Reply #14: Mairead, this was covered extensively on Democracy Now... [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

... a week or two ago. This guy, Roger Stone, has extensive ties to the Republican Party -- and he has been a major operative in the Sharpton campaign throughout.

There is no way that Sharpton can claim ignorance on this one. Frankly, I think that the whole thing fits in with Sharpton's history quite clearly. Personally, I don't think that Sharpton is some kind of Republican stalking horse or anything of the like. Rather, Sharpton's primary concern (to the exclusion of all others) is what it has always been -- Al Sharpton. And if by employing a Republican advisor to help him attack other Democratic candidates in an effort to build himself up as a "truth-teller", in hopes of getting that coveted convention address and higher standing in the "black community", then he's going to do it.

Please note that I am not denying that Sharpton has had some valid points in the debates, because he most certainly has. And he quite often makes those points in a colorful and flamboyant way. But it's important to note from where all of his campaign has sprung, and it hasn't been a larger interest in service to anything except the personal motives and goals of Al Sharpton.