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Brent Bozell discusses whether conservatives have learned anything from 2006 and 2008's election disasters. He even cites Grover Norquist, the apologist for Islam whom Frank Gaffney boldly discussed several years earlier and even more recently, and how Norquist has added one more questionable act to his record:

Comes now the news that fiscal conservative leader Grover Norquist, a man who prides himself on forming grand working coalitions, has joined the board of a group called GOProud, calling the group “an important part of the conservative movement” with a commitment to “core conservative values.”

It’s a gay group. And Norquist thinks social conservatives are going to accept this absolute abandonment?

Traditional marriage and the right of religious people to speak out against homosexuality as a sin are “core conservative values.” Proposition 8 in California — defending the institution of marriage, the only thing the GOP won in 2008 — was victorious because culturally conservative blacks and Hispanics joined the GOP coalition.

Norquist wants to take the GOP in the exact opposite direction now, full speed ahead, the consequences be damned.

He already has taken things in the opposite direction if he's going to help Islam make inroads into American institutions, and that's even more troubling than this news. This current matter might raise eyebrows for the right reasons, but even so, it's Norquist's support for Islam and even open borders that warrants major attention. Not to worry, Bozell has cited that part too:

Norquist is a man with a quixotic passion for trying to build strange coalitions by selling out core conservative principles. He doesn’t think opposing the excesses of sex, violence, and filthy language on television is a conservative value, even when tens of millions of impressionable children are being poisoned by these messages. He suggested “damn close to nobody” in the movement agreed with issuing real fines for broadcast indecency — this after a completely lopsided 391-22 House vote in favor in 2004 and before the 379-35 vote in 2006 that led to Bush signing the bill.

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He tried to build a large Republican bridge to radical Muslim Americans, which hasn’t exactly been the most promising of outreach projects. He has repeatedly welcomed lobbyists for legalized marijuana to his Wednesday morning meeting in Washington. He helped organize a Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles to support amnesty for illegal aliens, which conservative activist Mark Krikorian called “the Republican Auxiliary of the left’s open border movement.” His clumsy attempts to build a “big tent” often appear more likely to spur large chunks of conservatives to leave the tent than bring new constituencies into the tent.

Now, Norquist has declared open war on social conservatives. Note to Chairman Steele: If he succeeds, and they leave the party, the GOP is ruined.

Yes, Steele, pay sharp attention now, if you don't want the grassroots crowd to really end up frowning. It is Norquist who needs to leave the party, for all the damage - and dhimmitude - he's doing.

Labels: immigration, islam, political corruption, United States