Roger Stone comes from old school Republican roots. He comes from a time when the GOP believed in fiscal discipline, a cautious foreign policy and in an opportunity society. Realizing what many old school Republicans have, that an influx of ex-Democrats has ruined the GOP and turn it into a carbon copy of the old FDR era Democratic Party, Stone has left the party. He has joined the Libertarian Party, which despite some of its lunacy represents what the Eisenhower-Reagan era Republican Party stood for.
The Grand Old Party has lost Roger Stone. The once-golden (if wild) child of right-minded Republicans has broken ranks — and left his past behind.
“On Monday, I left the Republican Party changing my Florida voter registration to the Libertarian Party,” he wrote Wednesday on his “Stone Zone” blog. “. . .To put it bluntly the Republican Party is hopelessly [expletive] up.”
His withering assesment of the GOP extends to its top contenders for president: Mitt Romney “converted to conservatism” to run; Newt Gingrich is a “thrice married ego-maniac with delusions of grandeur”; Rick Santorum “a religious fanatic who would tell other people how to live.”
Harsh words — but not surprising for anyone who’s worked with the flashy political operative and self-described “GOP hitman.” Stone, 59, was one of the most sought-after party insiders back in the day: He worked for Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President and administration (and has a tattoo of Nixon on his back), Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign, teamed up with famed political consultant Lee Atwater and had a hand in the 2000 Florida recount circus. He is famous for his political aphorisms (“Stone’s Rules”): “Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.”
This is nothing that should be dismissed. Roger Stone comes from Old School Republican roots. He feels as I do, that the GOP has gone in a nanny state direction. It resembles the Democratic Party of FDR. Roger Stone didn’t leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left him and many others feel the same.
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