http://stonezone.com en-us http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=366 President Barrack Obama maybe our most incompetent President since Jimmy Carter. Both Carter and Obama share the same high opinion of themselves and both are now revealed to be bunglers without a clue. Obama's 12 hour support for the Ground Zero Mosque before he mounted a full and hasty retreat is the single worst misstep since Carter blamed a national malaise for the nation's problems. ... August 17 2010 12:20:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=365 ... August 02 2010 08:20:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=364 Republican US Senate candidate Sharon Angle can still win the seat of U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid despite an expensive early summer negative TV pounding of Angle by Reid's Special Interest-fueled campaign and a so-called 527 committee organized by Reid cronies. A recent Rasmussen Poll show 41 % of voters now viewed Angle unfavorably while 48 % Reid's negatives still outweighs Angle's. Reid is under 50% at 45% and Angle is at 43%. High unemployment is hurting Reid who is trying to depict Angle as a dangerous nut. ... August 02 2010 08:15:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=363 ... August 02 2010 08:10:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=362 Beleagured Congressman Charlie Rangel has more political options than many realize,as he face a House trial on charges that clearly include tax evasion and abuse of power. He could be expelled or resign from the House, win the Democratic primary and the general election and force the House to decide whether to seat him... if he can get by hard-charging Adam Clayton Powell IV, (http://powellforcongress.com) the lengendary. Congressman and Civil Rights leader Rangel defeated in 1970. ... August 02 2010 08:05:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=361 I would have so much more respect for Kathleen Parker who has agreed to co-anchor at CNN with world-class slimeball Eliot Spitzer if she would just admit she is doing it for the $700,00 CNN is paying her (Client # 9 is only getting $400,000) but trying to whitewash and rationalize Spitzer's sins in a self-serving column in the Washington Post is beyond the pale. ... August 02 2010 08:01:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=360 ... August 02 2010 08:00:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=359 Charlie Crist is a real glad-hander with scant principles or philosophical moorings. After winning public office by claiming to be a "Ronald Reagan conservative" and a pro-life tax cutter,Crist has proven to be neither. Crist is the kind of politician you are impressed with the first time you meet him. By the third time you meet him you realize he is completely full of shit and completely ego-centric. Charlie believes in nothing but the self aggrandizement of Charlie. Charlie is focused, driven and relentless. ... July 14 2010 08:20:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=358 It is no small irony that former Eliot Spitzer Aide Darren Dopp, who carried out Spitzer express orders to focus a dirty tricks operation on former Senate majority Leader Joe Bruno, is fighting an effort by the New York State Ethics Commission to fine him for carrying out Spitzer's orders, memorialized in e-mails released after Spitzer's resignation at the same time Spitzer mounts a doomed cable TV show on CNN. ... July 14 2010 08:10:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=357 Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer--who resigned after getting caught soliciting prostitute Ashley Dupré and violating interstate-trafficking laws--wants to be the mayor of New York City. When asked for comment about his mayoral ambitions, Spitzer's spokesperson declined to comment. "His plan is to run for mayor when Mike Bloomberg's third term ends in 2013," a source told the New York Post. "I don't see New Yorkers voting to put an un-convicted criminal into City Hall," says former Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis, who is running for New York governor as a Libertarian. ... July 14 2010 08:01:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=356 ... July 14 2010 08:00:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=355 ... July 09 2010 10:35:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=354 I am outraged that former Vice President Al Gore would sully my pristine reputation by booking his massage assignations under my name. I would never book a full-service massage through a hotel concierge. What a buffoon. ... June 29 2010 08:15:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=353 No, I had nothing to do with the surprise victory of seemingly indigent Alvin Greene in the South Carolina Democratic primary. Whoever did foster Greene's candidacy - if anyone at all - knew what they were doing. Greene's win is really not that hard to explain. ... June 29 2010 08:10:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=352 Eliot Spitzer liked to choke girls who refused his demands to have sex without a condom - now CNN is giving him a cable TV show. ... June 29 2010 08:05:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=351 What is more pathetic than former Congressman Rick Lazio's campaign for Governor of the Empire State. Lazio is by all accounts a nice fellow. Who in his campaign convinced him to attack Democrat front runner Andrew Cuomo for taking money from lobbyists while Lazio is himself a lobbyist who took a $1.3 million wall street bonus for JP Morgan while they were getting $25 Billion bail-out from taxpayers? Democrat operative Charlie Kingrunning of the State Democratic Party, who has emerged as an intimate advisor to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, did a tune on Wall Street Rick in the New York media. ... June 29 2010 08:00:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=350 Rick Lazio is the designee of the New York Republican Party but wont be it's nominee unless he overcomes the Republican Primary challenge of hard-charging Buffalo businessman and Tea Party activist Carl Paladino. "The Republican primary is a right-wing orgy" is what Lazio strategist Arthur Finklestein used to say: today he whistles a different tune insisting the pro-abortion, pro-gun control Lazio, a cheerleader for Andrew Cuomo's sub-prime mortgage fiasco when Lazio was in the Congress, will easily prevail over the more-conservative pro-life, pro-second amendment Paladino. He's wrong. Paladino will be more than competitive. ... June 15 2010 01:50:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=349 Former Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis Interviews with ReasonTV about why she's a libertarian, life after Eliot Spitzer and why she's running for Governor. ... June 15 2010 01:45:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=348 US Senator George Lemieux is shocked, shocked that there are financial irregularities around former Florida GOP Chief Jim Greer. Please give us a break. The Little Frenchman who knifed his mentor Charlie Crist by backing Marco Rubio for the US Senate was Greer's protector when the Palm Beach Post published evidence of Greer's spending at the Breakers... For food, wine, alcohol, spa treatments, and lavish meals - all at party expense. Greer facilitated the $350,000 the State Party paid to the little French seat warmer. I contend it was a pass through from the Seminoles in return for George giving them a sweetheart gaming contract. Where is the US Attorney ? ... June 15 2010 01:40:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=347 ... June 15 2010 01:38:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=346 Changing the rules at the Convention if your candidate is losing is a tradition in the Republican Party. Such a move nominated Dwight D.Eisenhower and started the trajectory of New York Republican party Chairman Ed Cox's father-in-law, Richard M. Nixon to the Vice Presidency and eventually to the White House. ... May 25 2010 09:30:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=345 New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is the odds-on front runner to be Governor of the Empire State largely because of the political discipline he has demonstrated since his 2006 gubernatorial defeat. Cuomo has carefully avoided controversial or ideological issues. He has also limited his access to the media in order to more tightly control his public relations messaging. Should Sheik Mohammed be tried in a civil court? Andrew hasn't said. Furloughs for state workers opposed by the public employee unions? The Attorney General hasn't taken a position. ... May 25 2010 09:15:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=344 In his five terms in the US Senate Arlen Specter left his mark on both that institution and on the country. In a political career which marked four city and statewide defeats before he won his first US Senate term in 1980, Specter exasperated both Republicans and Democrats with his quirky and independent style. ... May 25 2010 09:00:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=343 It had to happen. Andrew Perez was an intern at Rothstein Rosenfeldt and Adler who watched the Scott Rothstein/Billion dollar Ponzi saga unfold from a ringside seat. Now Perez has sold the option for "THE JEWISH AVENGER" - a screenplay also called "Rothstein-the Movie" to Montbanc Films of Santa Monica. The production company that optioned the screenplay is in discussions with both HBO and XF, both of whom have expressed extreme interest in packaging it as made-for-TV movie. Preliminary casting has been discussed. ... May 11 2010 10:45:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=342 Charlie Crist’s stunning decision to run in the Florida U.S. Senate race as an Independent is based on two assumptions; Crist is a certain loser in the Republican Party Primary against former House Speaker Marco Rubio; and Kendrick Meek winning the Democratic nominee and will, because of his liberalism, own ethics scandals, and underfunding, will underperform among Democrats. ... April 30 2010 11:00:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=341 Eliot Spitzer was the toast of Manhattan last week with an extremely sympathetic book, and film project re-firing speculation that the former Governor wants to climb back into the political arena. Despite the dubious scholarship of both film and book, Spitzer was everywhere; on cable, radio and the New York Times. ... April 29 2010 10:00:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=340 Alex Gibney’s untitled documentary on Eliot Spitzer which previewed at the Tribeca Film Festival is a terrific campaign film. It could have been made by Guggenheim, the early political auteur, who helmed films for the Kennedy brothers. That Gibney is a great filmmaker, there is no doubt. He is also a fine fellow to hoist a few and dine with, swapping stories. But his movie is a pro-Spitzer propaganda piece. ... April 26 2010 15:50:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=339 ... April 23 2010 09:00:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=338 Author of new Spitzer rehab book "Rough Justice," a love letter which dwells on the sexual but fails to examine the blackmail and selective prosecution tactics he used as a prosecutor, or his misuse of state funds to have State Police spy on his enemies, has revealed himself as a cheerleader for a return of Client #9 to public office. ... April 23 2010 08:30:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=337 ... April 23 2010 08:20:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=336 ... April 23 2010 08:15:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=335 With libertarianism on the rise, Kristin Davis might be just the person to exemplify the strong political force in that movement. Maximum liberty is key in this election season. The growth of government, debt escalating everyday, and big brother watching our every move, has pushed people to explore a political party that takes liberty seriously. Conservatives are in the midst of a crux here: either the GOP comes over to our side, or people will explore other options outside the two party system like it or not. ... April 23 2010 08:05:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=334 ... April 23 2010 08:00:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=333 Peter Elkind’s new book “Rough Justice,” a chronicle of the fall and supposed resurrection of Eliot Spitzer, is a contorted piece of shit. Elkind joins the growing Upper East Side Liberal chorus that would have us forget Spitzer’s violation of various state and federal laws, his repeated lies about the abuse of power involved in using the state police to spy on his political opponents and his lies regarding the source of the funding of his first two campaigns for Attorney General. ... April 15 2010 13:00:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=332 ... April 15 2010 12:57:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=331 Conservative businessman Carl Paladino is opposed to gay marriage in New York State. But because Paladino favors Initiatives and Referendums, he has proposed it be put to a vote and would abide by the result as Governor. ... April 15 2010 12:59:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=330 New York Libertarians backing Ex-Madam Kristin Davis for Governor are asking porn-king Larry Flynt - a national symbol of the First Amendment, to join their ticket as a U.S. Senate candidate to “Make a statement for free expression.” Although a resident of California, Flynt could take a residence, register and be eligible to run. ... April 15 2010 12:56:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=329 ... April 12 2010 13:50:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=328 The New York Daily News used to be the newspaper of middle-class New York. The paper favored by the Irish, Italians, Poles, as well as New York’s emerging African-American and Latino middle-class, lost its place in the newspaper market by shifting left in its editorial posture and through its columnists tried to become the New York Times. This explains why they have a smaller and smaller share of newspaper readers in the New York metropolitan area. ... April 12 2010 14:10:00 http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=327 Florida Governor Charlie Crist told former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani that he was unlikely to endorse any candidate in the 2008 Florida Republican Presidential Primary, but if he did endorse a candidate, it would be the Mayor. Unfortunately, Crist told Mitt Romney the same thing, except the former Massachusetts Governor would be the one picked. Only weeks later, Crist endorsed John McCain without even a courtesy warning to Giuliani or Romney. Back then Crist was the king of all he surveyed, with a 71% approval rating and the affection of Florida voters across the spectrum. ... April 12 2010 14:00:00