoke with authority on the subject and he was excellent.
Nice to see a Republican with the ability to call a spade a spade.
Listen, as a Rhode Islander who voted for Sheldon Whitehouse, I can tell you that there are at least TWO Lincoln Chaffees. The guy is intelligent, probably really nice too, but he's all over the place politically. It's like he wants to appeal to everyone, and unfortunately that's just not possible in politics of the 21st century.
Whitehouse is doing well so far, and makes a good showing for my lil' state. Chaffee shouldn't be analyzing anyone though - he needs some analysis of his own with a professional.
MaudeLebowski @ 6:
Good. This isn't 'Nam. There are rules.
DaveTheAngryRhodeIslander @ 10:
No wonder they used to be good friends.
McCain mouths the words but the thoughts are all KKKarl Rove.
What people don't realize is that some months back John McCain spent a night at the bush ranch. Someone placed a large seed pod in the room McSame was going to be sleeping in.
Ever since that night, John has been acting like bush and drooling the NeoCon/PNAC words over and over.
THERE HERE !!!
So who is the real John McCain??? How can anyone trust him???
Spicegal @ 15:
We can't trust him, he's become a pod-person. Reprogrammed.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 16:
You have just insulted pod-people everywhere.
Flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip flop flip...
Or as one person here corrected me once... LIAR.
He sold his soul to the reptiles
Well even bush was smarter than McCain. Bush played the part of the "uniter not the divider" until he got into office. McCain has already blown his own cover and he hasn't even been elected yet.
Lincoln Chafee: “There are two John McCains”
I got one word for Lincoln Chafee
Talcom powder
Okay two words.
Two faces of John McCain...
Bullshit.
There's only one John McCain, but many fools who were taken in by con.
TWO JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAINS......AND I DON'T LIKE EITHER OF THEM.....
DO THEY HAVE TO SPLIT THE VOTE ? ? ?
In order to run for president, McCain sold his soul to the devil (neocons) and now he is required to do the devil's (neocon's) work.
What I'm beginning to notice is that a lot of republicans are afraid of McCain, because I think they beleive he really does have PSTD and is entering the first stage of Alzheimer, these are just fact, if McCain has nothing to hide then he should release his medical records and put all this talk about PSTD and Alzheimer behind him.
It's haarrd woorrrk bein' preznit. Ya got to do what they tell ya or there's no tellin' what they will do.
My friends, the only way to pay for permanent occupation of half the planet, is to cut taxes, my friends. It is a simple fact of economics, which is something I've never been all that good at, my friends
He sold out in 2004 for Bush, even after he witnessed a Smear Boating of Kerry any decent human and fellow veteran would find disgusting. He likely did but thinking ahead to 085 he slinked behind Boy Wonder in a flight suit and sat on the bench.
McCain the flip flop king is scary bad, considering a man such as this would need lessons on how to deal with whats going on in the world of international diplomacy, as in which nations we joke about bombing and which nations we have to bomb to kill the terra-ris
This smells fishy. I asked myself, what's Chafee doing on Fox? And why is the Fox guy being civil to Chafee whom Republicans loathe? And why does Chafee seem to be gratuitously betraying his old colleague McCain? Maybe he's there to "condemn" McCain for being very conservative, which is exactly how McCain wants the Fox mouth-breathers to perceive him. Maybe Chafee's criticism was exploited (staged?) as a kind or reverse endorsement to make the conservative doubters think again about McCain.
"There’s one that was my colleague in the Senate that was good on the environment..."
Republican presidential candidate John McCain got a score of zero from the League of Conservation Voters for his voting record on environmental issues in Congress in 2007 -- not because he voted against environmental protections, but because he simply didn't show up to vote. - source: grist.org.
Yeah, he's really dedicated to the environment...
John McCain sez: "Why do they always have votes on the environment when it's Prune Day in the Senate dining room?"
I notice that FOX cut that interview very short. I suspect if he was praising John Boy and adding a few Obama smears, it would have gone on much longer.
I've always liked Lincoln Chaffee. Always
If politicians were baseball players, I would release Lieberman and call up Chafee.
I watched Lincoln Chaffee on Book Talk a couple weeks ago talking about politics. I really wish someone in the Democratic Leadership had approached him at the time Jim Jeffords was getting ready to switch parties to Independent from Rethug. Chaffee almost came right out and said that if someone had - he would probably have switched and announced his intention to caucus with the Dems. Then Reid could kick LIEberman to the curb and we'd be done with that slimeball.
Chaffee is one of those old moderate Republicans, the ones the neo-cons call RINOs and actively try to get them to leave the party. The Dems missed an opportunity there. He might have even gone all the way to Dem if someone had approached him.
When I watched Former Senator Lincoln Chaffee during the John Bolton nomination hearings my respect for this man grew. Chaffee voted against the invasion of Iraq. He is a man of integrity, honor , conscience and soul.
THANK YOU SENATOR CHAFFEE for rising above partisan politics!
It's not a different John McCain. He's the same one who dumped his wife and married for money; lots o'money. He's the same one who embraced and sniffed George Bush just a few short years after GWB screwed him in 2000. He's the same McCain - same as Bush - tryin' to be just like his Daddy. Didn't make it to Admiral so he has to be Pres. to make himself feel "worthy" in his own small mind.
The neo-con guys are just taking advantage of another idiot sociopath with Daddy issues. A couple months ago, Cheney et al took John into a dark room somewhere
and told him they'd make his dreams come true - as long as he became "Dubya revisited." Then they patted him on the head, threatened Romney, and Fuckabee, and the other Repug guys and the rest is history.
McCain (Bush/Cheney) for President!! Ha.
No, there's only one McCain, but he's got enough age for two.
I respectfully beg to differ. I believe there are no John McCains, or rather, that "John McCain" is a fictional character whose words, ideas, and policies are improvised on the spur of the moment, to fit whatever audience or whim the actor hired to play "John McCain" happens to have.
Every time I see Lincoln Chafee, I just shake my head and think, "If only you'd done the right thing and switched parties, you'd still have your Senate seat." The only reason he lost in 2006 was because he was a Republican.
Not that I'm complaining. As said above, Whitehouse has been terrific, especially during the U.S. attorney mess.
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