Your wait is over! Grover (Norquist) speaks about the GOP candidates

[underpants]

http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2007/05/29/exclusive-interview-grover-speaks/#more-1026

Rolling Stone: Much has been made that the frontrunners may have trouble clearing the bar with religious “values voters.” What’s your assessment?

Grover Norquist: What brings social conservatives to the Republican party is not some list of 20 things that James Dobson would like to see. It’s a much lower threshold. Social conservatives are best understood as a parents-rights movement.


Rolling Stone: Let’s run through the frontrunners, Giuliani, Romney, and McCain, from a small-government perspective.

Grover Norquist: Giuliani has a record of 23 tax cuts as mayor New York and tussled with unions. That is not what weak mayors do, which is roll over and let spending go too high. He’s got a good record in a tough city.

Romney never signed a tax increase in Massachusetts. There were some fees but in general he was pretty good, he showed some spending restraint. Like the mayor of New York, he was in a difficult environment. You’ve gotta grade on a curve a little bit.

Our friend McCain’s challenge is, having been elected as a Reagan Republican and running in 2000 as a Reagan Republican, he — for reasons I don’t understand, but it looks like pique at Bush — voted against every one of Bush’s tax cuts. Now he says he wants to continue the Bush tax cuts and never would vote for an increase. So that’s the big question mark. He’s not running as a candidate who’s against lower taxes. But in the last 6 years he kind of went AWOL on the fight. But now he wants to run as a guy who won’t raise your taxes and supports the tax cuts.

[Fenris]

1. Be still my heart!

[mitchum]

2. Gawd, how I wish some trade would flip out and kill him some night

[blm]

4. heh.....

that sounded just like something MO'D would say. ;)

[mitchum]

7. blm, THAT made my day

I am not worthy! :)

[blm]

10. Here's an added treat

just in case you hadn't seen this....

Taped a few months before he died.


http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/millennium/index_ODonoghue.html

[AnnieBW]

9. Drown him in a bathtub?

Maybe they'll drown him in a bathtub? Or at least some waterboarding - since it isn't considered to be torture. :sarcasm:

Note to mods: I don't advocate killing or torturing anyone. Not even RW-nuts like Grover Norquist.

[meegbear]

3. Why is it everytime I hear his name ...

I think about him in a bathtub? :shrug:

[moosen]

5. One of the most dangerous men in Washington

[BrotherBuzz]

11. Only in his mind...

His stock has dropped precipitously, what with the Abramoff scandal, and all. I wonder how the K Street Project is doing? :rofl:

[TwilightGardener]

6. The only Grover I like to hear from is furry and blue--good times, good times...

[doggyboy]

8. Well, he got one thing about repukes right

"You’ve gotta grade on a curve a little bit."

Yeah, just a leetle

[Orangepeel]

12. Wasn't Norquist on the DC madam's list?

the "head of a think tank" that wasn't famous enough to be outed publicly by ABC?