Lincoln D. Chafee, who lost his Senate seat in the wave of anti-Republican sentiment in last November’s election, said yesterday that he has left the party.I guess that pretty much sums it up.
Chafee said he disaffiliated with the party he had helped lead, and his father had led before him, because the national Republican Party has gone too far away from his stance on too many critical issues, from war to economics to the environment.
“It’s not my party any more,” he said.
Chaffee is currently serving as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
[H/T to Greg Prince.]
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