Word is out that Senator Chuck Hagel, one of the very, very few sane and moderate Republicans left on Capitol Hill, will neither seek re-election to the Senate nor run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
Yes, there were many issues in which I was not always happy with Hagel. But compare him to the Frist-George Allen-Sam Brownback-Rick Santorum-Trent Lott-Ted Stevens (and so on, ad infinitum) crew - nuts so rancid that no self-respecting or even rabid squirrel would touch them on its hungriest day - and Hagel was a saint.
While Hagel certainly isn't gone yet, he will be missed. Too many of the moderates - Jim Jeffords and Lincoln Chafee - have departed and what passes for a GOP politician these days is downright scary.
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