Message to the GOP: Chuck Chafee

Senator Lincoln Chafee, in the bluntest of terms, is a man whom we cannot trust. Though I am largely addressing Rhode Island Republicans with that statement, all political affiliations should realize that Senator Chafee is nothing more than an imposter, a liberal wolf wearing a conservative sheep suit. He must be voted out of office.

This nation was founded on the bedrock principles of limited government, free enterprise, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. Senator Chafee, as a logical being must reasonably conclude from his horrid voting record, has little regard for any of those principles. He has unremittingly supported the modern-day Dred Scott decision, none other than Roe v. Wade (I make the comparison because both Supreme Court decisions treat a human as chattel). While I would expect such ephemeral regard for human life from a Democrat, it is quite distressing that a fellow Republican would hold such hostility toward the most basic right.

His attack on the intrinsic value of human life does not end at abortion. Senator Chafee has shown that the littlest guy of all, a recently conceived human, is an unprotected being. Moreover, in the tradition of Dr. Josef Mengele, he views experimentation on said human beings as not only permissible, but something that taxpayer dollars should support. As many have aptly stated, Senator Chafee is the quintessential RINO—Republican In Name Only. Sorry, Senator, but I only vote for Republicans (or Democrats, for that matter) who realize that all are equal and protected under the law.

Though it pales in comparison to the value our civilization should place on human life, gun control is another example of why Senator Chafee must be chucked. Apparently, the Second Amendment means nothing to the Senator. (Perhaps because the Framers of the Constitution instituted it in order to restrain Big Government?) To the Senator, governments bestow rights on their citizens and, therefore, can rescind them at their whim. In the view of the Framers, citizens bestow rights to governments, while retaining sufficient personal autonomy (i.e. gun rights) so as to guarantee that Big Government—let alone other trespassers—will never unjustly intrude into their lives.

Senator Chafee’s defense of affirmative action is yet another example of his unreliability as a defender of freedom, and therefore of his misrepresentation of the first state to declare freedom from Great Britain. For the Senator, Rudyard Kipling’s “white man’s burden” is a viable ideology. For freedom-loving Americans, the ideal for which we strive is that we “not be judged by the color of [our] skin but by the content of [our] character,” as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamed. In the “progressive” mind of Senator Chafee, merit is an insufficient measure of a person’s qualifications. Apparently, government mandates are.

His anti-growth stance on taxes, his opposition to the War in Iraq, his illogical resistance to drilling in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), and his support of same-sex marriage are just four more reasons why the people should vote him out of office in the primaries on 12 September and, if necessary, in the general election on 7 November. He does not represent the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. He (fortunately) represents the fading wing of the GOP that better identifies with the elitists in the Democratic Party. Though I personally will vote for Mayor Stephen Laffey, Bozo the Clown would be a better Senator than Lincoln Chafee. Do what must be done. Chuck Chafee.