Who do you think the next Republican to defect will be?

[Taverner]

I know a lot of us don't want them coming over to our side - but I see this happening a lot the next few years.

[CreekDog]

1. Which one isn't a defect?

:evilgrin:

[Captain Hilts]

2. I hope Ollie, but think Crist. nt

[Taverner]

3. Yes - that's who I voted for

He had that "Get me the fuck out of my party" look last time I saw him on TV

[mascarax]

4. Chafee already quietly defected...

after he lost in 2006. Changed to Independent.

For the poll, I'm thinking Crist.

[ellenfl]

5. other - - snowe AND collins eom

[Swamp Rat]

6. Dubya

He's gonna blame Unka Dick for everything then drink himself to death.

[TwilightZone]

7. Snowe has made it pretty clear that she's not going anywhere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/opinion/29snowe.html

[MADem]

8. Lincoln Chaffee left the GOP some time ago. He's an independent.

http://www.projo.com/news/content/CHAFEE_GOP_09-16-07_DP751KF.31dd3fe.html

PROVIDENCE — Lincoln D. Chafee, who lost his Senate seat in the wave of anti-Republican sentiment in last November’s election, said yesterday that he has left the party.

Chafee said he disaffiliated with the party he had helped lead, and his father had led before him, because the national Republican Party has gone too far away from his stance on too many critical issues, from war to economics to the environment.

“It’s not my party any more,” he said.

Chafee’s departure is another step in the waning of the strain of moderate Republicanism that was once a winning political philosophy from Rhode Island and Connecticut to the Canadian border. For the first time since the Civil War, the six New England states combined now have only one Republican U.S. House member, Connecticut’s Christopher Shays.

Chafee said he disaffiliated from the party “in June or July,” making him an unaffiliated voter. He did so quietly, and until yesterday, he said, “No one’s asked me about it.” He said he made the move because “I want my affiliation to accurately reflect my status.”

“There’s been a gradual depravation of … the issues the party should be strong on,” and the direction of the national party, he said.

That’s no secret. In a Journal Op-Ed piece published on the Thursday before the election, Chafee himself laid out some of the ways he disagreed with his party, notably as one of only 23 senators and the only Republican to oppose the resolution supporting the invasion of Iraq. He went on to criticize the “permanent deficits” caused by Republican tax cuts.

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This is from Sep 2007

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. Can't they just form their own party? And take the DLC and BlueBalls with them.

So the Democratic party can actually be oh, I don't know..... DEMOCRATS again?

[madokie]

10. I think Crist and Arnold both will be coming over