All the same, I think orthodox mormons are "theocratic" according to their beliefs and would never say that "no one can have his religious beliefs dictated to him" (even by G-d A-mighty, I suppose). This guy sounds more like Voltaire than Smith.
Then again, it's possible--just possible, mind you--that some of the "social liberals" who are defending Norquist and his moslem allies are anti-Israel "palaeocons."
That would explain why the BigGov neocons are trying to purge anti-tax warrior Norquest.
According to Lind, "The modern conservative brain trust originated in a scheme hatched in the 1970s by William E. Simon, Irving Kristol, and others." The plan was to make conservative intellectuals, hitherto an independent-minded, quirky, and diverse community, a controlled monolith that would function as the reliable tool of the Republican Party. "By the early 1990s, thanks to the success of the Simon-Kristol initiative, almost all major conservative magazines, think tanks, and even individual scholars had become dependent on money from a small number of conservative foundations."
Maybe if Grover *denounced* the paleos it would help him survive the purge?
Then again, it's possible--just possible, mind you--that some of the "social liberals" who are defending Norquist and his moslem allies are anti-Israel "palaeocons."
PaleoConservatives are not "social liberals". They tend tobe civilizational or Christian conservatives. Most belong to the orthodox branches of their faiths. Most Pre-Vatican II Catholics I know are paleos.