Chuckwagon
Is this what it's come to, even in the wake of the 2006 battering of the GOP, that people try to figure out a dream Democratic ticket with a Republican? Hagel's stance on the Iraq War isn't noble or particularly wise -- it's common sense! And if the war was going well (whatever that means), he'd be on board with it like all the others. Are people so cowed that stating the obvious is what passes for political courage?
The American Conservative Union gives him a lifetime rating of 86 (putting him ahead of McCain and Bill Frist, who are themselves politically Pleistocene). Forget Third Way appeasement -- maybe Joe Lieberman would like to run with Hagel. Maybe Webb, or some other collaborator. Whatever.
We barely have two parties as it is! Let's not blur them together, please! Instead, let the Democrats run on a new New Deal, a real agenda that recognizes that national security is best achieved not by wars of opportunity abroad, but by opportunities for Americans at home, at school, at work. Through investing in a better America in a multitude of ways -- our success and security as a nation is better served through repairing our reputation abroad, and that means making America a better place, versus being the world's (corrupt) policeman.
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