Any word on why the MSM loves this guy, and why so early? My bias-alert meter is pegged.
For the same reason they like McCain. He's a saddle burr.
He's anti-Bush, and anti-conservative. The same as his mentor, McCain. And you know what the media thinks of McCain.
Because he's completely reliable as a Bush basher, even more so than McCain. McCain actually agrees with the President every once in a while. Not Hagel. However, he doesn't have 1/100 the of the personality McCain does, and there's no way in Hell he gets the GOP nomination.
Now that Colin Powell is leaving public office, we're seeing a few glints of his real opinion. He made reference to "Rolodex Rangers" in an interview last week.
He has it right. There are a number of GOPers who loathe Bush, and can be counted on to show up at a moment's notice with an anti-admin. message. They're on the Rolodex for every Lib. talk show.
Hagel is prominent among them.
We're going to have 4 years of MSM campaigns for the GOP nomination, and all of the candidates will be "Rolodex Rangers". McCain and Hagel are the two most reliable so far.