[new yorker 77]

Hagel is a fraud.

[Dog Gone]

But if he has aspirations for higher office, as a Republican, he is going to need to change his attitude and change it quick.

It's a little too late for that. We've noticed his attitude long ago. A change of attitude now wouldn't do any good.

[LibLieSlayer]

Hagel is "dead man walking". He may be re-elected as Senator, but he will NEVER be a National candidate.

LLS

[Rummyfan]

I don't know how serious Hagel is about higher positions in politics. If he is content being a Senator from Nebraska he can probably get away with this stuff for as long as he wants. But if he has aspirations for higher office, as a Republican, he is going to need to change his attitude and change it quick.

Chuck Hagel is the NYT's type of Republican, meaning he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell in a national election. His behaviour this past week only confirmed that, and local Freeper comments indicate that he'd even have trouble getting re-elected in he were up in 2006.

[G.Mason]

Hmmmm ... I see Hagel now ... he's sitting in a field watching the corn grow.

[jazusamo]

"If Hagel cares about his standing in the Republican party he ought to clarify his remark or publicly apologize to the Vice President."

McIntyre's got that exactly right but even if he does Hagel will never cut it with most Repubs.

[gondramB]

"I don't know the tone with which Hagel uttered his snide comment on the Cheney shooting to the Omaha World-Herald that "If he'd (Cheney) been in the military, he would have learned gun safety" but unless it was a bad attempt at a joke, this comes across as the type of cheap shot I'd expect from left-wing partisans."

I've heard that sort of comment/joke plenty from conservatives as well as liberals.

[jla]

I wonder what Senator Hagel thinks of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?

[finnman69]

Too bad Hagel was not hunting w/ Cheney.

[ruschpa]

Completely agree. But that guy has been taking pot shots and worse for quite a while now
He's been openly criticizing the admin. for the longest and his remarks have been getting personal.

[kittymyrib]

Can't the farmers in Nebraska come up with someone better than Hegel to represent them?

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

I very much doubt Hagel's term as a Senator will last beyond this term! The Nebraska is a very conservative state and don't like being hookwinked! They thought he was conservative!

[roses of sharon]

Whores ARE cheap.

[DCPatriot]

A Republican like Hagel could pull a Jeffords and get elected President as a Democrat.

Ronald Reagan switched parties..remember?

I think the time is right for a highly visible person to give the democratics a real platform to save their party.

The current leadership doesn't do or say anything positive. They just hate Bush and obstruct...and not always in that order.

There may be a method to Hagel's madness.

[SevenMinusOne]

Way too much time is given to this fool, Hagel - He is a self-absorbed jerkoff.

If the GOP leadership won't cut his legs off....so be it. Le the MSM use this fool all the want. He is going absolutely no where on a National level for which he aspires.

Nor do 95% of the American public even care what he says. The MSM like him, that's all.

[jos65]

Just another cheap shot wannabe.

[YOUGOTIT]

Hagel should be defeated in his next run and I will donate to any real American Republican that will run against him.

[68skylark]

Did Hagel ever serve in the military?

[Beagle8U]

""If he'd (Cheney) been in the military, he would have learned gun safety"

Chuck Hagal is a Nebraska Senator that likely pissed off lots of hunters in his home state with that silly comment!

Accidents happen, and Cheney is a lifelong hunter that happened to make a mistake, it happens.

That cheap shot at him, was a cheap shot at all the hunters in his home state, I hope they remember it when that turd runs for office again!

[Richard Axtell]

Hagel should be "released" from any obligations he might have incurred when he joined the Republican Party. Let him join Jumpin Jim Jeffords in obscurity and ignominity for his lack of principle and fawning worship of the leftist press.