Good Riddance
GOP Surrender-enthusiast Chuck Hagel packing in it. What would you expect from a quitter?
Hagel plans to announce that “he will not run for re-election and that he does not intend to be a candidate for any office in 2008,” said one person, who asked not to be named.
Hagel has scheduled a press conference for 10 a.m. Monday at the Omaha Press Club.
According to one person interviewed, Hagel told Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Friday morning that he had decided to retire. Hagel’s staff learned of his decision that afternoon.
The North Platte native earned national recognition as perhaps the most vocal, at times angry, GOP critic of the Bush administration’s Iraq policies.
His outspokenness on Iraq and other key issues, including Social Security and foreign policy, fueled national interest in Hagel as he flirted with a possible presidential bid.
His national profile reached its zenith in March, when he headed to Omaha to hold a press conference on his political future.
But amid wide speculation that he was leaning toward a White House run, Hagel announced that he would disclose his plans later in the year.
Article doesn’t offer any hint about whether there are personal reasons, some crisis, or if he just figured out that a surrender platform isn’t likely to fly on the Republican side when even the Dems are getting skittish about it. You know, when this war issue is slipping away from them, and a majority of Americans think we can win.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:53 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2007
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September 8th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
[F]ueled national interest in Hagel as he flirted with a possible presidential bid
Right, “fueled national interest” in every newsroom from New York to Seattle.
SMG
September 8th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Forgive me for being cynical, but I can’t help wondering who’s got the goods on him, and what have they got.
September 8th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
One RINO gone. One can only hope that Arlen Specter will be next.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
IIRC, a credible candidate had announced a primary challenge.