Is there anything Chuck Hagel won’t say?
It seems like only yesterday that people who cited Hagel’s past views and comments were accused of practicing a politics of slur.
Will Democrats as quickly rubbish Rachel Maddow’s scouring of the record as they did Brett Stephens’?
Adding to the entertainment: while Hagel’s statements on Israel, Iran, and terrorist groups do seem to reveal the man’s inner thinking, Hagel’s statements on abortion – extreme as they are – look less heartfelt, and more cynical. Yet it’s the insincere words that seem likely to do the nominee the most harm, because (having changed his mind on abortion once already), the nominee cannot easily dismiss them as just something he said to woo Republican primary voters back in Nebraska. Not “easily” because a confession of insincerity about abortion views in 1995 and 1996 will raise the question: if this is a man who 17 years ago said things he didn’t believe to win an election, isn’t there equal risk he’ll today say things he doesn’t believe to gain confirmation?
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Is there any stupidity that David Frump won’t embrace?
platypus on January 9, 2013 at 3:24 PM
Wow this guy sure has a thing for Hagel.
It’s almost like David Frum only cares about Israel or something.
Dack Thrombosis on January 9, 2013 at 3:30 PM
No fan of Hagel, but how much credibility does David Frum have with anyone? Whatever happened to the New Majority?
ddrintn on January 9, 2013 at 3:30 PM
With the sharp creases crowd, lots.
platypus on January 9, 2013 at 3:32 PM
So he’s kinda like Frum’s buddy, Charlie “No Labels” Crist?
DRPrice on January 9, 2013 at 3:39 PM
I’m betting he wouldn’t say ‘Bibi’s a chochem’. Or ‘Oy vey who ate all the verkakte matzos’.
CorporatePiggy on January 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM
“No”, to another glass of bourbon?
JohnGalt23 on January 9, 2013 at 4:00 PM
He won’t say, “Sorry for what I said before and how I acted; I’m an ass.”
RoadRunner on January 9, 2013 at 4:00 PM
Hagel is everything Frum should love in a Republican: willing to kick the GOP in the shins, willing to cross a sitting Republican President on policy, willing to cross the aisle to work with Democrats, including serving in the cabinet of a Democratic President.
Doesn’t taste so good when “bipartisanship” crosses one of your redlines, does it, David?
DRPrice on January 9, 2013 at 4:00 PM
This? From David Frum? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
besser tot als rot on January 9, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Hagel is much less anti-Israel than Obama, so not really sure what the big deal is.
BocaJuniors on January 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM