Chafing from The Wingnuts

by digby

It seems as if I spent half my life listening to smug, arrogant former Democrats drone on and on about how they didn’t leave the party, the party left them. It’s nice to see the shoe on the other foot:

Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he has left the Republican Party because the national GOP has drifted too far from him on critical issues, including the war in Iraq, the economy and the environment.

“It’s not my party anymore,” Chafee, who represented Rhode Island from 1999 until 2007, told The Providence Journal in an article published Saturday

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I can’t say that I’m sorry Chafee didn’t make the switch earlier. His replacement Whitehouse is a far, far better Senator than he ever was. Still, it’s good he finally saw the light. He hasn’t been welcome in the GOP since 1994. I don’t know why he stuck with them for as long as he did.

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