Who Is Funding the Campaign Against Secretary Of Defense Nominee Chuck Hagel

The blitz against Mr. Hagel is of a sort that has generally been reserved for elections and some Supreme Court nominations.

Secret Donors Finance Fight Against Hagel -- New York Times

A brand new conservative group calling itself Americans for a Strong Defense and financed by anonymous donors is running advertisements urging Democratic senators in five states to vote against Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee to be secretary of defense, saying he would make the United States “a weaker country.”

Another freshly minted and anonymously backed organization, Use Your Mandate, which presents itself as a liberal gay rights group but purchases its television time through a prominent Republican firm, is attacking Mr. Hagel as “anti-Gay,” “anti-woman” and “anti-Israel” in ads and mailers.

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My Comment: The Republicans are actually years behind in this type of politics. George Soros and others have been doing this for years.  

I know that Chuck Hagel will be nominated, but President Obama's political capital and Chuck Hagel's credibility are taking a hit ..... and that is the whole point of this campaign.