Promise to only serve two years is a promise to leave at a time when the USA needs level headed Republicans. Chuck Hagel should not leave and certainly not forever !
George Walker Bush is an atrocious president, anyone who stood against him needs to be commended. We don't need any more Bush's in the White House or anywhere else ! Let them all get a real job for once !
...Mr. Hagel, who turns 61 next month, made millions in the 1980s as a founder of Vanguard Cellular Systems, a manufacturer of mobile phones. Before being elected in 1996, he was president of McCarthy & Company, an investment bank in Omaha. Mr. Hagel is a Vietnam veteran and one of the most prominent Republican voices on military affairs, although in recent months he often caused headaches for his party with his outspoken criticism of the war in Iraq. He also voted to support recent legislation sponsored by the Democrats that would have set a timetable for withdrawing troops; that measure failed.
Jon Bruning, the Nebraska attorney general and a former state lawmaker, had already declared that he would challenge Mr. Hagel in the primary next year, citing Mr. Hagel’s break with the Republicans and the Bush administration over the war.
Mike Johanns, President Bush’s secretary of agriculture and a former governor of Nebraska, has also been eyeing a possible run for Mr. Hagel’s seat.
On the Democratic side, other names that have been floated as possible candidates are Mike Fahey, the mayor of Omaha, and Scott Kleeb, a Yale-educated rancher who ran unsuccessfully last year for Congress....
The Democratic National Committee needs to pursue the states least likely to ever vote for a Democrat. The South is in economic shambles except for federal military bases and corrupt politicians such as Lindsay Graham. He was one of the organizers to the defeat of Habeas Corpus. These states are breeding grounds for the worst the USA has to offer in the way of legislative agendas. The people of South Carolina don't know what real legislators are that can help generate an economy that matters, such as pioneering alternative energies and their manufacture or a new breed of transportation such as high speed magnetic rail with strategically located manufacturing plants or a revolutionary new electric car that steals the hearts of the newest generations of drivers. The South is in desperate need of an economy that puts people back to work in well paying jobs. What's the DNC waiting for?
Oh, I also absolutely believe, Jeb Bush is some of the reason for Hagels' resignation from the political scene. Chuck should be at the forefront of any presidential candidates nominee for Vice President if he isn't running himself. But, I guarantee you the one candidate at the top of many Republican nominees lists is Jeb Bush. No doubt in my mind. I though Jebby took a cushy job as a well paid health insurance company executive? No surprise here.
In my opinion, Chuck Hagel is 100 times more a presidential candidate than Jeb Bush could ever be and Georgie knows it.
Sep. 06, 2007 JOHN O CONNOR
Posted on 09/07/2007 7:06:23 AM PDT by Between the Lines
A political group with close ties to Gov. Mark Sanford is bringing in former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to help raise money to influence State House elections next year, according to an e-mail sent to supporters Wednesday.
The e-mail, sent by Sanford chief of staff Tom Davis, said Bush’s Oct. 16 visit to Greenville, Columbia and Charleston will help raise money for Reform SC to inform voters “through television, direct mailings, radio” about lawmakers. Reform SC is headed by Chad Walldorf, a former Sanford staffer.
All 170 members of the General Assembly are up for election in 2008...
Sanford plans to take on lawmakers - even in his own party (click here)
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will attend fundraisers across South Carolina next month to help Governor Mark Sanford take on fellow Republican legislators he considers unfriendly to his agenda....
Sanford ready to take on legislatorsFundraisers to kick off reform campaign (click here)
By Robert Behre
The Post and Courier
Friday, September 7, 2007
Gov. Mark Sanford's campaign against state lawmakers who have frustrated his reform agenda is cranking up, but some say his strategy is a risky one.
Next month, Sanford and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush plan to attend three fundraisers across the state to raise money for ReformSC, a new political organization backing the governor.
The organization and those who support it intend to pressure lawmakers to back Sanford and help find candidates to
run against those who refuse, said Chad Walldorf, a ReformSC board member and Sanford's former deputy chief of staff.
