Madfloridian's Journal - Mary Matalin was at the WH with George and Dick. Dear hubby called her.

And Bob Woodward was there and wrote about it in his book, page 344 I think. It was election time. James Carville, Mary's hubby, was apparently at the Kerry campaign. He passes on crucial information. He leaked it to his wife. He got on the phone to Mary, and told her things she did not need to know.

James Carville Leaked 2004 Kerry Ohio Strategy To White House

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

So Kerry decides to fight. 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.

See, Mary tells Georgie that someone needs to contact J. Kenneth in Ohio. That is using insider info from the Kerry campaign given her by her hubby.

All this time Mary was being considered for RNC chairman. Her hubby was tied to the Kerry campaign and leaked info.

Considering that his wife is being floated for RNC Chair, a decision which I am sure Carville supports, maybe everything the Democratic Party is doing will be immediately leaked to the RNC. And hey, since Carville thinks DNC chair is all about getting large donors to him from rich DLC-types, which Carville admired so much about Ken Mehlman, maybe he would even approve of Ken Mehlman becoming DNC chair. I hear he is available.

See, now it appears he might be officially joining the Hillary campaign. That has been the point many of us were making today.

Caution is wise.