Chafee: A "Cocky Wacko" On The GOP Ticket

Former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee, who left the GOP after being defeated for re-election in 2006, called Sarah Palin a "cocky wacko," but admitted that she has told a Washington audience Tuesday that while Sarah Palin has revived a "lackluster McCain candidacy," the AP reports. (To see the video, click here).

Speaking to the New American Foundation, Chafee was asked about Palin by an audience member and he responded by saying that her candidacy has "thrown this firestorm, this tornado, into the whole presidential election." Chafee, who is supporting Barack Obama, said that he speech to the GOP convention also energized Democrats. "People were coming into my office, phone calls were flooding in, e-mails were coming in, 'I just sent money to Obama, I couldn't sleep last night' – from the left. To see this cocky wacko up there."

In an interview with the AP Thursday, Chafee said that he "found much of Palin's convention speech objectionable, particularly her 'mocking' assertion that Obama was overly concerned with al-Qaeda terrorists getting" their rights read to them. That "got to the core of everything wrong with the last eight years," said Chafee. "I consider that wacky, and certainly her tone was very, very cocky," he added.

[ronmwanga]

This may be the case of the Dodo calling the Cocky Wacko featherbrained. Lincoln Chaffee is a wonderful New England Republican, which, ironically, is sort of a Dodo bird -- an endangered species as a result of Rovian -- southern, Evangelical -- politics.

[ziadora]

I say, shoot the bird. Signed, *** Sarah

[heartwords]

I saw a little blue bird sitting in a great oak tree singing a song of freedom. Then came a hunter with his sling shot loaded and ready to fire.

Will he choose to take the life of this sweet bird. Or let the bird live to continue singing the song of freedom.

FREEDOM.. UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL.. NATIONS ARE WATCHING!!!

CHOOSE WISELY..

WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS...

Sarah are you & Senator McCain really going to shake up Washington??

Will you do something about the due nothing Washington crowd??

Will you clean up the messes and stand for what is right??

If you really can... WE THE PEOPLE of this Great Country will STAND with you.

We''''''''re ready for a real CHANGE.

Are you & Senator McCain ready to make the changes???

SARAH.. be our voice.. be strong & courageous.

[ejastarte]

Her first interview on ABC went great. She''s ready to go to war with Russia over Georgia. The other Georgia.

[ziadora]

Power
Religion
Oil
War
Sarah Palin

[thebob-bob]

Chafee thinks she''s %u201Ccocky wacko%u201D. Huckabee thinks she''s unqualified. The only folks who think Palin''s anything but a desperate and reckless choice are the true-believer kool-aid drinkers who have heard her read one speech over and over again. The more we find out, the scarier she becomes.

They call it a bounce for a reason. it falls back down to the ground. Watch.

No More Years.

[pregnanteen2]

palin is a lost cause just like mccain!

[mattcat25]

I admit, I was intrigued by the *** librarian look, and was like most Americans anticipating my introduction to the little known Governor of Alsaka. But, then she spoke%u2026

Sarah Palin has the most irritating and annoying speaking voice I%u2019ve ever heard!
%u201Cdo you know the difference between a Hakky Mamm and a Pit Bull!!%u201D

%u201CTAAAAAD! I%u2019M PREGNANT AGAIN!!!!%u201D


Imagine hearing this every year at the State of the Union Address?

[smithdj66]

You can hear the scared tone of the Obama supporters in every post! As a former Clinton supporter, I think Palin is an acceptable choice and McCain has my vote. Not everyone who liked Clinton is a radical left wing. I respected her far more than any of the choices, but now I''ll take my second choice McCain/Palin. We need to control our spending before we get to enjoy the first Depression of the Twenty First Century.

[mmstar20]

What is this guys smoking? Sen. Obama has been the cocky one througout this whole campaign, way before Gov. Palin came on the scene.