George Stephanopoulos: Can Karl (Rove) help Joe?

[Bluebear]

According to a close Lieberman adviser, the President's political guru, Karl Rove, has reached out to the Lieberman camp with a message straight from the Oval Office: "The boss wants to help. Whatever we can do, we will do."

But in a year where even some Republican candidates are running away from the President on the campaign trail, does this offer have any value to Lieberman? Still smarting from all that coverage of "the kiss" at last year's State of the Union, the Lieberman camp isn't looking for an explicit endorsement. That could create more problems than it solves.

The White House might help Lieberman by putting the kibosh on any move to replace the weak Republican candidate, Alan Schlesinger, with a stronger candidate.

And it might be able to convince Schlesinger to drop out of the race and endorse Lieberman in the final week or two, when it's too late for another candidate to fill the GOP slot. A quiet White House effort to steer some money in Lieberman's direction is another possibility.

http://abcnews.blogs.com/theworldnewser/

[SteppingRazor]

1. Grist for the Lamont campaign n/t

[jackstraw45]

2. "The boss wants to help." - Lieberman is Bush's man....

Amazing.

[MissWaverly]

3. why don't they have him run as the Republican candidate

since he is their man

[smokey nj]

6. Because if he's "independent" it's easier to perpetuate the myth

that the party is split over his candidacy. He is the repuke choice.

[MissWaverly]

8. yes, I see, and they can always withdraw support at the last

minute, and then see him fall through the cracks after maximum damage, kind of like the
Iraq strategy only here in America

[Virginia Dare]

4. If this proves to be true....

I would hope that would be the long overdue final blow for any Democrats out there still holding on to support for him.

[Bluebear]

5. I will bet it is true and the "help" started before yesterday

A la the "hacked" website claim.

[Zero Division]

7. Perhaps Cheney can come out to CT to support Lieberman....

Thanks for the "help", Karl!
:rofl: