DO YOU AGREE WITH CHUCK HAGEL THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS LOST IT'S WAY?

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political : DO YOU AGREE WITH CHUCK HAGEL THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS LOST IT'S WAY?

[+] serious ballot by cranky
ACTIVE Mon Aug 21, 06 - Sat May 16, 09
Sen. Hagel Says GOP Has Lost Its Way

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have lost their way when it comes to many core GOP principles and may be in jeopardy heading into the fall elections, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. says. Hagel, a possible presidential candidate in 2008, said Sunday that the GOP today is very different party from the one when he first voted Republican .

"First time I voted was in 1968 on top of a tank in the Mekong Delta," said Hagel, a Vietnam veteran. "I voted a straight Republican ticket. The reason I did is because I believe in the Republican philosophy of governance. It's not what it used to be. I don't think it's the same today."

Hagel asked: "Where is the fiscal responsibility of the party I joined in '68? Where is the international engagement of the party I joined - fair, free trade, individual responsibility, not building a bigger government, but building a smaller government?"

His frustration does not lead him to think Democrats offer a better alternative. But Hagel wants to see the GOP return to its basic beliefs.

"I think we've lost our way," Hagel said. "And I think the Republicans are going to be in some jeopardy for that and will be held accountable."

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Do you agree with Senator Hagel, that the Republican Party has lost it's way?

Yes, the GOP needs to return to it's core values
No, the GOP under Bush is doing just fine

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Voted : Yes, the GOP needs to return to it's core values
No question. Traditional values such as 'small government,' fiscal responsibility, and aversion to avoidable foreign entanglements (e.g., empire building) have been long absent.

And other claimed attributes (e.g., integrity, honesty, reverence of Constitution, reverenc eof Law, *real* patriotism, etc.) have been diametrically opposite for over 5 years.

by Cathexis on Mon Aug 21, 06 10:11am [+]

Voted : Yes, the GOP needs to return to it's core values
Yes I agree the Republican party of today has become the Democrats of the 1930's and the Democrats have become European socialist party.Real Conservatives would close the damn borders and mend the deficit.

by Corrupt on Mon Aug 21, 06 10:12am [+]

Corrupt -- What?!? 2006 democrats ... as Socialists?!? That bunch of Bush- enabling, poll- pandering wimps who believes they have to perpetually move right towards soem perceived 'center' in order to be viable?!?

You are falling victim to the Rightwing Buzz Machine, my friend. Today's Democrats are very closely aligned with the 1970 Republican Party -- very few are anywhere near Socialist.

by Cathexis on Mon Aug 21, 06 10:47am [+]

And today's Republican party ... probably closest to the corrupt parties of America's Gilded Age.

by Cathexis on Mon Aug 21, 06 10:47am [+]

Cathexis the head of the DNC is Howard Dean,only Lenin and Stalin are to the left of him.There is not a single moderate in the DNC ranks Liberman was the last one.

by Corrupt on Mon Aug 21, 06 12:50pm [+]

Howard Dean is not Socialist Left -- that is the Rightwing meme. His entire stint as Governor of Vermont (?) was on a plank of fiscal responsibility.

The Media has told us Dean is Left. The fact is ... he isn't. He's generally in the Center.

Also, Lieberman was not a moderate. Taking the Far Right and the Moderates and splitting the difference does not make the political 'center.'

by Cathexis on Mon Aug 21, 06 1:06pm [+]

We all need to look at actual positions -- not just take the perceptions of pundits.

by Cathexis on Mon Aug 21, 06 1:07pm [+]

Lieberman is no moderate. If he was, the Republican Party wouldn't be embracing him like a long, lost love. The GOP treats its own moderates like pariahs.

by cranky on Mon Aug 21, 06 1:50pm [+]

Voted : Yes, the GOP needs to return to it's core values
And the Democratic Party needs to be right in step with them in doing the same thing.

by Truthseeker013 on Mon Aug 21, 06 2:01pm [+]

No. Not really. I mean there are those like Hagel, Specter, or Snowe, Chafee, and a couple of others that aren't all that Republican to start with.

Their comments and ideas aren't taken anymore seriously by the Repubs than Zell Miller's or Lieberman's are.

by Noblese_Oblige on Mon Aug 21, 06 6:49pm [+]

To lose one's way presumes that one had it at some point. Hence, the Republicans have not lost their way.

by margaret123 on Mon Aug 21, 06 8:25pm [+]

Voted : Yes, the GOP needs to return to it's core values
"And the Democratic Party needs to be right in step with them in doing the same thing."

Probably the comment I agree with most out of all of 'em.

by himself809 on Mon Aug 21, 06 9:54pm [+]

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