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In reply to the discussion: Barney Frank 'Strongly Opposes' Chuck Hagel As Defense Secretary [View all]dsc
(52,147 posts)18. No one made Goldwater do it
I would be willing to bet just about any sum of money that he had no change in heart at all prior to the possibility of being appointed Secretary of Defense came up.
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Hagel's comment were some 14 years ago. You stand by everything you stood for some 14 years ago?
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#3
Was he party to the cause? Was he petitioned to do so and refused? Or should he just have stepped
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#14
Goldwater? LOL. I'm not THAT old nor care to study the politics of 'Goldwater'. eom
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#20
Now you are going back 20 years? We are done. Have a Happy and Enlightened New Year. eom
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#25
You dispute the fact that Frank 'used' a prostitute...and 'got away with it?"...of course, yes...he
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#10
A vote some 14 years ago. Positions change. You the same person today you were 14 years ago? eom
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#15
I can't find any info on ENDA or on who specifically voted for it. All I see on Wikipedia
TwilightGardener
Dec 2012
#17
Done but Barney must not forget his transgressions in the past before casting stones at another. nt
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#8
Jeezus, the man has to be the only conservative in history who has ever apologized
TwilightGardener
Dec 2012
#11
I'm sorry, I read that apology and I can't find a thing wrong with it.
TwilightGardener
Dec 2012
#22
He did not vote for an amendment against marriage discrimination. It never
TwilightGardener
Dec 2012
#27