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Vendaval -> Rove and Lieberman (9/3/2008 12:29:43 PM)
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I have been wondering about the behind the scenes negotiations in the choosing of the Republican VP. This is one part of that process.
"Rove tried to kill Lieberman VP pick"By Jonathan Martin
8/28/08, 12:28 pm EST
"Republican strategist Karl Rove called Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) late last week and urged him to contact John McCain 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 [McCain] on it,” said one source familiar with the details.
“Rove called Lieberman,” recounted a second source. “Lieberman told him he would not make that call.”
Rove did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rove, President Bush’s former top campaign adviser and arguably the most prominent political operative of the past generation, has no formal role in McCain’s campaign. But he knows much of the Arizona senator’s high command and has been offering informal advice, both over the phone and in his position as a Fox News analyst, since McCain wrapped up the GOP nomination."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12922.html
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