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.
Who?
This might be the first time most people heard he was running.
I was aware Missing Linc was running .. I didn’t see it as anything other than an attempt to fluff his retirement (erm, war chest) ..
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Mew
So the metric system wasn’t a winning strategy this year?
He must have seen the SNL skit.