…so goes Chuck Hagel. I forgot to mention in my McCain thing today that Chuck Hagel naturally said much the same thing about Kerry’s defense votes as McCain did. Chuck Hagel is like McCain’s little brother constantly tagging along, hoping he can be like his older sibling. Asked on This Week if he agreed with the Bush line that Kerry is weak on defense, Hagel said: “No, I don’t and I, I tend to agree with John McCain on this. The facts just don’t measure, the rhetoric, I mean, you can take a guy like John Kerry, who’s been in the Senate for 19 years, and go through that voting record. You can take it with Biden, Hagel, any of us, and pick out different, different votes and then try to manufacture something around that.”