Comments on: Hagel: GOP “Needs to Get Back to What It Once Stood For” http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/ Holding Our Noses So You Don't Have To Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:35:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Right’s Field » Hagel to Announce Plans on Monday http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/comment-page-1/#comment-14783 The Right’s Field » Hagel to Announce Plans on Monday Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:18:44 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/#comment-14783 [...] Rumors have it that Hagel is calling it quits but should he announce his candidacy for president, do you think the media and the GOP base will treat Hagel like they do Ron Paul, vis-a-vis the downfall of the Republican Party? [...] [...] Rumors have it that Hagel is calling it quits but should he announce his candidacy for president, do you think the media and the GOP base will treat Hagel like they do Ron Paul, vis-a-vis the downfall of the Republican Party? [...]

]]> By: The Right’s Field » Hagel Punts Announcement Again http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/comment-page-1/#comment-747 The Right’s Field » Hagel Punts Announcement Again Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:18:45 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/#comment-747 [...] With Chuck Hagel, what you see in his Iraq war opposition is not what you get with on every other issue. He is not a Republican Democrats can love and he makes no efforts to hide the direction he wants to take the Republican Party and America in. [...] [...] With Chuck Hagel, what you see in his Iraq war opposition is not what you get with on every other issue. He is not a Republican Democrats can love and he makes no efforts to hide the direction he wants to take the Republican Party and America in. [...]

]]> By: The Right’s Field » Ending the “Chuck Hagel Is A Maverick” Meme http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/comment-page-1/#comment-307 The Right’s Field » Ending the “Chuck Hagel Is A Maverick” Meme Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:43:28 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/#comment-307 [...] Hagel is certainly occupying an important political space by opposing the Bush/McCain plan to escalate the war in Iraq. He is vocally and visibly against sending tens of thousands of more American troops into the meat grinder of Iraq. Doing so gives other Republicans cover to take similar positions. Hagel is embracing a correct position on Iraq, but it is not based on his ideology and it tells us nothing about what Chuck Hagel believes about how government should work and what policies we should be deploying to make our country a better place. Opposing the president as a member of the Republican Party is a rarity today and I can appreciate the pleasure Democrats feel when Bush is getting whipped by a Republican. Let’s be clear: Iraq is one issue and Chuck Hagel is a lock-step conservative on every other issue Republicans care about. [...] [...] Hagel is certainly occupying an important political space by opposing the Bush/McCain plan to escalate the war in Iraq. He is vocally and visibly against sending tens of thousands of more American troops into the meat grinder of Iraq. Doing so gives other Republicans cover to take similar positions. Hagel is embracing a correct position on Iraq, but it is not based on his ideology and it tells us nothing about what Chuck Hagel believes about how government should work and what policies we should be deploying to make our country a better place. Opposing the president as a member of the Republican Party is a rarity today and I can appreciate the pleasure Democrats feel when Bush is getting whipped by a Republican. Let’s be clear: Iraq is one issue and Chuck Hagel is a lock-step conservative on every other issue Republicans care about. [...]

]]> By: Matt Browner Hamlin http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Matt Browner Hamlin Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:52:03 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/#comment-286 Well, Kurt you're right to point out that the GOP has deliberately pushed these narratives. But they succeeded because the media bought them hook, line, and sinker - and continues to buy GOP narratives every day. Were the media to push back on the spin the GOP is feeding them, America would not today think of Chuck Hagel as a centrist. Well, Kurt you’re right to point out that the GOP has deliberately pushed these narratives. But they succeeded because the media bought them hook, line, and sinker – and continues to buy GOP narratives every day.

Were the media to push back on the spin the GOP is feeding them, America would not today think of Chuck Hagel as a centrist.

]]> By: Kurt Williams http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Kurt Williams Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:06:18 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/#comment-285 It's not the media narratives that have set our opinions, it was the far right guys lead by Bush, who have convinced millions of Americans that they are centrists. Remember his 2000 campaign on compassionate conservatism? It clearly was their goal to pull the country to the right and when a guy like Hagel is described as a centrist, you have the proof that they have succeeded. It’s not the media narratives that have set our opinions, it was the far right guys lead by Bush, who have convinced millions of Americans that they are centrists. Remember his 2000 campaign on compassionate conservatism? It clearly was their goal to pull the country to the right and when a guy like Hagel is described as a centrist, you have the proof that they have succeeded.

]]> By: Matt Browner Hamlin http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Matt Browner Hamlin Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:55:42 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/01/21/hagel-gop-needs-to-get-back-to-what-it-once-stood-for/#comment-188 Really interesting post Matt. I had no idea Hagel's voting record was so conservative and so loyal to the GOP. Just another instantiation of how media narratives set our opinion and the facts usually stay pretty far out of it. Really interesting post Matt. I had no idea Hagel’s voting record was so conservative and so loyal to the GOP. Just another instantiation of how media narratives set our opinion and the facts usually stay pretty far out of it.

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