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Lincoln Chafee has dropped out of the Presidential race.

Expect a lot of vicious mockery from the Right-sphere on this one. Why? …Because elephants never forget.

And they never forgive. There are still people still nursing a grievance over the 2006 Senate election. More accurately, they are nursing a grievance on how classless Chafee was towards the very party* that went to the wall for him. And some of those people happen to have social media presences today…

Moe Lane

*Some even think that Chafee was particularly graceless towards the party apparatus, and that’s not a nice thing to do.  Yes, even when it’s the Republican party apparatus. They might have deserved it, but it doesn’t mean Chafee was justified in doing it to them.

Oh, hey, Lincoln Chafee is running for President.

I missed the announcement (I’m still sick, after all): what party is he running under? Democrat, right? – I mean, you’d assume so, only Chafee is so gormless in that regard that there’s always the faint chance that he might have decided to pick, I don’t know, United Future. And yes, I know, that’s New Zealand.  Lincoln Chafee, remember? This is not a fundamentally reliable man that we’re talking about here.

Democrats: Save us, Lincoln Chafee, you’re ou… no, they’d probably prefer even Martin O’Malley.

Lincoln Chafee is the sort of candidate that runs when your party’s basic electoral strategy can be best described as ‘YOLO.’

(Via The Campaign Spot) How seriously should you take this Q-poll showing Hillary Clinton faring badly in battleground states?

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s lead is wilting against leading Republican presidential candidates in three critical swing states, Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, and she finds herself in a close race with U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky in each state, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today. In head-to-head matchups, every Republican candidate effectively ties her in Colorado and almost all Republicans effectively tie her in Iowa.

…This seriously.

Former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee on Thursday announced he will launch a presidential exploratory committee, a surprising move for the Democratic nomination by a veteran public servant who was not previously considered a potential contender… And he’s already indicated that hitting Hillary Clinton on her vote for the Iraq War — which he opposed — will be central to his rationale for running, introducing a foreign policy foil to Clinton’s cast of potential rivals.

Continue reading Democrats: Save us, Lincoln Chafee, you’re ou… no, they’d probably prefer even Martin O’Malley.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee (D) cuts and runs.

And so the cycle is complete.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee isn’t running for a second term, he said Wednesday in an announcement that surprised his political opponents and closest advisers alike and takes him out of what was expected to be a fierce primary in his new Democratic Party.

The governor, who became a Democrat in May, has struggled with poor approval ratings and is a reluctant fundraiser, who faced a strong field of challengers in next year’s race.

From Republican Senator to ‘Independent’ governor to Democratic has-been.  Have a nice life, Chafee. Continue reading Gov. Lincoln Chafee (D) cuts and runs.

Frank Caprio (D CAND, RI-GOV), racist.

Well… if by ‘racist’ you mean ‘insufficiently respectful towards the President,’ which I understand is how the Democrats define the term these days.  Caprio is a little upset that President Obama isn’t endorsing him in what is turning out to be a very close gubernatorial election between him and ‘independent’ Lincoln Chafee.  So in classic sour-grapes fashion Caprio has decided that he doesn’t want Obama’s help, after all: “[Obama] can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I am concerned.”

…which is, of course, utter nonsense: the race is currently in free-fall, and the Democrat needs all the help that he can get.  Caprio’s problem is that the President would rather have a reliable ‘independent’ in RI to burnish the President’s ‘centrist’ street credit in 2012; and Chafee’s certainly more reliably Obama’s creature than he ever was a reliable Republican.  Actually, Caprio has two problems: the second is that Obama’s traveling to Rhode Island to fundraise for the DCCC (and maybe try to keep John Loughlin from taking RI-01)… and in the house of a Chafee supporter, no less.

I’d be sympathetic, except that Caprio’s a Democratic politician, so I don’t feel like it.  Still: regretting those Clinton connections yet, Frank?

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: John Robitaille is the Republican nominee in this race, and he could use your help.  And it’s surprising that more national-level Chafee-loathers aren’t helping out John, here…