{"id":6328,"date":"2008-08-27T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2008-08-27T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:38:40","slug":"novak-lieberman-would-be-a-%e2%80%98disaster%e2%80%99-as-mccain%e2%80%99s-vp-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6328","title":{"rendered":"Novak: Lieberman Would Be a &#8216;Disaster&#8217; As McCain&#8217;s VP Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Novak, the rightwing columnist who treasonously revealed the clandestine identity of CIA WMD investigator Valerie Plame, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, but recently returned to producing short squibs for his syndicate, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/08\/27\/bob-novak-writes-in-to-ad_n_121724.html\">the latest<\/a> on Joe Lieberman&#8217;s chances of being named as John McCain&#8217;s VP on Friday:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"> Reports of strong support within John McCain&#8217;s presidential campaign for Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman as the Republican candidate for vice president are not a fairy tale. Influential McCain backers, plus McCain himself, would pick the pro-choice liberal from Connecticut if they thought they could get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>But they can&#8217;t get away with it &#8212; and this has been made clear to McCain by none other than Joe Lieberman himself.<\/p>\n<p>Lieberman surely doesn&#8217;t know that much about Republican politics, but he has close Republican friends. One of them prevailed on Lieberman to tell McCain that a McCain-Lieberman ticket would be a disaster for all concerned, and especially for the GOP. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>We should be so lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Novak, the rightwing columnist who treasonously revealed the clandestine identity of CIA WMD investigator Valerie Plame, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, but recently returned to producing short squibs for his syndicate, including the latest on Joe Lieberman&#8217;s chances of being named as John McCain&#8217;s VP on Friday: Reports of strong support within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,122],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cia-leak","category-election-2008"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}