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Rumbling on the Right (Troubles For Chuck Hagel)
MSNBC/Newsweek ^ | 6/28/07 | Sam Stein - Staff Reporter

Posted on 06/29/2007 1:01:01 PM PDT by MplsSteve

For the past few months, Sen. Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, has flirted with the idea of running for president as an antiwar Republican. Now, however, that platform is threatening Hagel’s standing within his own state and party.

In a race that has received scant national attention, Jon Bruning, Nebraska’s 38-year-old Republican attorney general, is challenging Hagel’s bid for re-election to the Senate--by attacking him from the right. Bruning charges that Hagel’s stance on Iraq, as well as his criticism of the president and members of his cabinet (see: Alberto Gonzales), put the incumbent out of touch with the majority of Nebraskans.

“Nebraska is more conservative than the nation as a whole,” Bruning told NEWSWEEK. “Senator Hagel, however, has become more liberal. And for some reason he has an anger to George Bush that is not particularly productive.”

How substantive a threat does Bruning pose? No reliable independent sounding has yet been taken. According to a poll recently commissioned by Bruning’s office, he finds himself 9 percentage points ahead of Hagel in a head-to-head contest.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: chuckhagel; electioncongress; hagel; illegalimmigration; primaryelection; sellouts; ussenate; vampirebill
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To: MplsSteve

>> I think we all have not-so-positive feeling towards Senator Chuck Hagel ... Comments or opinions - anyone?

Speaking strictly for myself, I have the same “not so positive feelings” towards Hagel that my bowels have for salmonella-contaminated seafood.

If Bruning proves to be real, I’ll bet he has no problem raising funds from Nebraska as well as from “furriners” like me. I’ll be happy to contribute a few bucks towards his success (and Hagel’s defeat).


61 posted on 06/29/2007 2:19:21 PM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: JSDude1

George is spelled George.


62 posted on 06/29/2007 2:21:55 PM PDT by ClancyJ
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To: Republican Red

I agree.


63 posted on 06/29/2007 2:22:57 PM PDT by ClancyJ
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To: WillVoteForFood

Club member is exactly why I want term limits.

We don’t need club members, we need fighters for our cause. Clubs are created merely for cover, for payback, for inclusion.

They are up there to work for us - not be a country club partier.


64 posted on 06/29/2007 2:24:19 PM PDT by ClancyJ
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To: MuttTheHoople
I strongly disagree with President Bush on the illegal alien issue, but he still has my respect for his decisive handling of the Islamofascists in the wake of 9/11.

Is Bush better than Gore, yes, but he has lost my respect. He squandered an opportunity to right the good ship U.S.S. USA, but he wasted it. Even with the war, he started in Iraq negotiating with Muqtada. Then it was calling us sexist for opposing Harriet Miers, massive pork spending, calling racist for oppossing amnesty, and let's not forget not standing up for the Hadita Marines.

65 posted on 06/29/2007 2:26:15 PM PDT by Barney Gumble (A liberal is someone too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost)
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To: MplsSteve
Several years ago, Hagel said he was "not elected to represent Nebraska," but to do what he felt was best for the country. And that was prior to Afghanistan, Iraq, shamnesty, etc. He has long angered Nebraskans and will find the going won't be so easy this time.

Regarding the questions about Bob Kerrey, the last rumblings were that his wife doesn't want to move here, so he probably won't be running. Kerrey can have moments of genius, but they are few and far between. Nebraskans still remember his late nite trysts in the governor's mansion with Debra Winger.

66 posted on 06/29/2007 2:27:28 PM PDT by Use It Or Lose It (Jon Bruning for U.S. Senate! It's time to CHUCK Hagel.)
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To: adm5
You are very angry with President Bush. Fine by me. I can see no disrespect in anything you write, so you’ve made my point for me. Mr. X has been saying your exact words for months now. He does not call the POTUS juvenile names. He fights on the issues, as it should be in a mature debate.
67 posted on 06/29/2007 2:28:37 PM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: Republican Red; wideawake; All

>> The President being called “chimpy” on this forum is unacceptable to me in any circumstance. The fact that other posters supported the statement was appalling.

Hmmmm... I studied this thread and searched for any use of the term “chimpy” and I found none. In fact, I looked back at the entire thread and noticed that NO ONE AT ALL bashed the President until YOU TWO BROUGHT IT UP AND KEPT IT GOING.

What the heck is up with that nonsense?


68 posted on 06/29/2007 2:29:03 PM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: MplsSteve

Go Bruning!!!


69 posted on 06/29/2007 2:31:12 PM PDT by BamaAndy (Professor Librescu is an American hero.)
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To: wideawake
That describes many clowns on this forum

Your name calling reduces you to the same level as the people your comment is directed at.

70 posted on 06/29/2007 2:35:13 PM PDT by CharacterCounts
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To: Nervous Tick
Please re-read the comments. No one said it was on this thread. I said "this morning". Many knew what I was referring too. You only need ask but rather jump to accuse me of somehow lying.

I remember shortly after 9/11...i told my wife that at this point in time, Bush has the potential to go down as one of the great Presidents....jump forward to the present....i turn the TV channel when i see his chimpy little face...i don’t like posting that...but i just felt the need to come clean...

i feel better now.. ;)

5 posted on 06/29/2007 4:34:54 AM EDT by teldon30 (disgruntled 2nd class)

In Africa with first lady, Jenna Bush steals the show

71 posted on 06/29/2007 2:35:48 PM PDT by Republican Red (The word "courage" is not in the liberal vocabulary)
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To: MplsSteve

F#ck Hagel.


72 posted on 06/29/2007 2:41:18 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: Republican Red

Lame crapola.

You have a chip on your shoulder, and you & wideawake hijacked the thread at, oh, about post 3 to make it an anti-Bush-bashing whine instead of sticking to the subject.

That’s obvious to me. No further debate needed.

How much is the RNC paying you to take the heat off of Chuckie?


73 posted on 06/29/2007 2:41:44 PM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: MplsSteve

While I think it’s a good time for Bush to leave the scene, I can’t say I would be sorry to see Hagel join him. I would never mistake Bush for a conservative, compassionate or otherwise. Still I always enjoy it when some character like Hagel bites the dust because a conservative teaches him about arrogance.


74 posted on 06/29/2007 3:03:57 PM PDT by stevem
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To: MplsSteve

While I think it’s a good time for Bush to leave the scene, I can’t say I would be sorry to see Hagel join him. I would never mistake Bush for a conservative, compassionate or otherwise. Still I always enjoy it when some character like Hagel bites the dust because a conservative teaches him about arrogance.


75 posted on 06/29/2007 3:03:57 PM PDT by stevem
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To: digger48
Hagel has gone from an ACU rating of 96 in 2005, to one of 75, in 2006

Thats a substantial turn left

It happens to weak Republicans all the time.

Once they get inside the "Blue Bubble" of Washington they become intoxicated by its "blue gas", turn left and become beltway butt kissers.

76 posted on 06/29/2007 9:22:38 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (NY Times: "fake but accurate")
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To: NRA2BFree

...MEGABUMP!


77 posted on 06/29/2007 9:24:33 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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To: wideawake
It's not the disagreement with the President's mistakes that makes some here seem like clowns: it is the utter classlessness and puerility they display while expressing it.

Some people don't deal with their anger too well. You can't blame them. We see that man selling us out and attempting to destroy our country and our sovereignty. THAT is enough to anger most Americans. When I think what he would leave to our kids and grandkids simply because of his greed and lust for power, it really makes me angry. I'm ready to lynch him myself. That doesn't make me a clown, nor does it make any other FReepers clowns!!

78 posted on 06/29/2007 10:00:31 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: Holicheese

Well, at least you didn’t object to his calling you a clown.


79 posted on 06/29/2007 10:04:07 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: NRA2BFree
I'm ready to lynch him myself. That doesn't make me a clown

It sure does.

You are ridiculous - listen to yourself: "lynch"? Have you completely lost it?

80 posted on 06/30/2007 4:56:16 PM PDT by wideawake ("Pearl Harbor is America's fault, right, Mommy?" - Ron Paul, age 6, 12/7/1941)
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