It pays to be the water-carrier of the Right.

Matt Drudge, the owner of the popular conservative news website Drudge Report, just bought a new house in South Miami-Dade.

He snagged the ranch place in Redland, an unincorporated area, for $1.45 million — cash.

It’s the 45-year-old Drudge’s second big home purchase in the county. According to records at the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser’s Office, Drudge also owns a $1.4 million crib off the Venetian Causeway in Miami Beach. He bought it in 2003.

The reclusive Drudge didn’t respond to a request for an interview.

His new property on Southwest 157th Avenue boasts almost five acres of lush forest and a five-bedroom, 6,400-square-foot ranch house. It was described in real estate websites as “a safari-like” tropical retreat with a world-class security camera system, large entertainment gazebo, soothing waterfall in the master bathroom and a large Jacuzzi.

Sounds like Drudge will be able to entertain the likes of Karl Rove in perfect privacy.

Stalker jailed

The suburban mom of twins acquitted of stalking WPLG-Channel 10 personality Kristi Krueger in 2003 has finally landed in jail for stalking — somebody else.

This time, she targeted her neighbors in Winter Springs.

Georgia Roberts, 45, is scheduled to spend Christmas and the New Year in the Seminole County lockup after pleading no contest to aggravated stalking.

According to records, she was sentenced to three months behind bars and five years probation. Among her conditions of release, she must pay a Web specialist to wipe out false allegations she made on a blog about the neighbors. She was accused of making life miserable for the family across the street since 2007.

“Kristi has no comment and neither do I,” said Krueger’s husband, Todd Templin. “It is what it is.”

It all started when she claimed neighbor Randy Fuhrman had sex with her and lied about it to his wife, Jennifer.

Roberts harassed the Fuhrmans at work, at school, at church and at the supermarket. She even sent strippers to their house. They moved twice to avoid Roberts, but she’d pop up nearby in no time.

In 2003, she represented herself in a trial in Broward County for stalking Krueger.

She was acquitted and left town. Templin said he hasn’t heard from her since.

And finally . . .

. . . Tea party sugar daddy David Koch, America’s fourth richest man, has been gently spanked by the town of Palm Beach. He recently had camouflage net put around his $26 million mansion to shield the property from view — this after the house made it in a documentary about his lobbying against government spending. Since Palm Beach isn’t a camouflage net kind of place, he was told to remove it. He did … Burn Notice’s Gabrielle Anwar is scheduled to be the auctioneer at Saturday’s Make-a-Wish Ball at the Intercontinental in downtown Miami. She’ll have mighty big stilettos to fill. Ex- American Idol judge Paula Abdul and actresses Sharon Stone and Pamela Anderson were her predecessors.