If the New York Times can have Bill Kristol and Davis Brooks, we at the Rumpus can have our token Right-winger in house. NOTES FROM THE DARK SIDE will be a regular feature for the Rumpus by controversial Republican Political Consultant Rogers Stone. Stone is the hard-bitten veteran of eight national Republican Presidential campaigns starting with Nixon and running through his involvement in the 2000 Florida Recount in which he incited the Brooks Brothers riot and closed down the Miami-Dade recount for BUSH. Stone’s political views are candid, pungent and informed, although rarely conventional.
For those not familiar with Republican Hit Man go to Matt Labash’s profile on Stone, “Political Animal” (pdf) or Jeff Toobin’s “The Dirty Trickster” for the New Yorker (pdf).