GOP behind Spitzer fall?

Intrigue: Novak suggests GOP operative behind Spitzer fall 03/17/2008 @ 8:51 amFiled by John Byrne Was a political operative behind the fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer? That's the suggestion in a Sunday column by conservative columnist Robert Novak(R-always wrong). A Republican operative, he's found, predicted the governor's fall specifically -- several months in advance. "Republican political operative Roger Stone, Eliot Spitzer's longtime antagonist, predicted his political demise more than three months in advance," Novak writes. "Spitzer's entrapment by federal authorities investigating a prostitution ring raised speculation that Stone, with a 40-year record as a political hit man, somehow was behind it." "Eliot Spitzer will not serve out his term as governor of the state of New York,'' Stone said Dec. 6 on Michael Smerconish's radio talk show," Novak added. "He gave no details." Novak's post was titled "GOP strategists at work." In an interview last week, Stone cheered the governor's demise, and hinted further that he'd known about the governor's fall. "I didn't make him go to a prostitution ring," Stone told a Newsday columnist Mar 12. "He did that all on his own." Asked whether he had a hand in Spitzer's woes, Stone said, "No comment." "I will say I knew it was coming," he added. "That's why I wasn't too upset about the results of the special election," where a Democrat won control of a formerly Republican seat in the State Senate, where the Republicans have a one-vote margin. Speaking of the scandal Stone added cryptically: "My work isn't done there. Just watch." Stone now runs an anti-Clinton political 527 group, Citizens United Not Timid, the acronym of which has sparked fury among liberal groups.