Max Cleland: Next Week ‘The Bullshit’ Stops On Hagel Nomination

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50. My words are here to read. Your inference is as well.

In my view, a person who is a bigot toward one group is just a bigot. I also don't think vicious hate mongering has a shelf life, a date after which it becomes irrelevant. Hagel is a Republican, that Party during his tenure was an anti minority group, many would say they still are and they'd be right. So your claim that the GOP is not anti minority is not something I can agree with at all. History says otherwise.
Hagel's anti gay votes were in the US Senate for 12 years. Look them up if you are interested, I was around then and I disliked Hagel then so I don't need a list. I have no idea what he's said about Jewish people, so I could not provide that history either. Of course, I also never mentioned it because I don't know anything about it. You brought it up all on your own, for some reason. I have no idea why you'd ask me about that, I've not mentioned it. I don't know anything about it.

I'm not going to support a Republican who has long opposed and attacked my community. That's just not going to happen. The very last time Hagel had any political power, he used it at every turn to vote against and speak against not only gay rights, but against gay people participating in our own damn government. That's not a big deal to you, because he was not attacking your right to participate in government. I got that.