Can we trade Lincoln Chafee (RINO) for Zell Miller (DINO)?

[NYCGirl]

Chafee says he cannot cast a vote for Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/04/politics/04chafee.html?oref=login&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 - One day after the Supreme Court sealed the 2000 election for George W. Bush, his running mate, Dick Cheney, went to the Capitol for a private lunch with five moderate Republican senators. The agenda he laid out that day in December 2000 stunned Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, sending Mr. Chafee on a painful journey of political conscience that, he said in an interview last week, has culminated with his decision not to vote for Mr. Bush in November.

"I literally was close to falling off my chair," Mr. Chafee said, recounting the vice president's proposals for steep tax cuts, missile defense programs and abandoning the Kyoto environmental accords. "It was no room for discussion. I said, 'Well, you're going to need us; it's a 50-50 Senate, you're going to need us moderates.' He said, 'Well, we need everybody.' ''

For Mr. Chafee, who was a prep school buddy of the president's brother Jeb and whose father, the late Senator John Chafee, was close to the first President Bush, that day was the beginning of an estrangement with the president, whom he had worked to elect. In the months since, he has opposed Mr. Bush on everything from tax cuts to gay marriage and the war in Iraq. Now, this life-long Republican has concluded that he cannot cast his ballot for the leader of his party.

[Lord_StarFyre]

1. Thankfully

Zell is leaving. Hopefully now he will begin his short journey into abject obscurity.

Once Dumbya is defeated (by Landslide) the best thing that Zell can hope for is that no one recognizes his traitorous ass while he's strolling around those streets offering Presidental grade handjobs for Food

[flordehinojos]

2. Mr. Chafee doesn't want GWB in office and will write in a Republican in

his voting ballot November 2nd. Mr. Chafee's intentions are honorable but if he were REALLY SERIOUS about not wanting GWB in office, he would vote for John Kerry. He knows that a vote for Ralph Nader, or for any write-ins, is a vote for GWB... now that would be real integrity and that would take whatever sense of betraying his party away ... because doing the right thing for the country weighs more than the right thing for the party. :)

[Dob Bole]

3. Lincoln Chafee has balls...

Most Democrats supported the Iraq war because of political considerations. Yet here you have a guy who voted against it, and is in the REPUBLICAN party!

[9119495]

5. And he just may switch. If

bush wins and the senate is 50-50 with Dick as the tie, we'd need this guy to switch.

[aden_nak]

4. I'd trade Zell Miller for crabs.