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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday that Republican opposition to defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel can be traced back to the former Republican senator's attacks on George W. Bush over the Iraq War.
McCain, who voted to delay a final vote on Hagel's confirmation, told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that Hagel's old colleagues haven't forgotten his criticism of former President Bush.
"To be honest with you, Neil, it goes back to-- there's a lot of ill will towards Senator Hagel because when he was a Republican, he attacked President Bush mercilessly, at one point said he was the worst president since Herbert Hoover, said the surge was the worst blunder since the Vietnam War, which is nonsense, and was anti his own party and people," McCain said.
"People don't forget that," McCain continued. "You can disagree, but if you're disagreeable, people don't forget that."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/14/john-mccain-chuck-hagel_n_2690006.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)freckleface
(57 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Old-Man-Yelling-At-Clouds McCain has never let facts and common sense stand in the way of a good, festering grudge, has he?
I suspect the thing that really fries his wrinkly old ass isn't just that Hagel opposed Bush, but that Hagel was proved right about Iraq.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)Grow the hell up.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Apparently, you're suffering from Alzheimer's and have totally forgotten how he smeared your family to win South Carolina in 2000. Get your head checked, old man.
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)..that's who Obama nominated.
I think it's really that simple.