FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:
The U.S. needs independent leadership and maybe even a new political party.
Senator Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican and one of the very few class acts in Washington, has a new book out, “America: Our Next Chapter.” Hagel writes, “In the current impasse, an independent candidate for the presidency, or a bipartisan unity ticket… could be appealing to Americans.”
Hagel, who is a Vietnam veteran, also suggests that the war in Iraq might be remembered as one of the five biggest blunders in all of history. He says that the invasion 5 years ago was “the triumph of the so-called neoconservative ideology, as well as Bush administration arrogance and incompetence.”
Hagel says he held one of the Senate’s strongest records of support for President Bush, but his standing as a Republican was still doubted because of his opposition to the administration’s foreign policy – one he sees as “reckless” and “divorced from a strategic context.”
Hagel announced last year that he wouldn’t run for a third Senate term or seek the Republican nomination for president. His name was often mentioned as a potential running mate for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on an independent presidential ticket. But last month, Bloomberg said he wouldn’t run.
Posted: March 20, 2008 at 04:35 PM ET
The U.S. needs independent leadership and maybe even a new political party.
Senator Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican and one of the very few class acts in Washington, has a new book out, “America: Our Next Chapter.” Hagel writes, “In the current impasse, an independent candidate for the presidency, or a bipartisan unity ticket… could be appealing to Americans.”
Hagel, who is a Vietnam veteran, also suggests that the war in Iraq might be remembered as one of the five biggest blunders in all of history. He says that the invasion 5 years ago was “the triumph of the so-called neoconservative ideology, as well as Bush administration arrogance and incompetence.”
Hagel says he held one of the Senate’s strongest records of support for President Bush, but his standing as a Republican was still doubted because of his opposition to the administration’s foreign policy – one he sees as “reckless” and “divorced from a strategic context.”
Hagel announced last year that he wouldn’t run for a third Senate term or seek the Republican nomination for president. His name was often mentioned as a potential running mate for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on an independent presidential ticket. But last month, Bloomberg said he wouldn’t run.
Posted: March 20, 2008 at 04:35 PM ET
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