NP - Roger Stone to GOP: Payback's a Bitch

[David Morris]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/roger-stone-interview-rnc-2012-12175013

A walking master class in the dark arts of political castration (just
ask Eliot Spitzer), Stone is here this week "observing."

He is actually on a mission for former New Mexico governor and
Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson, who is now the
Libertarian standard-bearer. He says that Johnson will likely be on
the ballot in all fifty states, and is polling in the high single
digits in enough of them to actually factor in the outcome of the
election.

"Johnson is polling at 9 percent in Arizona [according to PPP], and
it's all gonna come out of Romney's hide, and he's at 6 percent in
Wisconsin (according to the Reason poll), which is all out of Obama's
hide. I am helping Gary figure out where to put his emphasis." He
points toward the convention floor. "Snubbing Ron Paul's people today,
and not counting their votes, was just magical, wonderful for us," he
says beaming, arms spread wide as if to say come to papa. "A bunch of
people are gonna leave here very angry. To not announce Ron Paul's
total from the chair is an insult. He won those delegates, he's
entitled to — shall we say — be defeated gracefully. They are angry,
and we are going to pick up those people."