Reply #99: I'm concluding that Stone can't be linked directly to MacDougald

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I've plowed through a lot of material on the New Right, and there seem to be at least two major groups involved here. The one to which MacDougald and Bozell belong tends to be southern, culturally conservative, often racist, rabidly anti-Clinton, and funded by Scaife.

The other, to which Stone and Blackwell and Rove belong, and which comes out of the various Young Republican and College Republican groups of the 60's, is more northern, libertarian, given to Nixonian dirty tricks, and funded, I think, by Viguerie and Weyrich.

This doesn't mean that MacDougald and Stone couldn't have been part of the same operation. Both groups are, after all, dedicated to promoting the campaign of George W. But it does suggest that we'e unlikely to find any direct connection between them. They just don't hang out in the same circles.