Posted on 09/11/2007 12:23:43 PM PDT by syriacus
The president of the New School, J. Robert Kerrey, is a step closer to a possible bid to return to the Senate following Senator Hagel's announcement yesterday that he won't seek re-election next year.
If Mr. Kerrey runs and wins, the Nebraska seat would switch from the Republican to the Democratic column. That would be a boon to the Democrats, who currently have a narrow 51–49 majority in the chamber.
However, Mr. Kerrey is far from a party-line Democrat, particularly on the central issue of the moment, the Iraq war. In addition, if Nebraskans replace Mr. Hagel with Mr. Kerrey, they will be trading a Republican who has called the war "hopeless" and "an absolute replay of Vietnam" for a Democrat who has insisted that the invasion was justified and that an abrupt withdrawal would hand an unacceptable win to Al Qaeda.
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Thanks God for Kerrey’s stupid vote on that 1993 budget bill. Without it, we may never have had the historic “Republican Revolution” of 1994.
Kerrey is no DINO. He’s a party-line Democrat.
Ben Nelson is more conservative than 4 of our senators.
If elected, will he stay for the whole thing? Or leave halway like he did at the White House interviews by the 911 Commission?
1. Ben Nelson has one of the highest American Conservative Union ratings of any Democrat in the U.S. Senate.
2. Nebraska was one of only three states (Utah and Wyoming being the others) in which George W. Bush won every county in the 2000 election.
3. I believe Nebraska was the only state where Bill Clinton never paid a visit during his two terms in the White House.
Hagel’s ACU ratings in the 80s. Dirty RINO!
McCain’s ACU ratings in the 80s. Dirty RINO!
Ron Paul’s ACU Ratings in the 80s. Iranian RINO!
Joe Lieberman’s ACU rating is 18. True Patriot!
Fred Thompson’s ACU ratings in the 80s. Second coming of Reagan!
Freepers can’t make up their minds on what a RINO is and what a real conservative is.
Kerrey had HSU on his BOARD of Directors!! Geesh....what IDIOTS would elect such an IDIOT?
He called Bill Clinton "an unusually good liar" once - I guess that's what passes for conservatism in the MSM's eyes.
ACU ratings are not always accurate(for example, Mel Martinez scored a 100). It’s usually McCain and his buddy Chafee(who isn’t there anymore) and Specter(who wouldn’t be there if not for the RNC)who got in the way of anything conservative.
ACU ratings are a measurement on whether a politican meets the bear minimum requirements of being a conservative.
True, but Gene Taylor(MS) regularly scores in the 60s, and he made an @ss of himself on TV yesterday, just like everyone else in his party.
Good question.
Good question.
Ah... yes....replacing Hillary.
Why not? Look how well the come-back thing worked for Mondale?
Hsu will be his campaign finance chairman.
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