One would like to think that Hagel might get a little break for having soldiered with them for so long, but we have long known that the Republicans even feast on their own.
Your entire states' Senate delegation voted against Kerry. Out of 3 who voted against him. What a bunch of mavericks. Ted Cruz is all kinds of crazy and he's only been in the Senate for a few weeks and has some Jupiter moon-sized balls to talk about Kerry being "anti military," when we all know Mr. Cruz's own sterling military service record. Ops, wait.....
What the Republicans seem to discovered - first in 2010, and then throughout the rest of Obama's first term - is that the politics of permanent conflict pays dividends. Dividends in the form of political donations, volunteer support, media exposure, etc
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Well - I think there are two schools of thought running now through the Republican party, on "winning the future": One school thinks that they need to focus on their base, get them more riled up, more active, more willing to fund campaigns, than they've already been by the maker/taker theme, the anti-PPACA campaign, the "Thanks, Obama!" theme, etc. The other thinks they need to broaden the base and appeal to a wider diversity of voters by taking more moderate positions. (I think the latter also implicitly acknowledges the wealthy Republican "base"'s interests - I think there is real risk to the GOP in embracing the moralistically-derived fantasy economics that the TP prefers, since it so obviously is bad for business - and wealthy people know this
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The problem isn't with his stances, it's that his stances are "flexible" and that he didn't even know things about our foreign policy that he should have known.
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