Hagel Approved for Defense in Sharply Split Senate Vote

“McCain voted no”

There were two key votes. The first key vote allows the nomination to go forward for a vote. Otherwise it never get’s to the floor. It was being held up. Remember the vote some days ago where the Republicans kept this nomination from being voted on, by largely sticking together and the Dems/Media called it a filibuster??

Well, that same procedure happened again, and McCain, Graham and the lot of them that voted no before on procedure, this time voted yes. That allowed the nomination vote to proceed. McCain voted yes on that, knowing that when it was voted on, it would pass. He knew how his fellow senators would vote and that it would get the necessary votes. So then on the final vote he voted no, so he could say he strongly opposed Hagel because he was the wrong man for the job.

If the Republicans had held together in opposing the vote, they could have kept this from ever being voted on.

I generally agree with your point, SFF.

The problem here with Rand is that his dad is so wacko on foreign and defense policy, we need to see how the son handles such matters. Rand is good on domestic issues. This one went to our national security. Of all times you could defend voting against a President’s nominee THIS WAS THE TIME. Even mercurial types like McCain voted no. Hagel is the worst nominee EVER. And I’ve been around a long time (cough).

I have to think there is something in Rand that actually sympathizes with some aspects of Obama’s foreign and defense policies, wherein at which point they might track with his dad’s views. Hagel represents that. At the very least one might say Rand could be conflicted in sorting out his own responsibilities to protect America from his dad’s views, which are off the chart and in some respects resemble Obama’s and Hagel’s.

You are spot on on your assessment of Paul’s being more than the perverbial “chip off the old block(head).”
Occasionally, I think that something the elder Paul said made sense, then the next minute he opens his mouth and spouts total craziness, i.e. America deserved 9/11 for “interfering in other countries!”

Rand’s behavior is more misleading or is it merely “hopeful” as he was supported over more liberal opponent and spoke favorably on pro-life issues, unlike his father, also a physician but unwilling to lift a finger in support of slaughtered innocent babies.

I know of some pro-life folk who are total kooks on many issues and also liberal on issues like the Second Amendment, taxes and school choice but I’ll never trust anyone that supports the slaughter of millions of babies, claiming freedom of the individual.

Nope, not only is Rand like his dad on other Libertiarian issues, he is also unsympathetic to Israel’s right to exist against neighbors who desire their total destruction.

My guess is that Ron and Herr Chuck are old pals. Guys in Washington with the “vision” to see deeply into the “Jewish conspiracy” tend to hang out together. Rand probably figured he owed the confirmation vote to dad. Oh well.

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