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GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel to announce political plans
CNN ^
| March 8 07
| CNN
Posted on 03/08/2007 8:26:46 AM PST by freedomdefender
Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is expected to announce his decision on a presidential race Monday in his home state of Nebraska.
Hagel's advisers would not confirm that the two-term senator planned to announce his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, but Hagel said in January he would make a decision about a presidential run soon.
Hagel, 60, also is scheduled to appear next week at a forum for presidential hopefuls put on by the International Association of Firefighters.
Hagel, a decorated infantry sergeant in Vietnam, supported the 2002 congressional resolution that authorized the invasion of Iraq the following year, but he has since become an outspoken critic of the war.
...Other than his break with the party on Iraq, Hagel has an an orthodox GOP voting record. He supported the Bush tax cuts in 2001, has a perfect score on abortion issues from the National Right to Life Committee and backed efforts to open part of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; electionpresident; hagel
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To: freedomdefender
Switching parties, I hope.
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:27:31 AM PST
by
TommyDale
(What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
To: freedomdefender
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:28:23 AM PST
by
mborman
To: freedomdefender
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:28:55 AM PST
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: freedomdefender
I'd trade him for Lieberman straight-up.
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:29:13 AM PST
by
AU72
To: freedomdefender
Dead in the "starting gate"...?
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:29:33 AM PST
by
VRWCTexan
(History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
To: TommyDale
To: freedomdefender
That gave me the biggest laugh of the year! Plan, plan? Hah!
To: freedomdefender
He can announce all he wants, no way in hell he gets the GOP nomination. He can switch parties, I'll be happy.
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:31:12 AM PST
by
MaestroLC
("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
To: AU72
I'd trade him for Lieberman straight-up. LOL, it would be just about a straight-across trade.
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:31:53 AM PST
by
Scourge of God
(Remember, liberals, 'baaa' means NO!)
To: freedomdefender
We have an ex Omaha mayor Dawb whose said on TV last night he thinks it's wonderful that Nebraska has someone who could be president...I always thought he was smarter than that...Hagel is an Embarrassment..
Another thing I heard was that Hagel has one of the most conservative voting records in the senate..anyone confirm that...and if so why does hagel do everything he can to alienate the base???
To: TommyDale
The sound of lead balloons passing over.
Lifted to altitude in the first place by flying pigs.
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:33:03 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(If you cannot bring yourself to condemn someone, at least make the praise as faint as possible.)
To: VRWCTexan
Hagel will be the darling of the MSM, Russert, George Stephanoplous, etc.
He will be getting lots of free, positive publicity from the Washington Post, as well.
He has no chance of winning the nomination, but will move the debate on Iraq decidedly to the left.
To: freedomdefender
Prediction:
His news conference will be a showcase of his cranky, nasty nature.
It will not be at all positive but full of negative statements about the current Republican President and statements that only he can save the Republic.
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:33:16 AM PST
by
msnimje
(People are crossing party lines to support Giuliani - even some Republicans support him.)
To: TommyDale
Switching parties, I hope.Beat me to it.
To: freedomdefender
Hagel announces political plans... and crickets were heard the nation over.
To: freedomdefender
Hagel needs to be redeployed to the Democrat Party.
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:33:58 AM PST
by
Republican Red
(Chris Matthews would put on diapers and drive 900 miles to abduct Cheney.)
To: TommyDale
Having his tires rotated ?
To: freedomdefender
"Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is expected to announce his decision on a presidential race Monday in his home state of Nebraska."
YAWN
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:34:15 AM PST
by
rwa265
To: alloysteel
That's the sound of deaf mute crickets with no legs.
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posted on
03/08/2007 8:34:50 AM PST
by
TommyDale
(What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
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