Reply #27: Karen Hughes told him and then left town, she wanted to make sure...

[McCamy Taylor]

...that everyone knew that she was not part of Karl Rove's fix when Votergate erupted as a scandal. She is one smart cookie.

The timing of her exodus from DC was wierd to say the least. If she really thought W had lost, end of story, she would have stayed to console him, she being one of the mother figures he likes to surround himself with. But she made a point of telling him that the exit polls showed that he had lost, she made sure that everyone knew that she had told him that he had lost, and then she left DC in advance of the surprise which she probably suspected Karl Rove was going to pull out of his computer command central.

I wonder what kind of relationship Rove and Hughes have and, if questioned under oath, whether she would lie to protect Rove. I kind of doubt that she would commit perjury to protect Rove, bet she would to protect W.