Gary Hart's primary recent interest has been opposing the Iraq War specifically (and neocon/imperial foreign policy in general).
He is one of the dozen or so Democrats & disaffected Republicans who have stated they may consider supporting an independent candidacy, (perhaps Bloomberg/Nunn or Bloomberg/Hagel), depending on the party candidates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/29/AR2007122901476_pf.html It looks like at least some of this group may end up endorsing the Democratic ticket if Obama keeps winning.
Where do the others, particulary the Republican dissenters, stand on this?
Hagel, in particular, has worked with & spoken highly of Obama.
Danforth (an ordained Episcopal priest & former Republican Senator who abruptly resigned his appointment as UN ambassador about the administration began pushing for more confrontational stance in the UN regarding Syria & Iran) has written passionately against the influence of the religious right in "Faith and Politics: How the 'Moral Values' Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092701708.htmlSome have suggested that Bloomberg, et al, would find disappointment in HRC's defeat in Iowa, as that would defuse the incentive for a Bloomberg independent candidacy.
But Bloomberg insists he would rather not run, and Hart's article would suggest that the bipartisan group which includes several prominent former Republican office-holders may end up endorsing a Democratic ticket headed by Obama.
With Obama picking up the support of Dennis Kucinich in Iowa, as well as Dodd & Biden, Obama's candidacy looks more and more like our winning chemistry in 2006, where we received the overwhelming support of independents and other disaffected former GOP voters.
Has anyone seen statements by any of the others of the Bloomberg group (Nunn, Robb, Boren, Brock, Danforth, Whitman, Cohen, Dixon, Graham, Leach, Eisenhower, Abshire, Perkins)?