"Maybe you were always closed minded and anti-muslim, or anti-immigrant."
Er, no I wasn't. If I was I certainly would have said "I told you so". In addition to having lived across the street from one of the men who bombed the WTC the first time (the one who went back for the truck deposit, iirc), I saw the attack on 9/11 with my own eyes, I went through some pretty tremendous mind changes in a very short time that day. As I say, in my mind the jury is still out on Muslims, although for the record, the Islamofacists from Africa to the Middle East to Europe to the Americas to the Pacific stand convicted as charged. On immigration, despite a lifetime of being basically an open borders advocate (with no undue financial benefits that is, I always used to say "I should have the right to go to Sri Lanka and be a cab driver, I don't have the right to go there and be on welfare" and of course no bi-lingual education, etc.) I instantly realized that our defacto open borders policy was killing Americans.
I don't need to dissemble to you or to anyone else, and I resent your implication that I did so.
Btw, I think you left out the link to the Norquist article. If you re-post I'll check it out.
Sorry, here is the link:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010514&s=dreyfuss
The story really shows what Grover's agenda is. He's willing to accept anybody into his 'center-right' coalition, provide they are willing to support his agenda. It's not unlike Reagan's saying regarding campaign donors - (paraphrased) 'it's not that I accept their agenda, it's that they've accepted mine.'