Lincoln Chafee needs our help . . . seriously

[as seen on tv]

http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/national-politics/7/72/1237431/lincoln-chafee-horrible-instagram/

The former Rhode Island governor, former Republican, former unknown politician is running for leader of the free world. Well, he’s still an unknown politician, it turns out. Lincoln Chafee has 47 instagram followers. Seriously. But that was before he announced his candidacy. Perhaps he has doubled that by now.

I have to confess, I don’t follow ANYONE on instragram. I haven’t friended any politicians on facebook. And I don’t subscribe to Hillary’s twitter feed (“Questions about my dictator donations are a vast right wing conspiracy. And so what if I’m older than dirt?”)

But back to Lincoln Chafee. Please sign up and follow him in social media. Even if you’d never dream of voting for him. He needs to gain traction (fast) or we’re going to be stuck with democrat primaries pitting the socialist against the $100 million woman who can’t say how she came by this fortune, after leaving the White House “dirt poor”.

What does Lincoln Chafee stand for? Here are the top 10 things I’ve been able to learn so far:

10 – He did not clean up Rhode Island, and turn it into a mafia free zone. He’s not a judgemental kind of guy. Let sleeping dogs lie, apparently. (Cuomo, you actually score a point here, if you’re paying attention, as former NY attorney general, and sitting governor. And nice "prison crawl" yesterday, by the way . . . )

9 – Chafee believes the biggest problem with our public schools is that the don’t teach the metric system. Seriously – read the link below. But this is probably because teachers don’t understand the metric system themselves. Linc – if there’s hard data connecting the English system of weights and measurements to the school dropout rate, functional illiteracy, and drug use, we’re dying to see it. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/04/politics/lincoln-chafee-metric-system/

8 – Lincoln is running on his vast experience as Rhode Island’s governor. All four years. He was elected to this first term with a 36% plurality of the vote, defeating a Democrat, a Republican, and a 4th party candidate (Linc was the 3rd party candidate.) How can you win with 36% of the vote? It’s barely 1/3rd.

7 – Before running for Governor, Lincoln was appointed to the US Senate to complete dad’s term office, after he died in office. Really. He’s from the ruling class. If we have to get stuck with another one of those, why is Linc any better than JEB, Al Gore, Cuomo, Jerry Brown, Mitt Romney . . . ? Oh, and his great, great grandfather was a governor; his great, great uncle was a senator, and various other cousins etc are prominent politicians. Yes, Rhode Island is a small place, and he was born into the ruling class.

6 – Governor Chafee opposed drilling for oil in Alaska, evidently believing it was safer to drill in the Gulf of Mexico where 100 million people work, get their food, vacation, etc.

5 – Lincoln believes a top income tax rate of 39.6% rate upper middle class households is a great idea

4 – Chafee attended the tony private boarding school “Exeter”, then Brown University. After that, he grew bored and attended the University of Montana Horse-shoeing program (this is true – google it). He worked as a “farrier” (horse shoe guy) at various racetracks for a number of years, while living off his trust fund. This is arguably worse than JEB taking 10 years off to go tarpon fishing in Florida.

3 – Chafee believes the job of containing ISIS and dealing with a nuclear armed Iran are problems that should be handled by “regional players” – presumably a nuclear armed Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and whoever ends up in control of Iraq and Syria . . .

2 – Miscellaneous – Pro voter ID. Pro legalization of pot. Pro gun control. Pro abortion. Pro higher taxes. Pro gay marriage. Pro expanded/undocumented immigration from Latin America.

1 – Chafee decided not to run for re-election as Govenor in 2014, after polls showed him to be wildly unpopular, and trailing both mainstream candidates. He announced that he would probably seek the white house instead. Again - really. This guy is completely disconnected from reality.

 

[bdtex]

http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/national-politics/7/72/1237431/lincoln-chafee-horrible-instagram/

The former Rhode Island governor, former Republican, former unknown politician is running for leader of the free world. Well, he’s still an unknown politician, it turns out. Lincoln Chafee has 47 instagram followers. Seriously. But that was before he announced his candidacy. Perhaps he has doubled that by now.

I have to confess, I don’t follow ANYONE on instragram. I haven’t friended any politicians on facebook. And I don’t subscribe to Hillary’s twitter feed (“Questions about my dictator donations are a vast right wing conspiracy. And so what if I’m older than dirt?”)

But back to Lincoln Chafee. Please sign up and follow him in social media. Even if you’d never dream of voting for him. He needs to gain traction (fast) or we’re going to be stuck with democrat primaries pitting the socialist against the $100 million woman who can’t say how she came by this fortune, after leaving the White House “dirt poor”.

What does Lincoln Chafee stand for? Here are the top 10 things I’ve been able to learn so far:

10 – He did not clean up Rhode Island, and turn it into a mafia free zone. He’s not a judgemental kind of guy. Let sleeping dogs lie, apparently. (Cuomo, you actually score a point here, if you’re paying attention, as former NY attorney general, and sitting governor. And nice "prison crawl" yesterday, by the way . . . )

9 – Chafee believes the biggest problem with our public schools is that the don’t teach the metric system. Seriously – read the link below. But this is probably because teachers don’t understand the metric system themselves. Linc – if there’s hard data connecting the English system of weights and measurements to the school dropout rate, functional illiteracy, and drug use, we’re dying to see it. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/04/politics/lincoln-chafee-metric-system/

8 – Lincoln is running on his vast experience as Rhode Island’s governor. All four years. He was elected to this first term with a 36% plurality of the vote, defeating a Democrat, a Republican, and a 4th party candidate (Linc was the 3rd party candidate.) How can you win with 36% of the vote? It’s barely 1/3rd.

7 – Before running for Governor, Lincoln was appointed to the US Senate to complete dad’s term office, after he died in office. Really. He’s from the ruling class. If we have to get stuck with another one of those, why is Linc any better than JEB, Al Gore, Cuomo, Jerry Brown, Mitt Romney . . . ? Oh, and his great, great grandfather was a governor; his great, great uncle was a senator, and various other cousins etc are prominent politicians. Yes, Rhode Island is a small place, and he was born into the ruling class.

6 – Governor Chafee opposed drilling for oil in Alaska, evidently believing it was safer to drill in the Gulf of Mexico where 100 million people work, get their food, vacation, etc.

5 – Lincoln believes a top income tax rate of 39.6% rate upper middle class households is a great idea

4 – Chafee attended the tony private boarding school “Exeter”, then Brown University. After that, he grew bored and attended the University of Montana Horse-shoeing program (this is true – google it). He worked as a “farrier” (horse shoe guy) at various racetracks for a number of years, while living off his trust fund. This is arguably worse than JEB taking 10 years off to go tarpon fishing in Florida.

3 – Chafee believes the job of containing ISIS and dealing with a nuclear armed Iran are problems that should be handled by “regional players” – presumably a nuclear armed Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and whoever ends up in control of Iraq and Syria . . .

2 – Miscellaneous – Pro voter ID. Pro legalization of pot. Pro gun control. Pro abortion. Pro higher taxes. Pro gay marriage. Pro expanded/undocumented immigration from Latin America.

1 – Chafee decided not to run for re-election as Govenor in 2014, after polls showed him to be wildly unpopular, and trailing both mainstream candidates. He announced that he would probably seek the white house instead. Again - really. This guy is completely disconnected from reality.

I'm not sure why he switched to the Democratic Party. He was a liberal New England Republican. As you pointed out,he's never run as a Democrat before and the first time he does so,it's for POTUS? I had a lot more respect for him as a Republican.

 

[Barbella]

http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/national-politics/7/72/1237431/lincoln-chafee-horrible-instagram/

The former Rhode Island governor, former Republican, former unknown politician is running for leader of the free world. Well, he’s still an unknown politician, it turns out. Lincoln Chafee has 47 instagram followers. Seriously. But that was before he announced his candidacy. Perhaps he has doubled that by now.

I have to confess, I don’t follow ANYONE on instragram. I haven’t friended any politicians on facebook. And I don’t subscribe to Hillary’s twitter feed (“Questions about my dictator donations are a vast right wing conspiracy. And so what if I’m older than dirt?”)

But back to Lincoln Chafee. Please sign up and follow him in social media. Even if you’d never dream of voting for him. He needs to gain traction (fast) or we’re going to be stuck with democrat primaries pitting the socialist against the $100 million woman who can’t say how she came by this fortune, after leaving the White House “dirt poor”.

What does Lincoln Chafee stand for? Here are the top 10 things I’ve been able to learn so far:

10 – He did not clean up Rhode Island, and turn it into a mafia free zone. He’s not a judgemental kind of guy. Let sleeping dogs lie, apparently. (Cuomo, you actually score a point here, if you’re paying attention, as former NY attorney general, and sitting governor. And nice "prison crawl" yesterday, by the way . . . )

9 – Chafee believes the biggest problem with our public schools is that the don’t teach the metric system. Seriously – read the link below. But this is probably because teachers don’t understand the metric system themselves. Linc – if there’s hard data connecting the English system of weights and measurements to the school dropout rate, functional illiteracy, and drug use, we’re dying to see it. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/04/politics/lincoln-chafee-metric-system/

8 – Lincoln is running on his vast experience as Rhode Island’s governor. All four years. He was elected to this first term with a 36% plurality of the vote, defeating a Democrat, a Republican, and a 4th party candidate (Linc was the 3rd party candidate.) How can you win with 36% of the vote? It’s barely 1/3rd.

7 – Before running for Governor, Lincoln was appointed to the US Senate to complete dad’s term office, after he died in office. Really. He’s from the ruling class. If we have to get stuck with another one of those, why is Linc any better than JEB, Al Gore, Cuomo, Jerry Brown, Mitt Romney . . . ? Oh, and his great, great grandfather was a governor; his great, great uncle was a senator, and various other cousins etc are prominent politicians. Yes, Rhode Island is a small place, and he was born into the ruling class.

6 – Governor Chafee opposed drilling for oil in Alaska, evidently believing it was safer to drill in the Gulf of Mexico where 100 million people work, get their food, vacation, etc.

5 – Lincoln believes a top income tax rate of 39.6% rate upper middle class households is a great idea

4 – Chafee attended the tony private boarding school “Exeter”, then Brown University. After that, he grew bored and attended the University of Montana Horse-shoeing program (this is true – google it). He worked as a “farrier” (horse shoe guy) at various racetracks for a number of years, while living off his trust fund. This is arguably worse than JEB taking 10 years off to go tarpon fishing in Florida.

3 – Chafee believes the job of containing ISIS and dealing with a nuclear armed Iran are problems that should be handled by “regional players” – presumably a nuclear armed Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and whoever ends up in control of Iraq and Syria . . .

2 – Miscellaneous – Pro voter ID. Pro legalization of pot. Pro gun control. Pro abortion. Pro higher taxes. Pro gay marriage. Pro expanded/undocumented immigration from Latin America.

1 – Chafee decided not to run for re-election as Govenor in 2014, after polls showed him to be wildly unpopular, and trailing both mainstream candidates. He announced that he would probably seek the white house instead. Again - really. This guy is completely disconnected from reality.

He definitely needs a new "do". His hair is ummm.... no. A big no.

 

[marvin martian]

http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/national-politics/7/72/1237431/lincoln-chafee-horrible-instagram/

The former Rhode Island governor, former Republican, former unknown politician is running for leader of the free world. Well, he’s still an unknown politician, it turns out. Lincoln Chafee has 47 instagram followers. Seriously. But that was before he announced his candidacy. Perhaps he has doubled that by now.

I have to confess, I don’t follow ANYONE on instragram. I haven’t friended any politicians on facebook. And I don’t subscribe to Hillary’s twitter feed (“Questions about my dictator donations are a vast right wing conspiracy. And so what if I’m older than dirt?”)

But back to Lincoln Chafee. Please sign up and follow him in social media. Even if you’d never dream of voting for him. He needs to gain traction (fast) or we’re going to be stuck with democrat primaries pitting the socialist against the $100 million woman who can’t say how she came by this fortune, after leaving the White House “dirt poor”.

What does Lincoln Chafee stand for? Here are the top 10 things I’ve been able to learn so far:

10 – He did not clean up Rhode Island, and turn it into a mafia free zone. He’s not a judgemental kind of guy. Let sleeping dogs lie, apparently. (Cuomo, you actually score a point here, if you’re paying attention, as former NY attorney general, and sitting governor. And nice "prison crawl" yesterday, by the way . . . )

9 – Chafee believes the biggest problem with our public schools is that the don’t teach the metric system. Seriously – read the link below. But this is probably because teachers don’t understand the metric system themselves. Linc – if there’s hard data connecting the English system of weights and measurements to the school dropout rate, functional illiteracy, and drug use, we’re dying to see it. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/04/politics/lincoln-chafee-metric-system/

8 – Lincoln is running on his vast experience as Rhode Island’s governor. All four years. He was elected to this first term with a 36% plurality of the vote, defeating a Democrat, a Republican, and a 4th party candidate (Linc was the 3rd party candidate.) How can you win with 36% of the vote? It’s barely 1/3rd.

7 – Before running for Governor, Lincoln was appointed to the US Senate to complete dad’s term office, after he died in office. Really. He’s from the ruling class. If we have to get stuck with another one of those, why is Linc any better than JEB, Al Gore, Cuomo, Jerry Brown, Mitt Romney . . . ? Oh, and his great, great grandfather was a governor; his great, great uncle was a senator, and various other cousins etc are prominent politicians. Yes, Rhode Island is a small place, and he was born into the ruling class.

6 – Governor Chafee opposed drilling for oil in Alaska, evidently believing it was safer to drill in the Gulf of Mexico where 100 million people work, get their food, vacation, etc.

5 – Lincoln believes a top income tax rate of 39.6% rate upper middle class households is a great idea

4 – Chafee attended the tony private boarding school “Exeter”, then Brown University. After that, he grew bored and attended the University of Montana Horse-shoeing program (this is true – google it). He worked as a “farrier” (horse shoe guy) at various racetracks for a number of years, while living off his trust fund. This is arguably worse than JEB taking 10 years off to go tarpon fishing in Florida.

3 – Chafee believes the job of containing ISIS and dealing with a nuclear armed Iran are problems that should be handled by “regional players” – presumably a nuclear armed Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and whoever ends up in control of Iraq and Syria . . .

2 – Miscellaneous – Pro voter ID. Pro legalization of pot. Pro gun control. Pro abortion. Pro higher taxes. Pro gay marriage. Pro expanded/undocumented immigration from Latin America.

1 – Chafee decided not to run for re-election as Govenor in 2014, after polls showed him to be wildly unpopular, and trailing both mainstream candidates. He announced that he would probably seek the white house instead. Again - really. This guy is completely disconnected from reality.

Great post. He has no chance. The fundamentalist progreSSive wing of the Democrat party will never, ever let a former Republican represent their party in the White House. The Republicans were willing to elect a former Democrat in Ronald Reagan (to great success), but they were a far, far more tolerant bunch than the crop of anti-civil rights zealots who run the Dems today.

 

[as seen on tv]

I'm not sure why he switched to the Democratic Party. He was a liberal New England Republican. As you pointed out,he's never run as a Democrat before and the first time he does so,it's for POTUS? I had a lot more respect for him as a Republican.

you have to credit him for NOT running as a republican, since there are already 16 presidential contenders in that party

bernie should run as a socialist, since that the party affiliation he labels himself as. shouldn't you have to be an actual registered party member to run for president under that party's banner?

usually the democrats have a plethora of oddball candidates: lyndon larouch; ralph nader; al sharpton; dennis kucinich; jesse jackson . . .

this year its the republicans

 

[as seen on tv]

Great post. He has no chance. The fundamentalist progreSSive wing of the Democrat party will never, ever let a former Republican represent their party in the White House. The Republicans were willing to elect a former Democrat in Ronald Reagan (to great success), but they were a far, far more tolerant bunch than the crop of anti-civil rights zealots who run the Dems today.

well - thats what primaries are for. to see where the heart and soul of the party lie.

traditionally, mostly single issue extremists get worked up over primaries, forcing democrats to the left, and republicans to the right.

then, in the general election both party nominees tell us "forget what i said 6 months ago. that was then. this is now. i will unite all americans of every race, creed and color, and we will live happy ever after."

i read an interesting article a few days ago. it asserted - quite plausibly - that although there were "reagan democrats" who swept him into office, it appears unlikely that Hillary will create "hillary republicans" with her campaign positions. to a centrist democrat like chafee, that may provide encouragement that there could be "chafee republicans" voting democratic.

the problem with that logic is, reagan had an actual portfolio of achievements. chafee does not. he's an unknown, because he never did anything important.

i continue to believe someone "real" like cuomo will arise to challenge hillary. the more i read about omalley, the more its clear he's like chafee. If you take away the guitar and muscle tees, he's just a guy who never actually helped his state.

cuomo. possibly jerry brown, who has shown unexpected resliance and compromise in negotiating California's debt crisis. the list of democrat governors stops there, because their bench is weak - 18 dem governors vs 31 gop. that's possibly why so many republicans think they can be president.

has anyone ever vaulted from the house of representatives to the white house? apparently not. that leaves democrat senators to challenge hillary, if cuomo and brown sit it out. Durbin? Schumer? the democrat senatorial bench is thin, too.

democrats need a trump, for comic effect. how about Al Franken?

no wonder hillary feels invincible. omalley can't win running on her left. neither could warren for that matter. chafee can't win from her right.

cuomo and brown won't enter the race unless told to do so by party big shots because Hillary has lost the nation's trust. no wonder hillary feels invincible.

she's picking her new hairstyle, right now