Discussion for article #246370
Come on Roger (whoever you are) tell us how you really feel!
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Never forget. This man was running parts of the Reagan campaign, was behind George H.W. Bush’s infamous Wille Horton ads, has been for years a mouthpiece for Trump for his casino lobbying, worked on Kemp’s campaign, worked on Arlen Spectre’s campaign… this is not just your ordinary racist POS hack that came out of the woodwork. He has been a inside the GOP as political operator and oppo-research hatchet man for the party going back multiple decades.
This is who the GOP has been throughout my lifetime.
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Quite clear why he and Trump are “allies”. And why Trump is almost surely the first presidential candidate since Pat Buchanan to not reject support from Klan members and other white supremacists. Why did CNN ever put this POS on the air to begin with? He has always lived in a sewer.
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Lee Atwater was the one “behind” Willie Horton.
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CNN, who watches those morons besides people stuck in airports?
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… and Roger Ailes
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True. But look at the sewer he lived in.
As a student at The George Washington University in 1972, Stone invited Jeb Magruder to speak at a Young Republicans Club, then successfully hit up Magruder for a job with Richard Nixon’s storied Committee to Re-elect the President. Stone’s political career began in earnest with activities such as contributing money to a possible rival of Nixon in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance—then slipping the receipt to the Manchester Union-Leader. He also got a spy hired by the Hubert Humphrey campaign who became Humphrey’s driver. According to Stone, during the day he was officially a scheduler in the Nixon campaign, but:
“By night, I’m trafficking in the black arts. Nixon’s people were obsessed with intelligence.”
After Nixon won the 1972 presidential election, Stone worked for the administration in the Office of Economic Opportunity. After Nixon resigned, Stone went to work for Bob Dole, but he was fired after columnist Jack Anderson publicly identified Stone as a Nixon dirty trickster. In 1976, he worked in Ronald Reagan’s campaign for president, and in 1977, became national chairman of the Young Republicans.
Stone went on to serve as chief strategist for Governor Tom Kean’s campaign for Governor of New Jersey in 1981 and for his re-election campaign in 1985.
Stone, the “keeper of the Nixon flame,” was an adviser to the former President in his post-presidential years, serving as “Nixon’s man in Washington.” Stone was a protégé of former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge, who introduced the young Stone to then former Vice President Nixon in 1967.
John Sears recruited Stone to work in Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign in 1979–80, coordinating the Northeast. Stone said that former McCarthyist Roy Cohn helped him arrange for John B. Anderson to get the nomination of the Liberal Party of New York, a move that would help split the opposition to Reagan in the state. Stone said Cohn gave him a suitcase that Stone avoided opening and, as instructed by Cohn, dropped it off at the office of a lawyer influential in Liberal Party circles. Reagan carried the state with 46 percent of the vote. Speaking after the statute of limitations for bribery had expired, Stone later said, “I paid his law firm. Legal fees. I don’t know what he did for the money, but whatever it was, the Liberal party reached its right conclusion out of a matter of principle”.
In 1983–84, Stone served as Regional Political Director for the Northeast for Reagan-Bush '84. In addition to his previous portfolio from the 1980 campaign, he was given responsibility for the key swing state of Ohio; Reagan carried every state in Stone’s region.
With partners Charlie Black and Paul Manafort, he formed Black, Manafort, and Stone, a political consulting firm, described as “instrumental in the success of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 campaign”. Republican political strategist Lee Atwater later joined the firm in 1985, after serving the #2 position on Reagan-Bush '84.
In 1987–88, Stone served as Senior Adviser to the Jack Kemp for President campaign, which was managed by consulting partner Charlie Black. That same election, his other partners worked for George H.W. Bush (Lee Atwater as campaign manager, and Paul Manafort as director of operations in the fall campaign).
In April 1992, Time alleged that Stone was involved with the controversial Willie Horton advertisements to aid George H. W. Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign, which were targeted against Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Stone has said that he urged Republican political strategist Lee Atwater not to include Horton in the ad. Stone denied making or distributing the advertisement, and said that was Atwater’s doing.
Stone and his first wife Ann E. W. Stone, whom he married in 1974, founded the group Republicans for Choice in 1989. They divorced in 1990.
In 1995, Stone was the president of Republican Senator Arlen Specter’s campaign for the 1996 Republican Presidential nomination. Specter withdrew early in the campaign season with less than two percent support.
Stone was for many years a lobbyist for Donald Trump on behalf of his casino business [24] and was also involved in opposing expanded casino gambling in New York State, a position that brought him into conflict with Governor George Pataki.
In 1996, Stone resigned from a post as a volunteer spokesman in Senator Bob Dole’s campaign for president after The National Enquirer wrote that Stone had placed ads and pictures in racy swingers publications and a website seeking sexual partners for himself and his second wife, Nydia Bertrane Stone, whom he married in Las Vegas in the 1992. Stone initially denied the report. On the Good Morning America program he said: “An exhaustive investigation now indicates that a domestic employee who I discharged for substance abuse on the second time that we learned that he had a drug problem is the perpetrator who had access to my home, access to my computer, access to my password, access to my postage meter, access to my post-office box key”. In a 2008 interview with The New Yorker Stone admitted that the ads were authentic.
In 2002, Stone was associated with the campaign of businessman Thomas Golisano for Governor of New York State.
During the 2004 US Presidential campaign, Al Sharpton responded to accusations that Stone was working on his campaign, stating “I’ve been talking to Roger Stone for a long time. That doesn’t mean that he’s calling the shots for me. Don’t forget that Bill Clinton was doing more than talking to Dick Morris”. Critics suggested that Stone was only working with Sharpton as a way to undermine the Democratic Party’s chances of winning the election. Sharpton denies that Stone had any influence over his campaign.
In the spring and summer of 2004, two 527 groups associated with Stone sent out mailings attacking Winston-Salem City Councilman Vernon Robinson during the primary race. Other mailings from one of the 527 groups promoted then-State Senator Virginia Foxx, who ultimately won the race.
In this election, a blogger accused Stone of responsibility for the “Kerry-Specter” campaign materials that were circulated in Pennsylvania. Such signs were considered controversial because they were seen as an effort to get Democrats who supported Kerry to vote for then Republican Senator Arlen Specter in heavily Democratic Philadelphia.
In 2007 Stone, a top adviser at the time to Joseph Bruno (the majority leader of the New York State Senate), was forced to resign by Bruno after allegations that Stone had threatened then gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer. Stone was accused on an episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews on August 22, 2007, of being the voice on an expletive-laden voicemail threatening Bernard Spitzer, father of Eliot, with subpoenas.
Stone has consistently denied the reports. Thereafter, however, he resigned from his position as a consultant to the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee, at Bruno’s request.
In January 2008, Stone founded Citizens United Not Timid, an anti-Hillary Clinton 527 group with an intentionally obscene acronym.
In February 2010, Stone became campaign manager for Kristin Davis, a madam linked with the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, in her bid for the Libertarian Party nomination for Governor of New York in the 2010 election. Stone says that the campaign “is not a hoax, a prank or a publicity stunt. I want to get her a half-million votes.” However, he was later spotted at a campaign rally for another gubernatorial candidate, Carl Paladino; of whom Stone has spoken favorably. Stone has admittedly been providing support and advice to both campaigns, on the grounds that the two campaigns have different goals: Davis is seeking to gain permanent ballot access for her party, while Paladino is in the race to win (and is Stone’s preferred candidate). As such, Stone does not believe he has a conflict of interest in supporting both candidates.
While working for the Davis campaign, he corroborated with a group entitled “People for a Safer New York” to send a flyer labeling Libertarian Party candidate Warren Redlich a “sexual predator” based on a blog post Redlich had made in April 2008. The move backfired, and Davis finished in last place with roughly half the votes Redlich did while Redlich finished with the highest vote total of any Libertarian gubernatorial candidate in the state’s history. Stone continues to hold ill will against the Libertarian Party of New York.
Stone is featured in the 2008 award-winning documentary on Lee Atwater, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. He was also featured in the 2010 documentary of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.
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Hey Stone! there are calls for you on lines 1 and 2—Cruzio and Trump have job offers.
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It took TWITTER to get CNN not to have him on? For Christ’s sake, didn’t the execs see him on Wolf Blitzer the other day stumbling and fumbling and lying his ass off?
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Just making a note here that this is the “political correctness” Trump and his supporters often decry.
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He still works for Trump…and has continued to work for him since his “official departure” from his campaign. They just wanted some distance so when he started going on about how wonderful Trump was, it would given more credibility, as well as so Trump could distance himself from this sort of thing.
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"He’s also previously referred to Navarro and former CNN analyst Roland Martin as “quota hires.”
That was one long Twitter thread of stupid. So he thinks it’s not racist to use “Negro” to highlight one’s race instead of N ----R??? OK I’ll give him refined jerk and asshole and racist, but he is still what he is.
I’m sure his “defense” will go along the lines of pointing to the name of the United Negro College Fund and then claim reverse racism. 
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Even after “some things” are gone …
It takes time for the odor to follow —
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Aaaah! It’s like Reddenbacher and Gowdy had a baby!
Ahhhhhhhh.
Maybe Morning Joe will pick him up. He’s a better fit there.
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Typical Trunp supporter! Bigoted, hateful and more full of shit than a xmas goose.
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