I am saddened by Chafee loss, and pissed about LiEberman win....

[AlamoDemoc]

[garthranzz]

1. Me, too. Sometimes good people get hurt by association with the very bad

[BattyDem]

2. Chafee is a good guy ... I wish he was a Dem

:-(

[babylonsister]

3. I'm not sad about Chafee's loss. He is a good man, but we need a

Dem there. Period. I wanted Lamont in and am pissed, too.

[durrrty libby]

4. We need all the D's we can get He needs to switch parties

[59millionmorons]

5. me too

nt

[TheDonkey]

6. No tears for Chafee. Should have switched parties and he could have saved his ass

No reason for even caucusing with rethugs if he rarely agreed with them. Whitehoue will be a nice addition.
Lieberman I can live with as long as he caucuses with us and switches parties back.

[AlamoDemoc]

14. I gather you find Holy Joe as alternative as new democrat?

[TheDonkey]

22. I'd rather Lamont but Lieb is a Democrat

and not yet Zell Miller.

[Gman]

7. Chafee was one we hoped would cross over

there's some good ones that will go down from association with Bush.

[SaveElmer]

8. I am not sad when any Republican loses...

As long as they keep the current leadership in power they deserve to lose...no matter how nice a guy!

[still_one]

13. You are right, the stakes are much to high

[still_one]

9. No offense, but it is important that a DEMOCRAT WINS AS MANY RACES

If we have the majority WE SET THE AGENDA

Not happy about Lieberman either, but he has promised he would caucus with the Democrats

[patricia92243]

10. Agreed. Maybe he will think long and hard and come back as a Dem.

[thepurpose]

11. Bush loss this for him. It wasn't Chafee. Still good guy, he just was associated

with an idiot. Rightly on wrongly.

[Sparkly]

12. Sad? I'm thrilled!! nt

[Pithy Cherub]

15. Why didn't he cross over - he would have won.

Alas, he's true to his principles and lost and Traitor Joe wins with republicans. :(

[Lefty48197]

16. To hell with Chafee.

Whitehouse won't put the leadership in the hands of Frist or Trent Lott or any of the other nuts that have run the GOP Senate over the years. Chafee could have teamed up with Jeffords and Snowe years ago and helped check the Republican party's excesses, but the failed to do so. Chafee and Snowe both deserve to be swept out of office.

[bowens43]

17. Not me. Fuck Chafee.

We needed his seat and we kicked his republican ass to the curb. The only good republican is one that has been defeated.

[Arugula Latte]

18. Fuck Chafee. A Repuke is a Bush enabler. Period.

[fujiyama]

19. Screw Chafee

He was a fool that deserved to lose. Why didn't he switch 4 years ago?

Lieberman is a turncoat bastard, but it was an uphill fight all along.

[beaconess]

20. I agree

If we don't need that seat to take control of the Senate, it's a shame that he lost. We need more sane Republicans in both houses.

[The Magistrate]

21. Chafee Had To Go, Sir

If he wanted to stay in the Senate, he should have changed parties. The northeastern 'moderate' Republican must be driven to extinction.

[opihimoimoi]

23. What is the score re chaffee and whitehouse???

[Ninja Jordan]

24. I'm not, he is a roadblock to a Dem Senate majority

[Kahuna]

25. I'm only sad that Chafee didn't have sense enough to switch parties...

He could have and he's still have his job.

[latebloomer]

28. Bill Maher had him on recently

and he was saying that he didn't want to give up being a Republican-- that he saw himself as a true repub, unlike the ones who have taken over the party.

He stood by that principle. But the people of Rhode Island, much as they like him, hate his party, and the war, more.

[Berserker]

26. 21% of precincts in

so hold on.

[newsguyatl]

27. saddened by chafee's loss??? wtf?

[mentalsolstice]

29. It's hard to punish

I have to admit I didn't vote straight Dem today...I voted for 2 repubs in local races...one for county circuit court judge and the other for county sheriff. I've worked with both, and they "get it". I didn't want to punish 2 good people just because they had an "R" beside their name (and I have to add that their opposition was untried or questionable).

From what I've heard about Chaffee, he seemed like a good guy, too bad he played with the bullies on the playground.

[Riverman]

30. A Brahman goes down can only be good for the rest of us!

Chafee was an enabler of the extreme right wing of the Republicans. No Pity for the poor widdle rich boy!