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.
Easy. We know that the left will use a single transgressor to smear us all. Thus we have both a moral and tactical reason to expunge those who hurt us.
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?
Pride, self-deception, and failure to account for the future are universal human failings.
Character is shown in how one responds to mistakes. Norquist responded by using PC spin to smear his critics rather than look at his new friends.
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.
The road to hell is paved by good intentions.
The reality is that by failing to differentiate between Muslims and Islamists, we are ensuring that Islamism spreads both in this country and around the world.
The fear is self-fulfilling as it radicalizes the Muslims so that reasonable protections are seen as illegitimate attacks.
Forget the Left.
Your kind of 'conservative' does more damage from within than they could dream of.