Norquist: Strictly Bush League?

The Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill reports on growing dissatisfaction with Americans for Tax Reform's conservative superorganizer Grover Norquist among his more libertarian-minded erstwhile allies . You can find the headline and first few paragraphs here, but the full text online wasn't accessible (at least from my computer).

I did get to read a non-online version, though, and among the bill of particulars against Norquist is his refusal to publicly oppose Bush's recent Medicare expansion and his support of Sen. Arlen Spector (R-Penn.) against a more conservative, Club for Growth-supported competitor. Speculation in the article is that support for Bush is trumping low-tax, limited-government principles in the self-styled leader of the "Leave Us Alone" Coalition.

Comments

[Isaac Bartram]

http://www.thehill.com/news/032404/norquist.aspx

[Andrew]

I don’t think anybody in these single-interest organisations should be spinning a candidate…but probably most of them will.

[Gene Berkman]

Interesting article proves what I have believed all along – that Grover Norquist uses limited government rhetoric to back pro-government Republicans.

Norquist is also being attacked by David Horowitz for his association with Muslim groups that he has used to promote Arab-American support for the Republican ticket. Front Page has run articles attacking Norquist as a security risk, and specifically mentioned terrorist affiliations of Arab-Americans associated with the Muslim Free Market Institute that Norquist set up.

[Thomas Luedeke]

Grover is a Republicrat, not a libertarian. Why is everyone so upset about him showing his true colors??

[Famous Quote]

Politics makes strange bedfellows, or as Bill Shakespeare originally wrote “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”