DeWine helps to perpetuate ‘moderate Republican’ scam
2006-09-29
Source: Repository Canton
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rss feedSen. Lincoln Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island, is seeking re-election in his heavily Democratic state by insisting he's not really a Republican, or at least not part of the gang responsible for the decade's debacles. He didn't even vote for George W. Bush in 2004, he protests. He did vote for George H.W. Bush - a kinder, gentler, more prudent, less strident Republican.
Big deal. Chafee's vote was one of roughly 435,000 cast in Rhode Island in the 2004 presidential election and 122 million cast nationwide. The election in which his vote did matter was that for Senate majority leader. There, he was one of just 100 electors in a Senate nearly evenly divided. After this November's elections, control of the Senate may well hang by a single vote.
If Chafee truly wished to alter the course of his party and his country, he would, if re-elected, cast his vote for majority leader when the new Senate convenes for Bob Dole or Howard Baker, former Republican leaders who showed a decent respect for reality and an interest in doing the nation's business.
Rather than support an administration lapdog such as Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, the Republican whip, whom his party will probably put forth to run the Senate, Chafee would vote for some old-school GOP pol. Rather than just announce he's against the war and appalled by torture, he'd vote to put the Senate in the hands of someone with enough gumption and wisdom to stand up to a president hellbent on a war that has lost its purpose and who believes America should torture its prisoners,.
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