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Updated: 12:00 AM ET July 7, 2009 Palin's Plan By Roger Stone It was 1962. Richard Nixon had had enough. Enough of being called "Tricky Dick, the man no one would buy a used car from." Enough of the elitist derision that had come his way since the Hiss case. He had had enough of the liberal media who consistently held him to a higher standard than his Democratic opponents and poked fun at his lack of sophistication - he being the son of a grocer. So Nixon blew. He announced the end of his career in seeking elective office;...

<p>Roger Stone . . . believes the only way Sarah Palin could remain a viable presidential candidate in 2012 or beyond was to leave the governorship of Alaska.</p> <p>“First of all, her administration is mired down by these nuisance lawsuits and ethics complaints from every garden variety left-wing nut paralyzing the state government,” Stone says, noting Palin is governor at a time when the drop in oil prices is contracting her state economy.</p>

Political analyst and Republican Party strategist Roger Stone tells Newsmax.TV that he disagrees with the chattering class in Washington and believes the only way Sarah Palin could remain a viable presidential candidate in 2012 or beyond was to leave the governorship of Alaska. ““First of all, her administration is mired down by these nuisance lawsuits and ethics complaints from every garden variety left-wing nut paralyzing the state government,” Stone says, noting Palin is governor at a time when the drop in oil prices is contracting her state economy. “There’s no plus in Sarah Palin staying as governor of Alaska.” Stone...

Political analyst and commentator Roger Stone blames Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s shaky start on not understanding his role as chairman of all Republicans. In an exclusive Newsmax interview, Stone chastises Steele for suggesting he'd work against GOP rogue Senators Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine in the upcoming 2010 primaries because of their votes for the “so-called stimulus” bill. “It is not the national chairman’s job to weed people out of the party,” Stone tells Newsmax TV. “It’s his job to bring people into the party. The National Chairman’s role is to...

NBC talking head Chris Matthews has confirmed to former Reagan White House Speechwriter Peggy Noonan that he will challenge Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter in 2010 because he believes Specter will be too old to be effective. Matthews told Noonan that Pennsylvania voters view him as a "local guy." Chris Matthews may look in the mirror and see a US Senator but I see nothing other than a self important windbag. Matthews, known best for slagging his fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton and his abusive nature with underlings at MSNBC, has also been known to comb his hair for hours before his...

Smear: LIE: Rush Limbaugh says a tape exists of Michelle Obama using the word "whitey" from the pulpit of Trinity United... Lie: Proven GOP sleazemeister Roger Stone says he has "credible evidence that some indelible record exists" of a tape of Michelle Obama using the term "whitey."

ON RIGHT NOW! "Including references to "Whitey". There has been a race for Clinton operatives to aquire this tape, but I believe this tape is already in the hands of a major network." This JUST aired minutes ago on "Geraldo"... Geraldo prefaced by saying that Roger Stone was the same person who first exposed Spitzer's relationship with hookers.

Four months before a hooker scandal brought down Eliot Spitzer, controversial Republican operative Roger Stone tipped the FBI to the governor's penchant for prostitutes. The information Stone provided was very detailed - right down to the calf-length black socks Spitzer allegedly wore while bedding his paid paramours. In a letter sent to the FBI on Nov. 19, Stone alleged that Spitzer "used the service of high-priced call girls" while in Florida.

As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth...referring to the acronym of his spanking-new anti-Hillary 527 group,...

That was fast. In a just-released statement, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno called the Roger Stone phone call flap "a distraction from the real issues - the abuse of government power, political espionage and a cover-up of information," but said the consultant has agreed to "resign and end his relationship with us at our request." "We are not going to let this incident become a distraction or to be used as an excuse to hamper people from getting at the truth," Bruno said. The investigations into the Executive Chamber are continuing. We hope that both District Attorney Soares and the...

Roger Stone is one of America's most noted political strategists with a fabled career stretching back to his days working for Richard Nixon's campaign and later as a veteran political strategist for Ronald Reagan's Presidential campaigns in 1980 and 1984. He was an advisor to Nixon in his post-presidential years, serving as Nixon's man in Washington. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called him the" keeper of the Nixon flame." Stone offers a surprising assessment of the political landscape. He says that if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, the Republicans will see a huge turnout on election day -...

This is running in tomorrow's Philadelphia Daily News. It is a joint effort of Campaign Extra! and ace Daily News reporter Dave Davies (who's also the substitute host of NPR's "Fresh Air.") We wanted to get this online before the weekend officially starts: Lurking behind those mysterious John Kerry-Arlen Specter yard signs in Northeast Philadelphia is yet another spectre: Notorious national GOP consultant Roger Stone. A political operative with some ties to Stone told the Daily News last night that the consultant — who chaired Pennsylvania GOP senator Specter’s abortive 1996 presidential bid — had been actively recruiting people to...

In this PM Edition of the DUmmie FUnnies, we have served up a full buffet of DUmmie paranoia. Now normally when a DUmmie goes on an overly long rant, I snip out only a portion of it for your perusal. However, today’s DUmmie feast is so rich in paranoia, that I am quoting in full (in the colored font) the leadoff post of one “Dems Will Win,” a DUmmie whose rantings exceed even the typical delusional visions on that site. So grab yourself a place at the table and dine on roast brain of DUmmie, served with large dollops of...

In this morning edition of the Dummie Funnies we put the Dummies back on the couch and analyze their continuing obsession with the forged TANG Memos. The analysis and commentary of your humble shrink is in the [brackets]: It comes down to this, DID BUSH disobey a lawful legal order? Did Bush report to his unit in Alabama? Did bush receive preferential treatment? Now that the CBS flap has occured all thsoe quesetions will NEVER be answered. [Did you lose your mind to TANG obsession? Did you report this to your Shrink? Did you receive lithium treatment? DAMN CBS for...

In today’s PM edition of the DUmmie FUnnies the DUmmies, not having learned from past experience after getting burned on the Memogate forgeries, are now pinning their hopes on the possibility that Roger Stone was the forger of the documents. Methinks that the DUmmie Coyote is about to be outsmarted by the Roadrunner YET Again. Read on and laugh as the DUmmies work themselves into a frenzy on the topic of whether Roger Stone is the forger. My own humble remarks are in the [brackets]. Could this be bait and switch? another plant to throw people off the right trail?...

The hot rumor in New York political circles has Roger Stone, the longtime GOP activist, as the source for Dan Rather's dubious Texas Air National Guard "memos." The irony would be delicious, since Rather became famous confronting President Nixon, in whose service a very young Stone became associated with political "dirty tricks." Reached at his Florida home, Stone had no comment.

Senator Hatch: Provoking A Split Within Conservatism…Again Paul Weyrich Monday, Apr. 05, 2004 The year was 1976. Ronald Reagan had lost the GOP's presidential nomination to Gerald Ford. The prospects for conservative victories in Congress were not very promising. But I was sure I had found a rising star. He was articulate. He was charismatic. He claimed to be a principled conservative. I thought of him as a potential presidential candidate. As chairman of the Free Congress PAC, I backed him at the state convention (In his state you have to get a certain percentage of the convention vote to...

Black leaders in the US and leading Democrats are outraged at revelations that a candidate in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Al Sharpton, 49, is being subsidised by a right-wing Republican campaign consultant notorious for "dirty tricks". The Reverend Sharpton, a New York preacher and rabble-rouser who has no church or stipend of his own, has been living in a $6000-a-month ($A7700) apartment on Madison Avenue in Manhattan and running up bills as high as $7000 for stays of a few days each in hotels while on the road. His organisation, the Harlem-based National Action Network, has received...

A GOP trickster rents Al Sharpton The pompadoured preacher's alliance with a right-wing operative may delight conservatives but should disgust his constituents. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Joe Conason Feb. 3, 2004 | In the twilight zone of political chicanery, operatives often cooperate across ideological lines. Whenever their interests coincide, seasoned mischief-makers can set aside superficial disagreements to harass a common enemy. To anyone familiar with the buccaneering careers of Al Sharpton and Roger Stone, their convergence in the 2004 presidential campaign is not quite as "unlikely" as the New York Times...

Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton. Though Stone and Sharpton have tried to reduce their alliance to a curiosity, suggesting that all they do is talk occasionally, a Voice investigation has documented an extraordinary array of connections. Stone played a pivotal role in putting together Sharpton's pending application for federal matching funds, getting dollars in critical states from family members and political allies at odds with everything...