tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9768998.post7530191832896609886..comments2024-01-23T05:11:07.849-07:00Comments on RADAMISTO: THIS IS WHERE GROVER GETS HIS MONEYSteve J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05952259820467688797noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9768998.post-7491374959647903182012-12-04T12:32:32.976-07:002012-12-04T12:32:32.976-07:00Yours truly had this question, got this answer.
h...Yours truly had this question, got this answer.<br /><br />http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/in-defense-of-grover-norquist/<br /><br /> amspirnational says: <br />December 3, 2012 at 1:40 pm <br />http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/08/14/grover-norquist-takes-on-the-war-party/<br /><br />Norquist is saying all the right things against interventionism now. Anyone know if he opposed the Iraq War at the outset?<br /><br /> T Paine says: <br />December 4, 2012 at 2:37 am <br />@amspirnational<br /><br />He was not. Norquist to the Washington Post on April 10, 2003:<br /><br />“The Democrats were on the wrong side of the Civil War, the Cold War and now the Iraq War,’ said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and an all-purpose chest-thumper on matters Right Wing. ‘Their batting average on these things is right up there with France.”<br /><br />Norquist is not a principled person. He is a party loyalist pushing a simple, populist message. While I agree with the ultimate goals of small market conservatism, Norquist fails to acknowledge the difference between means and ends, and fails to raise his voice when his own party goes on a spending spree. His advocacy would make a lot of sense in a world where the US government had zero debt and a balanced budget. In the real world, he is nothing but a yahoo.Ken Hoopnoreply@blogger.com