{"id":8160,"date":"2006-08-09T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8160.html"},"modified":"2006-08-09T13:18:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:18:30","slug":"rove-bush-offer-to-help-lieberman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/rove-bush-offer-to-help-lieberman\/","title":{"rendered":"Rove, Bush offer to help Lieberman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News ran <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theworldnewser\/2006\/08\/george_stephano.html\">an item<\/a> this morning highlighting a very odd offer of political support for Joe Lieberman. (<a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/rove_calls_lieb.html\">via Hotline<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a close Lieberman adviser, the President&#8217;s political guru, [tag]Karl Rove[\/tag], has reached out to the [tag]Lieberman[\/tag] camp with a message straight from the Oval Office: &#8220;The [tag]boss[\/tag] wants to [tag]help[\/tag]. [tag]Whatever we can do[\/tag], we will do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This hasn&#8217;t been confirmed by the campaign or anyone else, so I&#8217;m going to hold off on rushing to judgment, but what struck me as the most interesting part of the ABC report wasn&#8217;t the last seven words, but rather, the first six.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, if Rove really did call the Lieberman campaign, on the president&#8217;s behalf, offering campaign support, it&#8217;s a pretty huge deal, but this leak came to ABC by way of &#8220;a close Lieberman advisor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the Lieberman campaign wants to get the word out that the senator is considering accepting help from the [tag]Bush[\/tag] [tag]White House[\/tag]. Even if it&#8217;s not true, the fact that the Lieberman team wants people to believe it speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Lieberman&#8217;s outreach to [tag]Connecticut[\/tag] [tag]Republicans[\/tag] has formally begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News ran an item this morning highlighting a very odd offer of political support for Joe Lieberman. (via Hotline) According to a close Lieberman adviser, the President&#8217;s political guru, [tag]Karl Rove[\/tag], has reached out to the [tag]Lieberman[\/tag] camp with a message straight from the Oval Office: &#8220;The [tag]boss[\/tag] wants to [tag]help[\/tag]. [tag]Whatever we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}