Let McCain Be McCain
By Roger Stone I supported John McCain for President seven years ago because I thought he was the real political heir to Ronald Reagan. McCain is a rock-solid conservative who hates Government waste and has little patience for bureaucratic boondoggling as well as a hater of Government pork and fighter for spending restraint. In the […]
How Hagel Could Win
By Roger Stone Public recognition that the war is a colossal blunder maybe the key to both a Democratic and Republican nominations for President in 2008. Sophisticated polling that I have reviewed among suburban Republicans outside Philadelphia, Newark, Sacramento, Tampa, New York City, Chicago, Columbus and Phoenix show extraordinarily high disapproval ratings for President George […]
Gore’s The One
Party Fails To Replicate Crist’s Appeal To Blacks
By Roger Stone The Republican Party strategy of increasing its percentage of the African-American vote in typical Democratic states – nominating attractive African-American candidates for statewide office – crashed this month when Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell lost his bid for governor of Ohio, football great Lynn Swann was defeated for governor of Pennsylvania […]
Stone: Hillary Tacked Left Too Soon; McCain Would Have Benefited From Rudy ’08 Run
By Roger Stone In part two of DC Spectator’s interview with GOP consultant Roger Stone, Hillary’s ’08 challenges and the ’08 GOP presidential primary are discussed: DCs: Lots of Republicans I talk to here in town think, flatly, that Hillary is unelectable and cannot possibly ever be elected President, which, frankly, is total B.S. You […]
Nixon’s ’68 Comeback Offers Clues for Gore
By Roger Stone Several weeks ago, former Vice President Al Gore told the Associated Press that he “had no plans to seek the Presidency in 2008.” His words were eerily reminiscent of a quote from another former Vice President, Richard Nixon, who told the same Associated Press in November of 1965 that he “had no […]
