A GOP Dirty Trickster Has Second Thoughts


	A GOP Dirty Trickster Has Second Thoughts

reimers

11-20-2008 1:53 PM

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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.

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