Where would we be now, if Bush lost then?

That’s one of the questions Roger Stone is asking himself these days. “Consultant Roger Stone, the notorious political hitman who helped George W. Bush prevail in the 2000 Florida recount, tells The Daily Beast that he wishes he hadn’t.”

Mr. Stone talks about his conscience and regret over the 2000 presidential election results. Read on for quotes from The Daily Beast!

“As a self-admitted hit man for the GOP, Stone has had a hand in everything from Nixon’s dirty tricks to Eliot Spitzer’s resignation to spreading discredited rumors of a Michelle Obama “whitey” tape during the 2008 Democratic primaries.”

“The capstone of Stone’s career…was the “Brooks Brothers riot” of the 2000 election recount. This was when a Stone-led squad of pro-Bush protestors stormed the Miami-Dade County election board, stopping the recount and advancing then-Governor George W. Bush one step closer to the White House.”

“‘There have been many times I’ve regretted it,’ Stone [said]. ‘When I look at those double-page New York Times spreads of all the individual pictures of people who have been killed [in Iraq], I got to think, ‘Maybe there wouldn’t have been a war if I hadn’t gone to Miami-Dade. Maybe there hadn’t have been, in my view, an unjustified war if Bush hadn’t become president.’ It’s very disturbing to me.’”

Sadly, Stone still participates in such dirty politics and has no plans to get rid of his list of “dirty” clients.

Source: for the entire article by Benjamin Sarlin, see The Daily Beast 

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