Chuck Hagel’s Facing a Strong Primary Challenge

Pro Amnesty Pro Terrorists Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is in trouble in Nebraska.

In a race that has received scant national attention, Jon Bruning, Nebraska’s 38-year-old Republican attorney general, is challenging Hagel’s bid for re-election to the Senate–by attacking him from the right. Bruning charges that Hagel’s stance on Iraq, as well as his criticism of the president and members of his cabinet (see: Alberto Gonzales), put the incumbent out of touch with the majority of Nebraskans.
How substantive a threat does Bruning pose? No reliable independent sounding has yet been taken. According to a poll recently commissioned by Bruning’s office, he finds himself 9 percentage points ahead of Hagel in a head-to-head contest. A study undertaken by Nebraska’s Democratic Party has Hagel’s “positive” rating at 51 percent compared to Bruning’s 61.

We need to get rid of these Republicans in the Senate who ran as conservatives but then turn Ted Kennedy liberal when they’re in Washington.