I guess I am glad that Lincoln Chafee is running for president. I don’t think that he’ll get much traction, but it will be interesting to hear what he has to say and he’ll attract some small subsection of the electorate. He’s a good guy. In some alternate universe, he might even make a good candidate for the office. But that would be a universe quite a bit more pure than the one we live in.
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It’s ironic and sad that what this country needs and deserves is honest, hard-working politicians and they’re unable to raise money and get traction to become viable candidates. And there are probably hundreds more decent, intelligent people out there who would do anything to be working in politics, but won’t put themselves in the position for biased scrutiny, constant pressure, and flat-out hatred by our ridiculous population.
I wouldn’t do it, either. I applaud those who do.
Really good points. Chafee was the kind of Republican we don’t see anymore. Someone with integrity who could team with those across the aisle with good ideas. As Booman says, in a sane world a guy like this would get traction. In a sane world, a liberal Democrat like me would support him over Hillary Clinton. But it’s not a sane world and he’s very unlikely to get out of the gate so I’m resigned to Hillary. Given the real alternatives, I will support her with time and money. But it’s not with the kind of eagerness I’d feel for someone with more vision and integrity.
Yep, that hits most of the points for why I flat refuse to run for an office higher than the one I currently occupy as a county board supervisor. The other part of course is that I have an active career outside politics that would take a severe hit.
I saw him on Bill Maher. He struck me as a garden variety idiot.
Got to agree with this.
I did not see him on Maher. I saw him in action with the committee charged with dealing on John Bolton’s appointment to the UN.
Whatever the absolute opposite of leadership is, he was the personification of it.
He’s still alive?
I see he’s running as a Democrat. I’m thinking his bid and O’Malley’s are a ploy by the 1% to weaken Sanders and insure the Permagov (tm by AG) candidate, HRC’s victory.
Well, that splits the O’Malley vote.
hopefully not for long
interesting that he’s running as a Democrat since isn’t he a lifelong Republican?
Unless you think it is 2007.
I vaguely remember him turning to an independent when he was Governor, but when did he become a Democrat?
A good guy for sure and likable if soft personality, but I wish he’d shown a little more courage by getting out of the Repub Pty long ago, as Sen Jeffers did. I think he said he held back because of a long tradition in his family of GOP affiliation (e.g. his father).
His entry makes all 3 of Hillary’s opponents at least center-left and all with appeal almost exclusively with the white, liberal, college-educated middle class sector of the party and virtually no other Dem groups. So Appleyard will be splitting that vote with Walter and Bernie, and getting not much of a share at that.
Meanwhile it all just highlights Hillary’s already-established broad-based party appeal. And it means another non-weird and non-Lieberman entrant on the debate stage with her — so far so good.