Rumor: Hagel will leave GOP to run for prez as Independent in 2008.

[BurtWorm]

Leave NOW, Chuck! :patriot:


http://buzz.nationalreview.com/074102.asp

Chuck Hagel, (I-NE)?

Ankle Biting Pundits passes along their potentially huge scoop that Republican Senator Chuck Hagel may be considering running as an independent in 2008:



Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is privately meeting with his top advisors and political contributors to discuss the prospects of an independent bid for the White House in 2008, a high level GOP source told me this morning. …


At issue is the concern among Hagel higher-ups that the Nebraska Senator will not be able to outshine Sen. John McCain in a GOP primary. . … Should Senator John McCain win the GOP primary, Hagel would likely endorse his friend (and maybe even angle for a #2 spot on an “all maverick” ticket.) If McCain were to lose and the GOP to nominate a right-winger, Hagel would try to tap into the disaffected McCain primary vote in a three-way general election.


“When we hear Hagel say things like ‘Iraq is looking like Vietnam,’ that’s him testing the independent waters,” my source told me. “He knows the media loves a self-loathing Republican. And all the accolades showered on Jim Jeffords for bailing on the GOP was not lost on Chuck Hagel.”

[stillcool]

1. a rose by any other name?

http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx

[goforit]

2. The founder of Diebold voting machines that solidified Bush as prez.

Think twice America.

[andyhappy]

5. he will split the republican vote!

sounds great to me!

Go Ross Perot....errr...I mean, chuck!

[OnionPatch]

7. Yes, this man cannot be trusted!

Please, DUers, if you don't know Hagel and his background with the voting machines, please google or search here or whatever. He is practically the father of paperless fraud machines, I mean, voting machines.

On the other hand, if he runs as an independent, maybe he will split the GOP vote and that would be a good thing.

[ps1074]

3. Not. Gonna. Happen.

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[TwilightZone]

4. Don't buy it.

This article basically insinuates that Hagel is a moderate. He isn't - he's very conservative, and there's no reason for him to leave the party.

One stance on one issue does not a moderate (or a liberal or conservative, for that matter) make.

[obreaslan]

6. Could this possibly split the GOP vote though?

Just hoping really. :shrug:

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. ES&S will surely help get him elected.

:eyes: I don't trust that man as far as I can throw him, BUT it would be so SWEEEEET if the repukes LOST A SENATE SEAT...not that he wouldn't vote repuke like he does now, but maybe as an Independent, he'd feel more 'Independent' to vote his conscience? Do it, Chuck! Just do it!