For God's sake, get off the us-them modality and pay attention to the big picture.
Just as the Catholic Churches fear of bad press was a reason for the failure to deal with the abuse problems, so to your KNEE-JERK defense of Norquist blinds you to the problem. Look what happened to the Catholic Church in this country. "Catholic Priest" has become a synonymm for pedophile. It isn't fair.(It is also not just a Catholic problem. Jews blacks and other groups that are or percieve themselves as persecuted follow the same DESTRUCTIVE behavior.
The Betlway establishment is making the same mistake by not repudiating the Islamists.
I can warn you only so long before your fear or general damage to Republicans and conservatives becomes self-fulfilling.
Cut the cancer out early or late. The need is the same. Only the scope of the damage differs.
Yes, and why is that? You're the one that's pushing the liberal technique which is parallel to the Norquist case- that a few pedophiles in the church, somehow undoes their exemplary record of goodness. You tell me what this sickness is, in the American conservative fraternity, whereby people like yourself will rush to condemn one of our own, and thereby do the liberals' work for them. Even trying to discount the overwheening arrogance and self-satisfaction that shines from your posts, do you *really* think that someone like Norquist would be enabling a Muslim 'fifth column' in your country? Trying to put one over the President, the FBI? Wake up to yourself, mate. There's a billion Muslims out there, and we are going to have to get along with them when this current madness from a tiny percentage settles down.