Et tu, Shays?

AP tops a story about GOP bloodletting with a quote from Rep. Chris Shays, GOP moderate from Connecticut who co-sponsored Shays-Meehan, the House version of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law. Shays is currently fighting to save his seat. Here’s what he told the Yale Daily News about McCain:

He has lost his brand as a maverick,” Rep. Chris Shays, a Connecticut Republican and co-chairman of the McCain campaign in that state, told the Yale Daily News in the latest criticism. “He did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign.”

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  • Dee in Columbia MD

    Yes, he’s jumping on the trash McCain bandwagon, but if he really wanted to get on the good side of Connecticut voters he would have trashed Lieberman too.

  • g_crush

    .
    One more time, for emphasis:

    “He has lost his brand as a maverick,” Rep. Chris Shays, a Connecticut Republican and co-chairman of the McCain campaign in that state.

    .
    It’s like rats chewing through other rats in order to get out of the sinking ship…

  • http://phd9.blogspot.com Paul Dirks

    He did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign

    I understand that the sun rises in the east as well.

  • newfloridian

    This is almost as beautiful as a rainbow!!! The shivs come out and it’s one Republican against another Republican. As Warren Zevon said at the end of his Werewolves of London classic

    “Let’s Draw Blood!”

  • Dee in Columbia MD

    I’m teling you those Connecticut voters are so angry with Lieberman they are downright rabid and just want to eat a Republican for breakfast even a mild flavored one like Shays.

  • newfloridian

    This is almost as beautiful as a rainbow!!! The shivs come out and it’s one Republican against another Republican. As Warren Zevon said at the end of his Werewolves of London classic

    “Let’s Draw B…l…o…o…d!” See if this gets by moderation!

  • newfloridian

    Third attempt..

    This is almost as beautiful as a rainbow!!! The s…h…i…v…s come out and it’s one Republican against another Republican. As Warren Zevon said at the end of his W…e…r…e…w…o…l…v…e…s of London classic

    “Let’s Draw B…l…o…o…d!” See if this gets by moderation!

  • http://elvisberg.wordpress.com Elvis Elvisberg

    Well, duh. There is no GOP in the Northeast anymore. Bush-Rove-McC@in-Schmidt-P@lin have m*rdered it. Shays, Snowe, and Collins are anachronisms.

  • cincinnatus est exterminata!

    Somebody should introduce Shays to Michael Scherer. Dee in Columbia, the same thing happened to Lincoln Chaffee, which I’m sure is heavy on Shays’ mind.

  • newfloridian

    Fourth attempt
    This is almost as beautiful as a rainbow!!! The sticks come out and it’s one Re…pub…li…can against another Re…pub…li…can. As Warren Zevon said at the end of his W…e…r…e…w…o…l…v…e…s of London classic

    “Let’s Draw B…l…u…u…d Had to change last word?

  • newfloridian

    Nice to see Shays come to his senses. I now have four versions of a post in moderation.

  • newfloridian

    Let’s see what words get booted out.. Republican?

  • newfloridian

    Warren Zevon?

  • newfloridian

    Werewolves?

  • newfloridian

    Shivs?

  • Dee in Columbia MD

    Cincy I would say he’s toast but ths is connecticut so I’ll just say that Shays is a crouton.

  • newfloridian

    Blood?

  • http://pourmecoffee.blogspot.com pourmecoffee

    Shays better watch it or Hannity won’t let him keep his seat.

  • newfloridian

    London classic

  • newfloridian

    Ah. can’t say L o n d o n C l a s s i c

  • Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Christopher Shays doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Lincoln Chaffee, who aside from a bizarre sentimental attachment to a Republican Party that died about the time he was born, is a good, thoughtful and smart man. Shays is Lieberman without the megalomania, and if part of the reason he goes down is because his constituents (belatedly) figured out that the little rat is no more to be trusted than the big weasel, so be it. Pity Mainers can’t get the same thing through their heads about that odious self-serving hypocrite Susan Collins.

    Though it is fun to watch the rat try to swim.

  • http://www.ghostnote.com Cookie Puss

    THanks for staying on the cutting edge, Rep. SHays.

  • newfloridian

    Lets try one more word rainbow?

  • cincinnatus est exterminata!

    I’m Connecticut ignorant….what’s the problem w/ toast and croutons? Are croutons Conn’s major export or something?

  • Dee in Columbia MD

    Nah cincy — they just like to eat a lot of salad

  • g_crush

    .
    newfloridian, try ‘London cl-arse-sic instead.

  • cincinnatus est exterminata!

    Chaffee was one of the few good Republicans and he still lost….doesn’t bode well for Shays.

    Scrotum
    Rectum

  • cincinnatus est exterminata!

    So you can say ‘scrotum’ but not mol@sses?

  • Cliff

    So you can say ‘scrotum’ but not mol@sses?
    .
    Let’s take that one step further: Phil Gramm is a scrotum.

  • Cliff

    Hey! It worked!
    .
    As for the post itself:
    Once again, the faint sound you hear from the Southwest is me cackling madly at the GOPocalypse.

  • g_crush

    .
    Cliff: .the faint sound you hear from the Southwest is me cackling madly at the GOPocalypse.
    .
    Be happy, but realize that it’s no time to let up. (video linky, well worth it).

  • mredct

    Shays has included pictures of himself with Obama in some of his ads here. He has really been downplaying being a Republican. He’s only squeaked thru the last 2 elections.

  • Andy from MA

    Guess Congressman Shays, mavericks are cattle without brands. As Casey Stengle might have said, “you could look it up.”

    Nice sense of irony, JC…unless you didn’t know that either.

  • http://pourmecoffee.blogspot.com pourmecoffee

    Is Roberta McCain still leaning McCain/Palin?

  • Cliff

    g_crush: I’ll have to catch the video after work. I get what you’re saying, though: the Culture War (or whatever you want to call it)doesn’t end here.
    I’m just drawing some much needed encouragement at the sight of the jackals turning on each other.

  • Andy from MA

    Jim, FL : So right about Susan Collins.

  • http://www.ghostnote.com Cookie Puss

    Mod test: douch-nozzle

  • http://www.ghostnote.com Cookie Puss

    $hit! Typo. Should have been douchE-nozzle.

  • Deggjr

    Now JC, don’t be so elitist with the title of the post. ‘Shays, Dolchstoß’ would better represent the content.

  • newsfatigue

    Bravo, Mr. Shays.

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