It's Not the Party of Many Republicans Anymore
Former RI Sen. Lincoln Chafee Leaves GOP
The Associated Press Sunday, September 16, 2007; 11:18 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- 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.
. . . He also criticized Republican leaders for abandoning fiscal conservatism, once a mainstay of the GOP's platform, by passing tax cuts without spending cuts to balance the resulting loss of revenue. . .
________________________________________________________________________ Occasionally a political party gets hijacked and the 'neo-cons,' however you care to define that moniker, have hijacked Republicanism. It started with Newt Gingrich and truly caught fire with the likes of Tom DeLay. My father's party of fiscal …