Chuck Hagel is considering a Unity Aught Eight run.

He said that if he ran he would seek the Republican nomination. Yet he’s also talking up Unity08. That’s a plan by a bipartisan group of political operatives to draft a bipartisan presidential ticket on the Internet and offer voters an alternative to the Democratic and Republican candidates next year.

“I think it’s a very intriguing enterprise,” Hagel said. He said most Americans are disenchanted with the major political parties.

Maybe Republicans aren’t crazy about Chuck Hagel and don’t want to vote for him, but I have a tremendously hard time believing that any significant group of Americans will vote for a presidential ticket because they are civil and not because of any ideological reasoning. Civility is a red-herring. A political party devoid of any political ideology is the last thing America needs when you look at the problems that will be facing this country after Bush’s term expires.

I really hope that Hagel either jumps into the Republican field or announces that he will not be running for president. Unity Aught Eight is about the vanity of the candidates who would consider themselves as the personal savior of American politics.

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