Lincoln Chafee Indicates Fundraising Has Trickled to Halt

Chafee: From Chafee’s website: “I believe in common sense adherence to the Second Amendment”. In a rare moment of outright friendliness, Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, shared a laugh and a handshake, after Sanders said Americans were sick of hearing about Clinton’s emails, to thunderous applause. All but one of the candidates mentioned it as part of their opening statements and took fairly aggressive stances on the issue-Senator Webb was the sole exception-and Chafee even said the enemy he was proudest of was the coal lobby.

Chafee fought off a conservative challenger in the 2006 Republican U.S. Senate primary, but was defeated in the fall election by Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, who successfully argued that Chafee’s policy apostasies were less important than his vote for a GOP majority leader. “I even saw in Rhode Island, so I would bring the gun lobby in and say, we’ve got to change this. He does mention it, but very, very fleetingly”, Chafee said. He said he’s made more than 30 visits to New Hampshire since announcing and plans to speak at the state Democratic Party’s upcoming Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.

When pushed to discuss what it would take for him to drop out of the race, Chafee said that he would stay in it “as far as I can continue to raise these issues”.

The fate of the frogs and the office-confined aquarium where they dwelled remains a mystery (although a few indoor frogs can live as long as 21 years), as Chafee did not have the opportunity to discuss his interest in amphibians during the Democratic debate. Why get lots of free advertising and primetime exposure for your own ideas when you can just cede your half of the public dialogue to the people you’re trying to stop instead?

As he closed out what was an unequivocally disastrous night, Chafee reiterated “I have had no scandals”.

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Chafee on Wednesday blamed his poor performance on his limited speaking time. He finally left the GOP in 2007 before serving a single term as Governor of Rhode Island, for which he ran as an independent. “But I do have a budget and I’m living within it”. The Washington Post titled their article, ‘How to disappear completely, by Lincoln Chafee.’ The Boston Globe called it, ‘Lincoln Chafee’s no good, very bad night.’ Here’s what worries me, governor: That because of your distinguished career, you’re going to wind end up looking silly if you keep going on like this.

“At this point he’s probably thinking, ‘I don’t have anything to lose, ‘” Fleming added.

In the meantime, though, Chafee isn’t the only one affected. I’ve always been honest”-a veiled criticism of Clinton and her email fiasco this summer”.