[William McKinley]

I'm not sure that the way Norquist has reacted is as revealing as one might think. Imagine for a moment that he was really duped by these folks, and now he's being accused of being an active abetter of terrorists, essentially being accused of treason, for want of a better word. If I were falsely accused, and had been duped myself, I myself might react very badly to charges that I was a knowing accomplice of terrorists. In any case, though, his answer has to be better than "my accusers are racists" - that won't wash.

I agree on all points.

[general_re]

The irony is, if it's the case that he's been duped, most people would be inclined to believe him if he comes clean about it. He dug himself further in with the racism charge, and now he's got a deeper hole to get out of - I freely admit it, when you react like that, it looks really bad. I just want to know that it is that bad before I call out the townspeople with the pitchforks and the torches and the dogs.

And no matter what it turns out to be, that doesn't fix the apparently endemic problem of people getting access who shouldn't have access. Hanging Grover does nothing to prevent this same sort of thing happening next week with someone else. I'm really beginning to dread the idea that we're weeks or months away from finding the modern version of this photo:

[Trollstomper]

"I myself might react very badly to charges that I was a knowing accomplice of terrorists."


You might then a) fess up, b) apolgize to people like Gaffney who you slimed and who had tried to warn you and help you find moderate Muslims c) stop calling Cabinet agencies to arrange more such meetings, as he did two weeks ago. d) you might decide to back off things like holding fundraisers at your house for radicals like Nawash who, i.a., defend Al Qaeda terrorist for a living. (see above thread). But then you'd be a better man the Grover Norquist