CHuck Hagel went off the deep end a long time ago.
p.s. This really is the year for US Senators, isn’t it? 3 of 4 major party nominees are US Senators and we don’t know the 4th yet b/c McCain hasn’t made his choice (but it doesn’t look like it will be another Senator). Still, can’t think of another election cycle that had 3 of 4 nominees from the US Senate. Well, 1960 could count, I guess, since JFK and LBJ were both Senators and Nixon as VP was nominal head of the Senate.... (but the VP is not really a “member” of the Senate and anyway has sitting VP he had a real executive branch role). btw, in 1960 the Nixon VP running mate was Henry Cabot Lodge who was a former Senator and so that was truly the last time a US Presidential race was so dominated by the US Senate backgrounds of the nominees.
BTW, Nixon himself was a senator for two years, ‘51-’52.