Yeah, you heard it right.

“The Republican Party has been “hijacked” and led away from its core values, Chuck Hagel, the Republican Senator from Nebraska, said Sunday on Face The Nation.

Hagel, who is still considering his options for the 2008 race, left open the possibility of becoming an independent and sharing a ticket with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

“I am not happy with the Republican Party today,” Hagel said. “It’s been hijacked by a group of single-minded almost isolationists, insulationists, power-projectors.”

Hagel said he will not decide if he is going to run for president until late this summer. He did not say if he would run as a Republican or as an independent. Asked by Bob Schieffer if independent candidates would be good for the political system, Hagel said they would be.

“What America will be looking at and wanting and demanding is honest, competent, accountable leadership,” he said. “We need some new, fresh, independent ideas to lead this country forward.”

Let’s make this clear. Hagel has never been a died in the wool Republican and if he was disillusioned when he “joined” the Republican party it’s because he was delusional.

Saying that, let it be known that we have had it with the infidels such as Hagel, and for that matter Mayor Bloomberg. As it’s said, “Off their heads”. Dead issue.

Like I said in a previous post, it’s time to stop letting the liberal media define who is a good candidate for our party in 2008. One thing to begin, if C-BS likes him, forget it.