QUOTE: "If Kerry hadn't conceded, the right wingers would have screamed bloody murder. But what else is new?"
Well, and while "playing" "conspiracy theorist", I'd say that the answer to that rhetorically indented question of Mr. Wasserman's is or at least may possibly be that the two most likely candidates to win the 2004 US presidential election - Bush and Kerry - were two Bonesmen - "Order of Skull & Bones" - facing or - pretending, anyway - confronting each other. And the allegiance the members of S&B members have amongst each other is stronger, given a considerably higher priority than duty to nation, honesty, fairness, etc.
As you have already guessed, I certainly don't know the above fact(s) actually had anything to do with the 2004 election; however, there's certainly at least reason to carefully consider the possibility that this indeed was a present element.