Posted on 12/13/2012 1:51:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
When Zero throws Israel under the bus, he can blame the GOP.
He is anti-Israel and a nasty piece of work who was sucking up to the Democrats last I saw him. He was a backstabber (GW Bush)
I suppose I should know this but I don’t so I’ll ask...is it reasonable for me to assume that Hagel’s a RINO? It’s hard to imagine any *real* Republican getting within a country mile of the OsamaObama Administration without a hazmat suit on.
Hagal is the VERY Definition of “RINO”!
The Senate could probably filibuster this appointment but that would require a GOP with some guts so it'll happen about the time Hell throws a kegger.
Not only a Rino, he is a major league anti Israel and anti US military a-hole.
There is a brite side (for me).
This will keep Chuck out of Nebraska for a few more years. We have a long tradition of electing people we really don’t want around to public office.
O’Bozo wants a Republican to blame for Pansy-fying and downsizing the military.
A McCain clone? They hate each other! Hagel blasted gramps in 2007 for being pro war. Hagel insinuated without comming right out and endorsing he was pro Obama. Hagel and Obama were friends in the senate and worked on nuclear weapons security. Hagel is definitely a RHINO but nothing like Gramps. This will shut gramps out of military no matter what committee he is on. This appointment is a big FU to John.
Somehow the Dems didn't get the memo when John Tower was nominated.
Actually, he is not a McCain clone. He is so left RINO, he makes McCain appear to be to the right of most of the posters on this site (only appears).
All I can say for Hagel is that he is better than Kerry for SecDef - which is why Kerry’s name was probably floated.
He may not be on John McCrazy's Christmas card list, but he's definitely an ideological clone. If anything, he's more wishy-washy than McBraindead.
This will be touted by Obamao as a bi-partisan action which is indicative of his non-partisan approach to gov’t, and unfortunately, most of the GOPE in the Senate will applaud that statement as true.
Screw them all. The GOP is dead to me. Until all of the entrenched GOPE die off, there is no hope of reviving the party in a Conservative mold. It is time to build, aggressively, a third party Libertarian Conservative coalition and party.
I do not disagree on wish washy, but when it comes to military they are very much opposed. This is why Hagel did everything but endorse Obama. Hagel came out during election and opposed gramps on Iraq. Also where was Hagel when Katrina happened? With Obama in Russia on a trip over security for nuclear weapons security. Gramps is all about military and him and Hagel are completely opposite here. Hagel prefers diplomacy and gramps not so much.
Leon Panetta himself was “once” a Republican Congressman representing the 16th District in California, back about 1973, but switched parties when he became “appalled” with the Republicans when Nixon had to resign over Watergate.
Chuck Hagel is another RINO who never had much party allegiance, much like former Florida Charlie Crist, who only recently changed from “Republican” to “Democrat”, probably one of the more honest actions he has undertaken in his career.
I kind of see a pattern here, the Current Regime reaching out for somebody who has SOME credibility for the job, and it just happens, most of them were at one time or another, associated with the Republicans in the past.
But of course, it was the party that left them, not the other way around.
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