| So there's been talk about negotiations between the state Senate GOP crew and Roger Stone, "one of the best-known and most feared Republican political operatives of the past 30 years."
 Roger Stone, one of the best-known and most feared Republican political operatives of the past 30 years, is advising state Senate Republicans on how to beat back the effort by Governor Spitzer and the Democrats to oust them from power.
Mr. Stone, a protégé of President Nixon who developed offensive strategies for the campaigns of President Reagan, the first President Bush, Senator Dole, and other Republicans, is likely to help Republicans sharpen their attacks against Mr. Spitzer.
Stone, blogger spammer extraordinaire (really, I have no idea why I get email from this guy.), big player in the "Miami Mob" that shut down recounts in Florida in 2002, top official in Bob Dole's superb 1996 campaign, and proprietor of the thoroughly entertaining "Stone Zone" is also a notorious swinger.
Big time political strategist Roger Stone and his wife Nikki: The former Bob Dole adviser and his wife were swingers and The Vault was a favorite haunt.
"Roger and Nikki were our customers for a long time," Marini says. "They were heavy duty swingers and ran ads on the Internet and in many sex publications. They were heavy players."
Roger was one of the top advisers who urged Dole and other Republican politicians to emphasize family values and integrity.
"Regardless of his status in politics, Roger never came to the club in disguise," Marini recalls. "He looked like a Ken doll. He was tall, blond, handsome and muscular and his wife was curvaceous and very sexy. She would wear leather bras and tantalizing outfits and he would wear collars, chaps and a leather vest with no shirt underneath."
Whatever floats your boat, I say. What consenting adults do behind closed doors or in, ya know, clubs with names like "the Vault" are their own business.
That said, if all Mr. Stone can come up with is a thouroughly lame website, a move in an arena where, as Bouldin so aptly points out, the NYGOP is so thoroughly owned, I'd say that Bruno isn't exactly getting his filthy money's worth.
The greater weakness, however, is in the correlation of forces online. Simply put, it's no contest: New York has a thriving, independent, linked and networked Progressive blogosphere - networked not just locally and statewide, but nationally. There is nothing on the other side of the aisle that can even be compared to what we have, independently of the party, built up over the last few years - nothing.
Seriously, Joe, do you really think that this is the guy who is going to save you? |
