[Rembrandt_fan]

Hagel, Snowe...the usual suspects. But what I don't understand is this: Snowe, representing Maine, has a traditionally liberal, blue state constituency, so she leans left on most issues. Her position, then, is understandable, if possibly insincere and unprincipled, but Hagel's from Nebraska. Is Nebraska some seething hotbed of liberal sentiment, a Wisconsin without the cheese, or is Hagel just being Hagel? I simply don't know enough about Nebraskan politics to figure it out.

[You Dirty Rats]

I simply don't know enough about Nebraskan politics to figure it out.

Many of the plains and mountain states voted in high percentages for GWB, but send one or two 'rats to the Senate. I don't get that one, either.

[familyop]

"...but Hagel's from Nebraska. Is Nebraska some seething hotbed of liberal sentiment, a Wisconsin without the cheese, or is Hagel just being Hagel? I simply don't know enough about Nebraskan politics to figure it out."

I don't know, either. But when I was younger, someone from Nebraska was promoting the National Socialist White People's Party where I worked. And and older woman who was neighbor showed us a swastika that her Nebraska mother (WWII era, wore large, brown dresses, and no sons in the war) gave to her. But that's probably not a very representative example of Hagel's constituents.

[NorCalRepub]

.....it is just that Hagel is totally opposed to everything about this war I think...many here on FR call him a RINO but if you look at his voting record, he is more conservative then 70% or so of the Repub Senators...in fact he is very conservative on most issues....but not on this war for sure....or how it has been run.....