You know, now that you mention is, when I watched him tonight, I just kept saying to myself, "What could he possibly be thinking. He wants to run for POTUS. WHO does he think will vote for him."
Any thoughts on that? What "wing" of the party is he catering to?
I think the Dems have identified their "johnson option". If Johnson dies, Hagel is the guy who jumps ship to keep the senate in Dem hands.
The eunuch wing.
It would be interesting to see who his major supporters are, from whom he gets funding. Maybe the same ones who demanded from Chaffee that he oppose John Bolton, on the grounds that Bolton "supported Israel too much"?
The internationalist wing - anyone who was on Saddam's and Kofi Annan's payroll. Hagel, oil for food and Scott Ritter's sugardaddy al khafaji seem connected at the hip.