Rollins Does It Again
Knifes GOP Nominee Apparent By Roger Stone With the predictability of the sunrise, the sometime-Republican consultant Ed Rollins knifed his own Party’s nominee on the record. Rollins, who managed Ronald Reagan’s cake-walk reelection in 1984, had no role in Reagan’s campaign in 1980 when I served as Eastern Regional Political Director with responsibility both before […]
The Clinton Ship Goes Down
By Roger Stone The New York Times details screaming matches between Clinton Campaign guru Mark Penn and Clinton Media Consultant Mandy Grunwald, over how to rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic. Penn raped the campaign for $6 million for a pathetic losing strategy. Now I hear Harold Ickes is looking into 20% markups on $10 […]
Bill Buckley Conservative And Cool
By Roger Stone In 1965, one year after the defeat of my hero Barry Goldwater, I was taking the commuter train from New Canaan, Connecticut to New York City to volunteer in Bill Buckley’s campaign for Mayor on the weekends in October. I was there when Buckley, asked what he would do if he won […]
The Jackson Six
When I saw a photo of the 16 year old Barack Obama on the cover of the New York Times, all I could think of was…
NY Times Produces McCain Nothingburger
Gray Lady Fingers Source As a veteran of eight national Republican Presidential campaigns I know a journalistic hit-job when I see one. To be effective such a piece must prove malfeasance, immorality, or worse. By any standard the New York Times hatchet job on McCain failed to do this. In John McCain Republicans will nominate […]
How Mark Penn Blew It
There is little doubt the Bill and Hillary Clinton are skilled politicians who share a formidable base in both the Democratic Party and the Country. The Clinton fundraising skills are legendary as evidenced by the $120 million her campaign has raised to date. Hillary started this race with a seemingly insurmountable lead. Unfortunately, Hillary’s campaign […]
Who Are The Superdelegates?
A review of the actual names of the Democrat Convention Superdelegates is like a trip down the memory lane of losers, including former Senator and Presidential candidate Fred Harris of Oklahoma, former Vice President Walter Mondale and former Vice President Al Gore. How in the world did they miss George McGovern?
Barack Obama and Eliot Spitzer
The Troopergate scandal in which Governor ‘Spitzer’s top Aides were caught red handed using the State police to set up Republican Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno hurt the Governor’s credibility tremendously. Spitzer was also harmed by his hypocrisy on Campaign Finance Reform when he pushed rules that would benefit wealthy self-funders like himself at the […]
A Shift Of Campaign Manager Can Mean A Shift In Strategy: Off Chelsea!
I am certainly a vocal critic of former First Lady and New York Senator Hillary Clinton but judgments in the press about what Hillary Clinton’s change of campaign managers means about the status of her campaign are wrong. A needed change of strategy may simply require a reassignment of political and personal talents. By all […]
Huck’s VP Gambit
Mike Huckabee’s campaign for Vice President, discussed in detail on these pages, is continuing with more than modest success. Huckabee scored impressive victories in the Mid-West and South, racking up more delegates to, in the end, “makes sure the platform properly reflects the Conservative principles of my campaign for which hundreds of thousands of Republicans […]
