Lincoln Chafee to announce presidential run on June 3

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will officially enter the presidential race on June 3, a source with knowledge of his plans told POLITICO.

He’ll make the announcement in a speech he’s scheduled to deliver next Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the George Mason Center for Politics & Foreign Relations in Arlington, Virginia. Following the announcement, Chafee will travel to New Hampshire on June 4 for a previously scheduled event with local Democrats in Grafton County.

Chafee, who became a Democrat in 2013, has made Hillary Clinton’s support for the invasion of Iraq the chief rationale for his primary challenge to her. As a senator and member of the Republican Party in 2002, Chafee voted against authorizing the war.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/lincoln-chafee-2016-presidential-run-118415.html

[msongs]

1. good for him, the more the merrier nt

[Bucky]

2. I've liked everything I've read about this guy. I like that he's a new Democrat.

I'm sure it's a disqualifyer for most Dems. I don't give him a snowball's chance. But my gut (the same gut that supported Hart in '84, Gore in '88, and Clark in '04, and never ever backs a winner this early in the game) tells me he's the real deal.

[elleng]

5. Gotcha, Bucky, I like him too,

and have a similar 'gut' as you, STILL for Wes Clark, and 'vocally' supporting O'Malley. I'm almost SORRY for the candidates I support!

[kenfrequed]

6. Eh.. hate to disagree

Economically he is actually more conservative than some of the New Dems and Hillary. I do admire his courage in that he voted against the Authorization for use of force in Iraq as a republican, but he still isn't going to get my support.

[CharlotteVale]

10. +1. No politician who wants to privatize SS will ever get my vote.

[hack89]

14. He was my governor for four years - mediocre is the kind description of his performance

he won office as an independent, switched parties and decided to forgo a second term due to abysmal public polling. His announcement was met here with a mixture of bafflement and derision.

We can do much better.

[bigwillq]

3. Cool.

[kenfrequed]

4. hmm

I'm not as much a fan of this one

He voted against the war in iraq which I admire, particularly as a republican

He is for free trade, eliminating the estate tax, and voted for privatization of social security and for a bankruptcy bill that worked against people and in favor of banks.

In more than a few ways he is more economically conservative than Hillary so ultimately I would not support him.

[progressoid]

8. Yup.

I admire his willingness to openly defy the Repubs, but on trade and education he still leans to the right.

[kenfrequed]

9. Bernie all the way!

Yup, this is why I support Bernie Sanders for president!

[raindaddy]

7. I won't vote for another 3rd way Dem...

Seen enough..

[davidpdx]

11. +1

Chafee, and Webb are way too conservative.

[McCamy Taylor]

12. We need a few more to round out the debates.

[TheFarseer]

13. Voted against Iraq war

But he's wrong on nearly everything else.

[red dog 1]

15. + 1

[red dog 1]

16. Chafee.."has made Hillary Clinton's support for the invasion of Iraq the chief rationale ..

..for his primary challenge to her."?

He voted against the resolution to go to war with Iraq...I get that.

However, MOST Democrats voted to go to war with Iraq,
based solely on the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld lies about WMDs & Saddam Hussein having a part in the 911 attacks.

How could Hillary Clinton have known that Bush et.al. were lying about Iraq?

Is that the only thing HRC has done that he disagrees with?


As other DUers have stated on this thread,...Chafee is for:
--Free Trade (agreements)
--Elimination of the Estate Tax
--Privatizing Social Security

There is no way in hell that this guy will get the Democratic nomination, IMO