I always liked former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee (RI). It’s too bad he was a Republican when he ran for re-election representing Rhode Island. IMHO, his remarks about Sarah Palin are right on the money.

(R)emarks by former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island surfaced in which Chafee called Palin a "cocky wacko," and said her vice presidential candidacy 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 Palin's 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, a visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, said to laughter.

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