Chuck Hagel, Anti-Republican Republican

David Boaz, at the Cato Institute, objected to my calling former Republican senator Chuck Hagel an “anti-Republican Republican,” last night on Fox.

Boaz cites several votes in which then-Senator Hagel supported Bush administration policies and several others where Hagel did not. He also points out that Hagel had a lifetime ACU rating of 84 and good grades from the National Taxpayers Union. He asks: “But would Hayes say it’s not a Republican voting record?”