Sound familiar?... Rove fired by Bush Sr for leaking to Novak.

[Mugsy]

From "Yes Weekly" in Greensboro, NC.
http://www.yesweekly.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=15&ArticleID=389&TM=29538.14

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Allegations of unscrupulous behavior have followed Rove in a particularly distasteful wake since 1970, when at 19 he lifted a stack of letterhead stationary from the Chicago campaign headquarters of Alan Dixon, a Democrat running for Illinois state treasurer. The pages resurfaced in the city’s red light district bearing invitations to Dixon’s offices for “free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing.”

Rove got pinched for this one only because he admitted his role in what he later called “a political prank.”

Rove was also accused of dirty tricks when he took over the College Republicans in the Nixon era, an accusation that resulted in an investigation by the chairman of the Republican National Committee who subsequently cleared Rove of all charges and then promptly hired him. That man was George HW Bush, who later fired him during his second presidential campaign because he suspected that he had leaked information to a newspaper columnist named Robert Novak.

Any of this sound familiar?

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While working under Segretti Rove probably played a role in the attempt to color 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, a decorated pilot in WWII, as a left-wing ‘peacenik.’ Déjà vu?

[bushisanidiot]

1. Sounds like Novak and Rove are buddies and have done this before

n/t

[petepillow]

2. aww what a team

why must bad things not happen to bad people?

[annabanana]

5. button - "I'm a Source, not a Target"

[deutsey]

3. Has this been brought up by any MSM journalists?

[shelley806]

4. No.....that's what REALLY gets me...All of these 'dirty tricks' were

well known during both previous elections. I'll try to find a bookmarked link about Rove (I think in Atlantic Monthly)...The man is such scum.

[jazzjunkysue]

6. Did anyone send this to Olberman? I've never heard this before.

[Mugsy]

8. It was news to me too. Funny.

I'm old enough to should have known this, yet it wasn't until Mark Fiore mentioned it in his latest cartoon that I looked it up.

Suprized the heck outta me. Not surprised that no one in the MSM has mentioned it though. Seems like it would be a significant point right about now, don't cha think?

[havocmom]

7. Rove probably has it worked out so if he goes down on this one, he takes

Poppy's boy with him. He likes that 'fuck 'em' sort of rough play, doesn't he?