Well, well, well - It's Karl Rove's Old Buddy!

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.

http://www.nypost.com/commentary/30555.htm


In the years of the Watergage scandal, Rove's career as a big-time political handler began with a motley crew of friends and associates. He was chairman of the College Republicans when George Herbert Walker Bush was chairman of the state Republican Party in 1973. He won the presidency of the College Republicans in a race against Terry Dolan. The late Lee Atwater, who later became famous as the political attack dog for the Reagan-Bush team, managed Rove's campaign. Dolan went on to become a Soft Money pioneer by helping form the National Conservative Political Action Committee, then died of AIDS in 1986 at age 36. Dolan's advisers in his loss to Rove were Charlie Black, Paul Manafort and ROGER STONE. Those three were later instrumental in the success of Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign.

http://www.famoustexans.com/karlrove.htm

Courtesy of the one and only FREEMAN.

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... please. "Rumors" have it that Roger Stone's the source.

Just who exactly planted those rumors?

If I didn't want to get caught at something like this, I'd have three or four diversions planned for people to run into. This may just be the first.

On edit, despite the fact that Stone was used in organizing the "rioters" in Florida, I think that Stone and Rove are competitors in the same business. Remember that someone had Stone outed while he was running Dole's campaign in 1996.

Cheers.

If Lee Atwater were still alive I would have speculated that HE was behind the memo sting.

It all came out in 1996, while helping to run Bob Dole's campaign, that Roger Stone and his wife were "swingers," and that they both had placed an ad in several swingers' magazines and the Internet. Stone was rather famously asked to excuse himself from the Dole campaign. Stone claimed he had been set up, though he acknowledged the Internet advertisements were paid for with his credit card. Apparently, these allegations were not grounds for disqualification from the Republican Family Values Club.

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/09/15_recount.html

http://www.bartcop.com/stone.htm

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There's a photo. KKKarl has interesting friends.

about a right wing operative giving Burkett phoney documents?

My meter reader of repulsive people goes off the scale when I see Stone's face on TV.

They don't use him much any more. In the last decade they used him often to discuss the immorality of Clinton.

.....to work through Al Sharpton. Money, phone banks, schmoozing, etc.

anybody?

I'd like to find a connection, believe me.

16. A DIRTY TRICKSTER'S BUSH BONANZA
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0416/barrett.php
“Roger Stone, the dirty-tricks hobgoblin of Republican politics, has exploited his Bush connections to become an influence-peddling force in the $13 billion Indian gaming industry,” reports Wayne Barrett. “Stone's booming business in such a federally regulated enterprise makes his recent pro bono orchestration of Al Sharpton's double-edged presidential campaign an even stranger covert caper. Stone financed and helped organize Sharpton's campaign in the Democratic presidential primary, prompting speculation that Sharpton was actually a stealth Republican operative working to weaken the party's chances in the general election. “Stone has a history of bizarre political operations, beginning with his Watergate-era infiltration of the McGovern campaign,” Barrett notes. He explores Stone's current “double-agent role” in Indian gaming, which “mirrors his seemingly bizarre orchestration of the Sharpton scam. Both are just the latest sagas in Stone's exotic career of self-serving misdirection.”
SOURCE: Village Voice, April 19, 2004
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Convention cities

By AJC staff | Sunday, April 11, 2004, 10:15 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Both major candidates may have reason to rue their party’s convention city choices. For President Bush, New York could be an unforeseen liability. After the events of the past weeks — the testimony of Richard Clarke, the 9/11 commission and a rising insurgency in Iraq — GOP planners may be wondering how wise it will turn out to be to underscore Bush’s handling of the war on terror.

“Karl Rove’s master stroke idea may turn out to be an unmitigated disaster,” Republican strategist Roger Stone said in a New York Times interview.
John Kerry, meanwhile, will pick up his nomination in Boston. Home turf will play his way, but he’ll also be in a state where the white-hot debate over gay marriage is still on the table.
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Today's inside baseball story came from one of Sharpton's hometown paper's, the Village Voice. It detailed Sharpton's financial woes and his financial and political connections to Republican political operative Roger Stone. According to the FEC, Sharpton is close to $350,000 in debt. When I asked about the true relationship between the strange bedfellows, Sharpton's campaign manager, Charles Halloran, said, "I think they have respect for each other's skill sets."

But does Stone aid Sharpton in his attacks against his Democratic rivals such as Howard Dean? "If Roger could find some ants on an anthill to divide he'd be back there with a magnifying glass," said Halloran.
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