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Debbie is high-fiving this morning for sure. Not only is another one down, but now thereās zero chance Lessig gets on stage next debate. OāMalley will start to feel the heat in mid-November.
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Aw, Link! We hardly knew ye.
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The metric system is the true loser Oh, the hughmanatee!
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Zeppo has left The Marx Brothersā¦
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Who?
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Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee ended his long-shit bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday.
ā¦more typos like this one please.
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Lincoln Chafee was running for President?? Now you tell meā¦
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Heās seems like a nice and decent guy and a good public servant. He was never going to have a following in the Democratic Party. But I would think he would certainly be welcome in the next administration as an ambassador or something elseā¦
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Who ?
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So hereās the difference. The Democratsā super-longshots were people like Lincoln Chaffee and Jim Webb and, I guess, Larry Lessig. More or less obscure political figures who no one gave much of a chance.
The Republicansā super longshots, however, are people like Jeb Bush and Scott Walker and Frothy Santorum, who, I guess is still running while the front runners are people like Trump and Carson.
At this point, Iām really wondering whether the Republicans even qualify to be called a political party anymore.
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I think this is true for Webb and Chafee. The HRC boosters around here have had nothing nice to say about either Webb or Chafee - and these are exactly the people we on āthe leftā should be welcoming as they abandon the crazy GOP.
There was never any need to get nasty about Chafee or Webb - they never posed any kind of real threat. Either of them would be excellent in the administration.
I have always figured Webb and Chafee were running for VP anyway, but I think OāMalley belongs there. Heās running for the top slot in the next open cycle anyway.
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Iāve always been leery of Webb because he really seemed less than serious about politics. He was, after all, a one term Senator who then left politics. Overall, heās a nice guy, but that kind of political record makes me a bit uneasy.
I honestly believe OāMalley should try to run for Senate. He needs to raise his profile before running for President again.
Chafeeā¦he needed to kind of do the same and spend more time in the Democratic Party or at least on the national stage talking about the issues heās passionate about.
As for Lessingā¦he really should just give up the ghost. No one will ever take him seriously after he announced he was going to resign the moment he became President and the others are already talking about campaign finance reform.
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Well hell! There goes the Demometric Party chances. ~rimshot!~
http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/chafee.jpg
On the other hand, Chafee did reveal he lost his Facebook password and knows how to shoe a horse! Wellā¦there is that. Makes him more āhumanā?? No?
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(*Sorry, but he always reminded me of that FOX stooge āSteve Doucheyāā ___and I couldnāt get that image outtaā my head.)
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Politics being what it is, this will generate more headlines than everything else about the Chafee campaign did.
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Sure, Iāll agree with Webb. All I saw is people making fun of Chafee because he sucked really really.
Yup! After Webbās departure, Chafee picked up enough steam to approach the first plateau of 1% in the polls.
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Sorry. I blinked. Did something happen?
Nooooo! He was doing so wellā¦
Damn, but I wish enough democratic voters would realize that in the midterms though.
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