Rove tried to kill Lieberman VP pick

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

Source: Politico.com

Republican strategist Karl Rove called Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) late last week and urged him to contact Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to withdraw his name from vice presidential consideration, according to three sources familiar with the conversation.

Lieberman dismissed the request, these sources agreed.

Lieberman “laughed at the suggestion and certainly did not call on it,” said one source familiar with the details.

Read more: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=0725B138-18FE-70B2-A8C1D776948E7AF6

[JI7]

1. "tried to" ? does this mean he was picked ?

[orleans]

24. i googled and can't find anything at a quick glance. n/t

[connecticut yankee]

30. Then he would make history

as the first person to lose as a Vice Presidential candidate for both parties.


:rofl:

[DangerousRhythm]

36. Yeah that is very curious wording.

Oh, please let it be true, invisible guy in the sky. :rofl:

[Fenris]

2. For better or (mostly) worse, no one tells Lieberman what to do.

He's so egomaniacal and possessed with his belief that he's the true Democrat that he will take orders from no one.

[Mojambo]

3. Wow. Maybe he DID pick him.

The corporate media is going to have to work unbelievably hard to keep this from sinking the McCain candidacy.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. It was pretty risky to laugh at Rove's "suggestion" as Rove made sure that Joe

kept his Senate seat in 2006. Joe didn't recognize Rove calling in his marker.

[ksimons]

5. Is Lieberman the pick? See Ad I found

Just saw this ad floating around the internet - maybe it leaked out early? Who knows. This is not a made up ad - it has been also documented on YouTube as of today.

Possible?

[InkAddict]

10. I saw it two days ago on Murdock's MySpace banner. n/t

[Fearless]

6. So if George... John McCain doesn't represent the McCain campaign...

And clearly the McCain campaign can't be trusted to represent the McCain campaign representing McCain and Rove is clearly not having much success forcing the campaign to bend to his will as LIEberman was such a threat, then who the hell is running the circus???

[Old and In the Way]

7. This is really interesting.

If Joe is McCain's #2, there's no chance that Joe won't fight to keep it. He's irrelevant in the Senate, more so next year.

But Rove can't like this pick....this won't help McCain's chances at all. It didn't help Gore in 2000 in FL and that was when he was a Democrat in good standing.

What a photogenic couple McCain and Lieberman will make. Can you imagine how the Republican rank-and-file will just get fired up supporting these 2? I can't blame Rove for trying to torpedo this stinker.

[Frisbee]

8. Joe would be a terrible pick!

God I hope he's the pick!

[merwin]

27. He was the vice presidential prick in 2000.

Maybe he'll be the same prick this time around.

[Lucky 13]

9. oh please oh please oh please pick Joe Lieberman.

It would make McCain so horribly unpalatable to so many people

[undeterred]

11. Joe Lieberman seems to genuinely like him.

And nobody else does.

[RoccoR5955]

12. Please, please, please

George, I mean John, Pick LIEberman.

Geeze, Biden has me doing the Freudian slip too!

[Politicalboi]

13. I thought MaGoo

Had that mole removed a few weeks ago. I guess it grew back.

[davidinalameda]

21. that's a big ass tumor

not just a mole

[NoodleyAppendage]

14. Sources "familiar with the conversation" would mean people in either snake pit of sh*t.

This non-story smacks of manufactured news. We have leaked source material (supposedly) from Rove or Lieberman's people...well, whooptie shit.

J

[unkachuck]

15. see joe....

....nobody likes you....nobody trusts a Judas....

[curious one]

16. Urged him? How? Lieberman is the greatest VP ever for McLose. Best way to go down the tubes.

[Frank Booth]

17. No!! McCain can't pick Lieberman!! We're doomed! We're doomed!

:scared:

[dave29]

18. please don't ever believe anything you read about Karl Rove

please.

[Cronus Protagonist]

19. He should have called McCain, not Lieberman

After all, if you don't want someone to be hired, you call the boss, not the candidate... The fact that this happened, if it did truly happen, shows that McCain is rejecting the GOP's advice and doing his "maverick" thing again, which is really, truly, more like petulance than leadership.

If so, hey, we will all benefit from it. We can run ads with Lieberman kissing Bush and McCain hugging him, hip to hip, and a montage of planes crashing into the sea with The Village People in the background - In the navy.... you can sail the seven seas...

hehe

[Piewhacket]

20. Rove tried to kill Lieberman?

OMG... at last...
Someone please CITIZEN ARREST ROVE for attempted murder of a Lieberman.


but remember, we are not a lynch mob, we must have order!

so someone first check first to see if attempted murder of
a Lieberman is actually against the law.

OK then, now who's got the rope?

[Bette Noir]

22. That's how I read the headline, too.

Must have been wishful thinking.

Please, Mr. McCain, pick Joe Lieberman as your running mate. He's your bestest friend, and we all want you to be happy.

[yardwork]

23. bushco is desperate to get Mittens in the White House one way or the other.

[Psephos]

25. McCain won't pick Lieberman for V.P.

He isn't that stupid. He'd lose the right-most half of his base.

Because of the furor about Obama passing over HRC, McCain's best move would be to team up with Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska.

Then he'd plug Lieberman in for Secretary of State, which would actually be politically astute.

It's all just fluff in the wind, anyway. Obama '08 and '12.

[BlueInPhilly]

35. Sara Palin?

I believe the GILF is too busy having babies.

[L. Coyote]

26. Are they desperate for attention this week? Pick Don Young or Ted Stevens!

Stick with your good friends, John!

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. Damn your eyes, Rove! You let John ("Did you know I was a P.O.W.?") pick who he wants, you hear?

Huggybody and Kissyface, together again for the first time! Whatta dream team! If John ("Did you know I was a P.O.W.?") wants Joe for his vice presidential prick, who are any of us to complain? (Hee hee hee hee hee hee.....) :evilgrin:

[Canuckistanian]

37. Ew, that's right. They both snuggled up to the Chimp.

At least there are no pics of McCain smooching the drunken frat boy.

[Loudmxr]

29. Lieberman would be the best choice for McCain

All this "but he's a Jew" thing would offend the fundies won't matter that much. Romney would be worse cause he is a Mormon and no one likes him. Pawenty can't speak. Crist .. to gay.

Lieberman would prevent a challenge from the far right to dump McCain should he get elected. (not being born an American) And he can spew war talk like few others. Maybe FedEx girl. :shrug:

[justiceischeap]

33. Crist... too gay?

Gotta problem with gays?

[Marrah_G]

34. He is saying the repukes would find Crist to gay

[Doremus]

31. If true, how ironic. Imagine hard core Repugs trying to win by wooing the librul center! LOL!

[eShirl]

32. Turd Blossom is a (Republican) Party Pooper

[djg21]

38. I hope it is Lieberman!

Hopefully he can be forced to resign from the Senate to run, McCain will lose, and Lieberman will be done in terms of a political future.

He wouldn't resign to run as Gore's running mate, and my understanding is that many in CT were really upset with the assh---. If he tries this again, he likely couldn't get reelected.

Good riddance to the schmuck. And, I would love to see the "Loserman" moniker coined by the Repukes make a return performance.

[racaulk]

39. Of course Lieberman didn't back down! This is his last chance at political relevance.

He knows that the people of Connecticut won't be foolish enough to send him back to the Senate in 2012, and he knows that the Dems in the Senate won't have much to do with him after their likely increased majority from this election. The only way he remains politically relevant at all would be to be McCain's VP or to have some other post in a McCain administration, which is why he has bent over backwards to kiss McCain's ass ever since it appeared likely that he would win the GOP nomination.

When Obama wins in November (and I believe he will), I can't wait for that little toad to fade away into obscurity like he deserves. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[scheming daemons]

40. at first glance, I thought your subject was "Rove tried to kill Lieberman"

:evilgrin: