http://rightsfield.com/2007/02/02/dumb-hagel-coverage/ 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 http://rightsfield.com/2007/02/02/dumb-hagel-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-306 The Right’s Field » More Dumb Hagel Coverage Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:43:01 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/02/02/dumb-hagel-coverage/#comment-306 [...] Dumb Hagel Coverage [...] [...] Dumb Hagel Coverage [...]

]]> http://rightsfield.com/2007/02/02/dumb-hagel-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Politics: 2008 HQ » Blog Archive » Matt Browner Hamlin: Ending the “Chuck Hagel Is a Maverick” Meme Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:29:30 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/02/02/dumb-hagel-coverage/#comment-305 [...] Enough. Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is not a maverick. He is not a rebel. He is not a moderate. He is not John McCain circa 2000. He does not benefit from a strong “Draft Hagel” movement. He is not a Republican Democrats can like. To borrow the words of Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback, we need to take the “Chuck Hagel is a maverick” meme behind a barn and kill it with a dull axe. [...] [...] Enough. Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is not a maverick. He is not a rebel. He is not a moderate. He is not John McCain circa 2000. He does not benefit from a strong “Draft Hagel” movement. He is not a Republican Democrats can like. To borrow the words of Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback, we need to take the “Chuck Hagel is a maverick” meme behind a barn and kill it with a dull axe. [...]

]]> http://rightsfield.com/2007/02/02/dumb-hagel-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Emboldened » Blog Archive » Ending the “Chuck Hagel Is A Maverick” Meme Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:17:57 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/02/02/dumb-hagel-coverage/#comment-304 [...] Enough. Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is not a maverick. He is not a rebel. He is not a moderate. He is not John McCain circa 2000. He does not benefit from a strong “Draft Hagel” movement. He is not a Republican Democrats can like. To borrow the words of Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback, we need to take the “Chuck Hagel is a maverick” meme behind a barn and kill it with a dull axe [...] [...] Enough. Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is not a maverick. He is not a rebel. He is not a moderate. He is not John McCain circa 2000. He does not benefit from a strong “Draft Hagel” movement. He is not a Republican Democrats can like. To borrow the words of Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback, we need to take the “Chuck Hagel is a maverick” meme behind a barn and kill it with a dull axe [...]

]]> http://rightsfield.com/2007/02/02/dumb-hagel-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Emboldened » Blog Archive » More Dumb Hagel Coverage Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:02:41 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/02/02/dumb-hagel-coverage/#comment-300 [...] Cillizza offers plenty of support to the notion that Hagel is out of touch with the Republican base on Iraq, but, like Lorie Boyd, says nothing - nothing - about how Hagel’s ideology aligns with the Republican base on issues other than Iraq. He says nothing of how he thinks Hagel is out of step with Republican voters on taxes, social issues, and defense issues. He votes the right way for Republicans, so I’d really have liked to hear where Cillizza is basing this conclusion. We are asked to simply trust that because Hagel differs with Bush on Iraq he is wholly cut from the cloth of a maverick. [...] [...] Cillizza offers plenty of support to the notion that Hagel is out of touch with the Republican base on Iraq, but, like Lorie Boyd, says nothing – nothing – about how Hagel’s ideology aligns with the Republican base on issues other than Iraq. He says nothing of how he thinks Hagel is out of step with Republican voters on taxes, social issues, and defense issues. He votes the right way for Republicans, so I’d really have liked to hear where Cillizza is basing this conclusion. We are asked to simply trust that because Hagel differs with Bush on Iraq he is wholly cut from the cloth of a maverick. [...]

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