Place your bets. Is Chuck Hagel:
1. a true blue RINO
2. acts this way to be called a "maverick" by the left
3. being blackmailed by the left into acting like a fool
4. really thinking he's got Presidential candidate possibilities
5. just plain stupid
I will win with choice 5.
6) Using the Clinton/McCain model of triangulation trying to appear as the sane one among all the partisan crazies for the sake of presidential asppirations.
Trouble for Hagel is:
1) He is an intellectual lightweight.
2) Liberal media love only lasts until you face another liberal in an election.
3) No frigging conservative I know would vote for him in a primary should the dumbass decide to run.
Hagel is done politically, he just does'nt know it yet.