Has Anyone Got Answer From Carville re: Tip To Wife About Ohio Ballots?

[Blackhatjack]

Carville has always appeared to a Democratic loyalist. But if the assertion in Woodward's book is true, it explains a lot about the odd handling of ballots in Ohio by Blackwell.

I just wonder if Carville has ducked quesions about this so far.

Would like to hear his response.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. I don't understand why what he did made any difference.

I don't see how he was disclosing any damaging information and I don't understand why his tip to the repukes would have made Kerry decide not to challenge the vote.

Am I misunderstanding how this worked?

[jumpoffdaplanet]

4. I'm with you on this

It doesn't make any sense. So what if Carville mentioned something to the wife, who passed it to cheney.

If I remember, at the time, everyone assumed Kerry would challenge Ohio seeing how fucked up the vote was that day.

There wouldn't be any surprise to knowing for sure.

I'm wondering if this is a way to get past the fact that Kerry dropped the ball that day.

Lots of people, including myself, were furious at Kerry for running out on the voters that day.

And now I hear Kerry is going to run in 2008.

They have to do something to get the bad taste of Kerry's running away that day.

Maybe they decided to use Woodward to pass on a story to lets Kerry off the hook.

Now, the story will be, "no, kerry didn't run and hide, he was forced to run away."

I'm not buying it. And I'm not voting for Kerry again.

[Erika]

5. Kerry, like Gore, probably got the most votes

and both should have been president. Since Kerry could not prove voter fraud because of paperless ballots, he let it go.

Very few of democrats believed the W actually won.

[Erika]

6. Kerry didn't run and hide in Nam

W did. Remember that. Kerry served two tours. W served none.

[jumpoffdaplanet]

9. Didn't say anything about his service there.

But he did run away from the fight that Nov 8.

Pretending Carville had anything to do with it is just another cover-up.

And cover-ups are not the act of someone who wants to be president.

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[H2O Man]

8. No. you're not.

The book doesn't imply that Carville's gossip did anything to hurt Kerry. Rather, it shows what took place to create tensions within the Bush campaign regarding when to announce that they thought they had won. Woodward has other information on some of the issues that Kerry had the option of contesting. He also makes clear that, until early evening, the reports from across the country had indicated to the Bush folks that they were going to lose.

That said, a person who questions the results, and who thinks that Kerry had an Ohio option, will not be disappointed reading this book. Anyone who looks for it to indicate Carville was in any sense a factor in anything but being a loud mouth may be disappointed. I am surprised this is being pushed as an issue.

[SHRED]

2. I've never trusted him

[Starlight]

3. ITA