Damaged Goods: Hagel's Brand Suffers from Nomination Battle

Breitbart writes, Chuck Hagel, stuck in an arduous confirmation battle to become Secretary of State, has notably pivoted away from his more controversial foreign policy positions—a move that appears to have validated Senate Republicans' fierce opposition to a reelected Barack Obama. So says Haviv Rettig Gur, a columnist at the Times of Israel. In a piece titled "Hagel's Damaged Brand," he argues that the GOP has scored a political victory even if the former Republican senator from Nebraska is confirmed.  Hagel, he writes, "has spent the past few months disavowing—with suspiciously convenient timing—the…

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