GROVER REALLY IS LYING PIG

In an op-ed in the WaPo, Grover Norquist tries to glorify Karl Rove. One of the most atrocious lines:

Rove's second big accomplishment was the 2000 Republican primary. ... after losing New Hampshire with this strategy, he reenergized the entire Reagan coalition in South Carolina and beyond.

Here's what Rove did to McCain in South Carolina:

As for the Waterloo of South Carolina, most of the facts are well-known, and among this group of Republicans, what happened has taken on the air of an unsolved crime, a cold case, with Karl Rove being the prime suspect. Bush loyalists, maybe working for the campaign, maybe just representing its interests, claimed in parking-lot handouts and telephone "push polls" and whisper campaigns that McCain's wife, Cindy, was a drug addict, that McCain might be mentally unstable from his captivity in Vietnam, and that the senator had fathered a black child with a prostitute. Callers push-polled members of a South Carolina right-to-life organization and other groups, asking if the black baby might influence their vote. Now here's the twist, the part that drives McCain admirers insane to this very day: That last rumor took seed because the McCains had done an especially admirable thing. Years back they'd adopted a baby from a Mother Teresa orphanage in Bangladesh. Bridget, now eleven years old, waved along with the rest of the McCain brood from stages across the state, a dark-skinned child inadvertently providing a photo op for slander.
SOURCE: ESQUIRE, January 1, 2003, Why Are These Men Laughing?

VOTERS WERE TOLD THAT MCCAIN WAS A LIAR, A HYPocrite, a philanderer and a jerk. They were told he was not a hero at all but a Manchurian Candidate, brainwashed or broken in captivity and sent home to betray his comrades in arms. They were told that he had had sex with some of his jailers; that he had married a drug addict; that he had had extramarital affairs, one with the singer Connie Stevens; and that he had arranged a murder to cover his tracks. They were informed that the McCains had adopted a black child (an allusion to their dark-skinned 8-year-old Bridget, whom his wife, Cindy, had brought home from one of Mother Teresa's orphanages in Bangladesh). They were told that Bridget actually was not Bangladeshi at all but McCain's own love child, one of several he had sired with American black hookers. They were told that the McCains had to adopt because he had infected Cindy with a venereal disease that destroyed her uterus.

SOURCE: Pumping iron, digging gold, pressing flesh
Evan Thomas. Newsweek. New York: Nov 20, 2000.Vol.136, Iss. 21; pg. 50, 9 pgs