Chafee: McCain Killed My '06 Senate Bid
The Hill reports:
Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Lincoln Chafee (I) said Tuesday that Arizona Sen. John McCain, the GOP's 2008 presidential nominee, helped wreck his chances of holding onto his Senate seat in 2006.
President Obama's decision to stay out of the Rhode Island governor's race out of respect for Chafee thrust the ex-Republican into the news this week. The president's move provoked Democratic nominee Frank Caprio, who told him to "shove it." Now Chafee is taking shots at Obama's 2008 opponent.
Chafee was a one-term centrist GOP sentor who opposed the war in Iraq in contrst with McCain (Ariz.), who was one of its chief supporters. But the former senator said that when McCain campaigned for him in 2006, he spoke about "more troops needed in Iraq." And at an event with a group of environmentalists, McCain called for more nuclear energy.
"You talk about cold, calculating political opportunism — that's the way I felt at the time,'' he said on WPRO Radio, according to the Providence Journal. "At the time, it certainly wasn't helpful ... Those words were used against me.''
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