Did Carville tip Bush off to Kerry's strategy, thus stealing the election for the Republicans?

So perhaps it's a little tin-foil-hatty of me, but this is troubling.

 On page 344, Woodward describes the doings at the White House in the early morning hours of Wednesday, the day after the '04 election.

Apparently, Kerry had decided not to concede. There were 250,000 outstanding ballots in Ohio.

In fact, he considers going to Ohio to camp out with his voters until there is a recount. This is the last thing the White House needs, especially after Florida 2000.

So what happened?

James Carville gets on the phone with his wife, Mary Matalin, who is at the White House with Bush.

"Carville told her he had some inside news. The Kerry campaign was going to challenge the provisional ballots in Ohio -- perhaps up to 250,000 of them. 'I don't agree with it, Carville said. I'm just telling you that's what they're talking about.'

"Matalin went to Cheney to report...You better tell the President Cheney told her."

Matalin does, advising Bush that "somebody in authority needed to get in touch with J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican Secretary of State in Ohio who would be in charge of any challenge to the provisional votes." An SOS goes out to Blackwell. "

At minimum, he blocked the recounts, as was his power.  At maximum(speculation)  that any sources who could help Kerry were hushed up sufficienctly so that Kerry couldn't find any whistleblowers to come out about the fraud.

So tin-foil-hatty, but LOGICAL.  I'm in a sci-fi-suspense mood today.  But onwards!

And am I the only one who feels  betrayed by Bob Woodward?  He was the ULTIMATE ethical journalist hero-I read All the Presidents Men and was RIVETED by what the Washington Post went through to expose Nixon... And now?  He's the ultimate corrupt secretive "in the club" journalist who won't expose these liars because it would endanger his privilege!  Remember how HE TOO was in on the Plamegate leak, but didn't come out and join Fitzgeralds investigation?  He's an accomplice in this, just the same as anyone in the cabinet, and I'm ashamed to have once admired him.  Oh well, I suppose we'll all succumb to the establishment someday...

But who REALLY was hurt by this?  Who really was hurt by Kerry's loss?

 I'll tell you who! 

Soldiers who have DIED since 2004. 

 Katrina Victims who were failed by their government. 

People who've lost their jobs and livelihoods because of this recession. 

 The people of other nations who have been alienated by our foreign policy. 

Those who have been scammed by Medicare Reform.

Those who pay taxes to feed Bush's swollen and mis-prioritized budget.

Those workers who trusted our government to ensure their safety in the mines, who died because we would barely slap the hands of money-hungry companies.

Those people who CARE about the environment.

People who care about their rights as Americans, to privacy, to fair trial, to NOT BE TORTURED.

Oh my how low Bush has dragged us... because of a tip off, a lie, a faulty swarm of voting machines, and a media monopoly.

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