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Former GOP senator calls Palin a 'cocky wacko'
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© September 11, 2008
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Former Rhode Island Republican
Sen. Lincoln Chafee has called vice presidential candidate
Sarah Palin a "cocky wacko" and said her selection as John
McCain's running mate has energized supporters of Democrat
Barack Obama.
Chafee left the Republican Party last year after losing
his bid for re-election and now supports Obama. He told
an audience Tuesday at the New America Foundation in
Washington that the Alaska governor has revived a
"lackluster McCain candidacy."
"They've just thrown this firestorm, this tornado, into
the whole presidential election," Chafee said in response
to an audience member's question about whether the Obama
campaign should worry about Palin's presence in the race.
He said her speech at the Republican National Convention
had the unintended effect of energizing Democrats and
Obama supporters.
"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," Chafee said to laughter.
Chafee said in an interview Thursday that he found much
of Palin's convention speech objectionable, particularly
her "mocking" assertion that Obama was overly concerned
with al-Qaida terrorists getting read their rights.
That comment "got to the core of everything wrong with
the last eight years," he said.
"I consider that wacky, and certainly her tone was very,
very cocky," said Chafee, a visiting fellow at Brown
University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
"So I thought they were appropriate words."
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