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Sen. Hagel Says GOP Has Lost Its Way
AP ^ | 8/20/6 | WILL LESTER

Posted on 08/20/2006 9:02:08 AM PDT by SmithL

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To: SmithL

Someone ought to send the dear Senator a mirror. How many earmarks have been made in your name, Senator? How many big-government programs and stifling regulations got your seal of approval? What are the chances that you'd work to roll back, say, agricultural subsidies?


21 posted on 08/20/2006 9:15:41 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
Quite true. The claim made by some that Hagel is a "RINO" does match his pro-taxpayer/small government voting record. Perhaps the pro-Bush folks who are attacking Hagel are the true RINOs e.g. the voted for a man who has become the most pro-big government prez since LBJ.
22 posted on 08/20/2006 9:16:42 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Biblebelter

I wouldn't refer to an Army grunt who was awarded two purple hearts as a Chicken Little. We need more people in public office who have served.


23 posted on 08/20/2006 9:17:40 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: thoughtomator

Actually (see my previous on Hagel's voting record) post his stands on the issues compare favorably with the beloved George W. "RINO" Bush. If you are looking for perfection, however, then you need to consider Ron Paul.


24 posted on 08/20/2006 9:18:37 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Excellent post. I agree with every word you said, except that Bush "understands we are at war". If he truly understood this, he would do something about our wide open borders.


25 posted on 08/20/2006 9:19:20 AM PDT by Ima Lurker
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To: SmithL

26 posted on 08/20/2006 9:19:50 AM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
He's right

On Judges alone Bush has done so far much more for the Conservative movement then any of the Democrats pretending to be Conservatives on the wacko Freeper Fringe with their perpetual whining have, or ever will, do. Hagel is an idiot studying to be a moron and failing, just like all the utterly hysteric pseudo Conservatives Freeper Fringes with their DNC Virtual Campaigning pouting One has to wonder if the the 100%er Whiners with their DNC "Pretend to be a "Betrayed Conservative and infiltrate Conservative websites" propaganda posting ACTUALLY think any of us are stupid enough to fall for this Moveon.org directed clowning?

Mad as hell? Dumb as hell would be more accurate.

27 posted on 08/20/2006 9:21:27 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (History shows us that if you are not willing to fight, you better be prepared to die)
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To: butternut_squash_bisque

How about telling us what you disagree with about his statements, rather than just calling him a name?


28 posted on 08/20/2006 9:21:43 AM PDT by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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To: SmithL; All
I want Hagel to run for POTUS in 2008, so when he is thoroughly trounced and embarrassed by his ass being handed to him, he will have no one to blame but himself. For someone as arrogant as Hagel it will be a tough pill to swallow.

Hagel only cares about Hagel and that is becoming clearer each day that passes. Hagel is his biggest fan, and he has the same personality and trait flaws as John Kerry. Except for party affiliation and some political beliefs, the men are identical. Something not to be proud of.
29 posted on 08/20/2006 9:22:36 AM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: Doohickey

Don't bother. He's a true believer. He'll fight to the last man for Dubya.


30 posted on 08/20/2006 9:23:16 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: SmithL

Well, his wife has quite a point. He ought to listen to her.


31 posted on 08/20/2006 9:23:46 AM PDT by GSlob
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To: Ima Lurker
Idiotic post would be more accurate. More of the DNC Clown posse I see. Think you people are clever the way you ping each other to come back up each others propagandizing?

Unfortunately we see this little game every election year. No one here is fooled by stupid Leftist games

32 posted on 08/20/2006 9:24:25 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (History shows us that if you are not willing to fight, you better be prepared to die)
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To: SmithL
I must have missed the trimming of government undertaken by Nixon & Co. I must have missed all of the free-trade agreements he signed. I must have missed his tax cuts.

I salute Hagel's service in Vietnam, but he must have heard some really bad reporting on Armed Forces Radio if he believed Nixon was for smaller government and free trade.

33 posted on 08/20/2006 9:24:55 AM PDT by GoBucks2002
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To: jrooney
Except for party affiliation and some political beliefs, the men are identical

You have pretty much summed up the profile of the two main (big government) candidates in the last presidential election: Bush and Kerry.

34 posted on 08/20/2006 9:25:02 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: MNJohnnie

Bingo. Agree 100%


35 posted on 08/20/2006 9:25:40 AM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: Captain Kirk

You act like your character. Stuck in the sixties.


36 posted on 08/20/2006 9:26:57 AM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: jrooney

And your point is.....?


37 posted on 08/20/2006 9:27:43 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Captain Kirk

Hagel never meets a TV camera he doesn't like.....yet another career politician prostituting himself as a media darling. He does not sound like a strong conservative to me on TV and has undermined the WH often. Bush has spent like a drunken sailor and weak on the border protection so us 'neocons' dont blindly follow a pied piper but we will hold our GOP pols accountable....Hagel is high on the list as well.


38 posted on 08/20/2006 9:28:56 AM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: SmithL
Hagel asked: "Where is the fiscal responsibility of the party I joined in '68? Where is the international engagement of the party I joined — fair, free trade, individual responsibility, not building a bigger government, but building a smaller government?"

So Hagel, how long were you in the Senate? Approaching 12 years, right?

What have you done to cut the size of government?

39 posted on 08/20/2006 9:29:51 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (404 Page Error Found)
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To: MNJohnnie
Think you people are clever

Thank you. Too bad we can't say the same for you.

40 posted on 08/20/2006 9:30:03 AM PDT by Ima Lurker
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