2007 Political Notes
HAIR TODAY GONE TOMORROW – After appearances with Tucker Carlson on MSNBC, NY-1 with Dominic Carter and Fox News, many readers have e-mailed to ask whether I am dying my hair darker. Why the Progressive Left has such an obsession with my hair, I don’t know. In any event, the “new color” is my natural […]
Spitzer’s Ultimate Dirty Trick
By Roger Stone I awoke this morning to false allegations in the New York press that I had made a threatening phone call to Governor Spitzer’s 82 year old father, leaving a voice-mail message. Let me assure you I made no such call. Before you shed a tear for poor old 82 year old Mr. […]
LBJ Whitewash Continues
By Roger Stone First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, no doubt deserved the accolades throughout her obituaries last week where she was praised for her efforts to beautify the country and for her patience with her philandering husband. She was by all counts a gracious, church-going woman and indefatigable campaigner for her husband. Lady Bird had […]
Rudy’s Shot
By Roger Stone Rudy Giuliani’s decision to confirm his pro-choice stance may ultimately be the decision that allows him to survive the early Primaries to wrap up the nomination in the bonanza of Primary States on February 5th. Indeed the ex-mayor’s pro-choice position may allow him to score with a plurality of the vote in […]
Send Trump
The New York Times reports that President George W. Bush wants to send former Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom to the Middle East as a special envoy. This has to be about the worst idea I have ever heard. Since all the Arab Nations view Blair as a lap-dog for President Bush […]
New Jersey Rejects Bigotry
By Roger Stone The Republican Party broke with its past in yesterday’s New Jersey Primary when the first Korean-American ever won a decisive Primary victory for the State Senate in the face of “over the top” race baiting by his opponent in which he was unfavorably compared with the Reverend Al Sharpton. In a raw […]
Who will steer Fred’s ship?
By Roger Stone This weeks media blitz makes it clear that Arthur Branch, the Manhattan District Attorney who hails from Tennessee, is about to amble into the 2008 Presidential race. Big Fred Thompson, who has demonstrated on the big screen and the little screen, that he knows how to convey emotions like wisdom, decency, deliberation, […]
The Ailes Formula
By Roger Stone Former Governor Mitt Romney recently announced a series of Town Meetings called “Ask Mitt Romney Anything” where the public, and not the media, are allowed to ask questions funneled through a panel of “Typical Americans.” Presumably, Romney will have the good-sense to televise these encounters as well as cutting them into effective […]
Why Fred?
By Roger Stone Near the end of his successful first term, Ronald Reagan was asked whether he thought his training as an actor had prepared him for the job of the Presidency. Reagan replied, “I don’t see how any fellow that wasn’t an actor could do this job.” That is because Reagan understood that the […]
The Gang Around Hillary
By Roger Stone The group of senior political advisors and political operators around Hillary Clinton remind one so much of the “Berlin Wall” around Richard Nixon. The gang around Hillary shares the same need as H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrichman, John Mitchell, Murray Chotiner and Jeb Magruder to not just defeat one’s opponent, but to “destroy” […]
