RealClearPolitics - Articles by Roger Stone

Palin's Plan

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

It was 1962. Richard Nixon had had enough. Enough of being called "Tricky Dick, the man no one would buy a used car from." Enough of the elitist derision that had come his way since the Hiss case. He had had enough of the liberal media who consistently held him to a higher standard than his Democratic opponents and poked fun at his lack of sophistication - he being the son of a grocer. So Nixon blew. He announced the end of his career in seeking elective office; "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." Six years later he was inaugurated as President of the United States.

This moment came last week for Sarah Palin and...

When Will Eliot Spitzer Stop Lying?

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

You could even add theft of honest services, if you want to include his time as Attorney General when he spared his donors from his crazed crusading and turned a blind eye to tips about Bernard Madoff, who is a friend of Eliot's father. The Spitzers were investors with Madoff.

At the time, the prostitution dalliance actually saved Eliot, the faux sheriff of Wall Street, from even greater public scrutiny during his short gubernatorial tenure, which he escaped and still deserves. Governor Eliot was spying on his political enemy Majority Leader Joe Bruno and he used the New York State Police to do it. Then he stonewalled the subsequent investigation, Nixon-style.

The Albany...