rssHagel on GOP Approach: It Hasn’t Worked
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 3:15 pm
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Retiring Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel was once called “(R-France)” on the cover of National Review for his various conservative unorthodoxies. According to Sam Smith at Huffington Post, Hagel vented some long-suppressed agita today against his own Republican Party at a Johns Hopkins forum:
“Yes, there have been some differences and some pretty significant ones in [the Republican Party]. But when you ask the question: ‘Has [our approach] worked? I don’t think many people will say it has worked,” he said, adding later: “God knows I would never question the quality of our elected officials, that’s why I’m so popular with many of them.”
A thought-experiment. Had Hagel opted to stay in the Senate while saying stuff like this or openly endorsed Barack Obama, do you suppose the GOP caucus would have embraced him?
Oh, and Hagel — who was once on Obama’s shortlist for secretary of state in the wooly, pre-Hillary Rodham Clinton days — said many nice things about Defense Secretary Bob Gates, which can’t hurt Gates’ chances for staying on another year.
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2 Comments
Comment posted November 19, 2008 @ 5:26 am
Chuck Hagel is absolutely right about the Republican Party under Bush and about Rush Limbaugh:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/16923
Republican strategist Ed Rollins called Bush “a failure who destroyed his party”
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on November 6, 2008 – 3:31pm.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/16333
VIDEO: Dan Abrams showed how Rush Limbaugh can be a liability to GOP candidates!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on August 18, 2008 – 4:15am.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/16851
Rush Limbaugh's comment about Colin Powell and race can be nationalized by Dems!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on October 28, 2008 – 12:07pm.
If Chuck Hagel is going after Rush Limbaugh, then so should Democrats. I provided plenty of damaging material about Limbaugh to credibly attack him in the above two links!
Comment posted November 19, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
Chuck Hagel is absolutely right about the Republican Party under Bush and about Rush Limbaugh:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/16923
Republican strategist Ed Rollins called Bush “a failure who destroyed his party”
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on November 6, 2008 – 3:31pm.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/16333
VIDEO: Dan Abrams showed how Rush Limbaugh can be a liability to GOP candidates!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on August 18, 2008 – 4:15am.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/16851
Rush Limbaugh's comment about Colin Powell and race can be nationalized by Dems!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on October 28, 2008 – 12:07pm.
If Chuck Hagel is going after Rush Limbaugh, then so should Democrats. I provided plenty of damaging material about Limbaugh to credibly attack him in the above two links!
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