Posted on 08/20/2006 9:02:08 AM PDT by SmithL
Republicans have lost their way when it comes to many core GOP principles and may be in jeopardy heading into the fall elections, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. says.
Hagel, a possible presidential candidate in 2008, said Sunday that the GOP today is very different party from the one when he first voted Republican.
"First time I voted was in 1968 on top of a tank in the Mekong Delta," said Hagel, a Vietnam veteran. "I voted a straight Republican ticket. The reason I did is because I believe in the Republican philosophy of governance. It's not what it used to be. I don't think it's the same today."
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?"
His frustration does not lead him to think Democrats offer a better alternative. But Hagel wants to see the GOP return to its basic beliefs.
"I think we've lost our way," Hagel said. "And I think the Republicans are going to be in some jeopardy for that and will be held accountable."
Hagel has not decided whether he will run for president in 2008. But he respects his wife's reservations about being first lady — cited in a book about Hagel.
"I think it just shows the immense good judgment of my wife and how sane she is. I don't know of any spouse who would wish the job of president on their husband or wife," Hagel said on Fox News Sunday. "It's a big job. It's a tough job."
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BINGO!
"First time I voted was in 1968 on top of a tank in the Mekong Delta," said Hagel, a Vietnam veteran. "I voted a straight Republican ticket. The reason I did is because I believe in the Republican philosophy of governance."
In Hagel we have a RINO John Kerry wannabe for President.
Even sadder is that the Democrat is more consevative than the Republican.
"Apparently Sen. Hagel thinks that being a Republican means being all things to all people," said IronJack, a Nebraska Republican who's tired of Hagel's RINO posturing. "If Mr. Hagel is so disgusted with the principles his party represents that he prefers the company of loons, then he's old enough to understand how a door works. With any luck, he won't be around after 2008 anyway, at least not as an elected official from the State of Nebraska."
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't following you." Think about this, screamer. Assume Hagel at least wants to keep his job in the Senate. Where does he get that support, Minnesota? Of course not. When you call people morons and idiots and refer to them as stupid, you're calling the citizens of Nebraska those names. Try growing up.
So since their actions put them firmly IN the Leftists camp as knowing propaganda allies, they should expect Conservatives to treat them like Leftists. Actions speak WAY louder the fraudulent claims of "Conservative" beliefs. Freepers who act like a leftist, posts like a leftist, probably are Leftists simply lying about their real political agenda.
So are the Always Whining simply so naive that they do NOT see that their actions are actively helping the Democrats or are you simply lying about your real allegiance and INTENDING to help them?
On the issue of Judges alone Bush is WAY more Conservative then any of the Freeper Fringers with their Always Crying EVER have, or will be.
No. Vote for a Democrat before you vote for Chuck Hagel. Stay home. Knit a doily. Write in Hillary Clinton. Do anything but send that preening jellyfish back to the Capitol.
Right down to the same continual references to serving in Vietnam. Hagel=Kerry
He's done far better than most: he has a taxpayer friendly voting record (according to the NTU) and dared to to criticize the record of the most pro-big government prez since LBJ. What have you done?
There is a difference between whining and thoughtful criticism. You apparently are in a third category: blind and total loyalty to the prez.
I used Chicken Little because that character was always portraying things worse than they were. I consider Hagel a hand wringer. Leaders who engaged in public hand wringing do not instill confidence. I do not like a lot about McCain or Hagel but their service records unlike Kerry's are unassailable.
It is truly amazing, how people forget it is GW that gave them tax cuts and a lower unemployment rate average than the 70's, 80's and nineties. The only president since the inception of radical islam to face those madmen head-on. Oh, I forgot, Bush can't do anything right.
Bush is the first President to openly take on Social Security. His Medicare Rx plan will save the program billions in the long-run. Yes, he has not vetoed a single spending bill and signed that stupid campaign-finance "reform" bill which is very discouraging. But had 9/11 not occurred, Bush did have a laundry-list of proposals that would have overhauled the very structure of the federal government itself. A lot of departments and agencies would have been abolished or consolidated, saving taxpayers billions.
---First time I voted was in 1968 on top of a tank in the Mekong Delta," said Hagel, a Vietnam veteran. ---
They always seem to start out this way, when they're pulling the serious wool over your eyes.
Spend some time going through his voting record, and see where and when he threw America under the bus, as I did. You'll know when you find them.
http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=BC031069
I know a few heroes, like my dad whom served in the pacific during WW11 for TWO YEARS unlike Kerry's unimpressive 4 months, and heroes do not brag about their service.
Now why wouldn't a challenger stand up? Because this corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" which is owned by the elites who have NO desire for a true conservative agenda to flourish, will snuff out any opposition to their well-greased puppets. Only when you all start voting outside of the cartel will you ever take the country back. that or an all out civil war.
Now who's being hysterical? I asked a simple question. I don't disagree that Cryin' Chuck is a RINO, but only the "FReeper FRingers" as you call them seem to be willing to discuss the content of THIS article. Why aren't you? Hagel for sure isn't as conservative as I'd like, but neither is George W. Bush.
If we're to undertake a war on terror, which I wholeheartly agree with, then some domestic belt tightening is in order. Instead what we get is the largest expansion of goverment in my lifetime.
So this time Hagel is right. Where he's wrong is that all he's doing is talking about it instead of actually doing something about it.
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