Roger Stone Wonders If Political Work Led To Mass Death

Famed Republican dirty trickster and Scott Rothstein partner Roger Stone told the Daily Beast that he has regrets for organizing a mob of GOP staffers to stage a coup at the Miami-Dade elections office in 2000 to stop the Bush-Gore vote recount. Said Stone: There have been many times I've...

By Bob Norman

November 21, 2008

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Famed Republican dirty trickster and Scott Rothstein partner Roger Stone told the Daily Beast that he has regrets for organizing a mob of GOP staffers to stage a coup at the Miami-Dade elections office in 2000 to stop the Bush-Gore vote recount. Said Stone:

There have been many times I've regretted it. 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.

Ah, the kinder gentler Roger Stone, a Lee Atwater routine sans deathbed. But I think it's too late for Stone, who is based in Rothstein's Las Olas law office, to get out from from under George W. Bush's hated shadow. He'll be listed as a co-conspirator in the history books. And I think he owes us more admissions. Has he apologized for Watergate yet?

(Thanks to commenter below for heads-up).

Journalist Bob Norman has been raking the muck of South Florida for the past 25 years. His work has led to criminal cases against corrupt politicians, the ouster of bad judges from the bench, and has garnered dozens of state, regional, and national awards.

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