Norquist describes Obama as 'John Kerry with a tan'
By Steve Benen Thursday Jun 26, 2008 5:00pm
Grover Norquist has quite a history of being unhinged. He’s said the Estate Tax is morally equivalent to the Nazi Holocaust; he’s called WWII veterans “anti-American,” and he’s called bipartisanship “another name for date rape.”
But this clown isn’t done pushing the envelope.
Norquist dropped by The Times’ Washington bureau today and, as part of his negative critique of Obama’s liberal stances on economic issues and other matters, he termed the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee “John Kerry with a tan.”
Since Norquist isn’t running for anything, he can get away with such remarks; we doubt McCain will be incorporating the line into his speeches anytime soon.
Greg Sargent responded, “Guess it could have been worse. He could have termed the Illinois Senator ‘John Kerry in blackface.’ Such admirable restraint on Norquist’s part!
It's worth keeping in mind that John McCain has been cozying up to Norquist lately. Maybe some enterprising young political reporter can ask why McCain would want to be associated with this clown.
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Grover Norquist is just a muppet without a costume.
No, he's a bullshit salesman giving away free samples.
May i describe Grover Norquist without being banned?
Please?
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Nevermind. It is too much to ask.
And Grover Norquist is . . . oh hell, it's just WAY too easy.
You make em dumb, we make em republican dumb.
Holy Crap! What Balls. I think I'm speechless, or rather typeless!
If you are going be called a name... you could do alot worse than John Kerry
Unless he can prove otherwise, Grover Norquist is a pedophile.
These surrogates for McCain are the gifts that keep on giving. This is excellent. Please corporate media, let Romney and Norquist blab about McCain.
this clown is a NEOCON cheerleader.........both rude and disrespectful......
Poetic justice would be for Grover Norquist to slip in a bathtub and drown. Unfortunately this typically troubling wing nut is taken seriously by the corporate media. They see him as a real power broker. In any Western European nation he would be seen for the kook he is. America has become marginalized by the rightwingers that have been driving policy for far too long. When will the U.S. grow up?
poor little norquist, so desperate for anyone to care what he thinks
go on, grovie, i'll listen to your little-wittle temper tantrum. there, there
Let's see if i can do it.
Grover Norquist is as dense as lead only more oblique
St. Paul Scout @ 8:
I heard it was necrophilliac.
DoubleBarrellBunnyAnger @ 7:
Or Tan. Or Black.
Norquist is Steppin' Fetchit widout the tan.
So McCain is Bush's old confused uncle?
if he's Kerry with a tan than....
Grover Norquist is the klan without the sheet
karl @ 10:
he sure is.
which is another way of saying that he is a completely discredited hypocrite.
That does it! I'm calling Cookie Monster to give this fool a good spanking.
xoites defends Constitution @ 15:
... agreed, as long as it's genetic and not overexposure
I do believe, in fact, that Norquist is at present small enough to be drowned in a bathtub, though it might be more fun to make him clean out portapotties for a few years.
DoubleBarrellBunnyAnger @ 21:
Norquist is way over expossed. The media should have ignored him a long time ago.
I always thought of Norquist as a "Defecating Asshole with a Beard".
Coming from a Grand Wizard with white robes and a pointy hood I guess that was rather restrained.
Add him to the long list of dbags {Deleted. Please don't advocate violence at this site. Thank you. Site Monitor]!
And McGrampa is a corpse with a pulse.
So Obama's the equivalent of a guy who actually fought a war without technically losing it or getting caught by the enemy, and that's a bad thing? I guess we should all pick the guy who lost two wars in the same lifetime.
xoites defends Constitution @ 4:
Let it rip. :)
before i paste this, please forgive me. i submit this for a reason.
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The modern Democratic Party cannot survive the reelection of President George W. Bush and another four years of Republican control of both Congress and the White House.
No brag. Just fact.
The modern Democratic Party is the party of government. Its growth is the health of the state--and vice versa. Over time, all the party's building blocks are dependent on continuous support and reinforcement by the power of the central government.
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this was written by norquist before the 04 election. and i wanted to show those who aren't as familiar with this buffoon just what a genius we are dealing with here.
it is so absurdly easy to obliterate the entire essence (see, poo smell) of norquist. he is constantly wrong, hypocritical and simple-minded
i, for one, hope that norquist is given plenty of airtime in support of mccain. it will only hurt mccain.
Wasn't there an investigation involving Norquist? I remember he was really close to that idiot Ralph Reed who lost his House bid. Wasn't he invoved with Abramoff?
It just goes to show how far a guy can go with a Harvard degree and a good line of B.S.
As vision of Rapture turns to rupture the Reagan Reactionaries will retreat there historic redoubt of racism and rascality.
I don't get it - John Kerry has a great tan.
Grover Norquist is full of shit, as usual.
Yep, estate tax = holocaust. Do you need any other evidence of moral bankruptcy?
Grover Norquist: Another member of the greedy, self-serving, trustfund wanker babies. Grow up you human piece of trash.
Oddly enough, I've described Grover Norquist as a waddling half-wit.
Ever notice how Republicans are naturally attracted to and by default choose ignorant and mediocre people to fill their ranks?
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Norquist is race baiting the Nation...
When can we ban him, too?
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P.D. @ 31:
In a just country, Norquist would be serving time for money laundering, bribery, and campaign finance violations. Of course, he could share a cell with Rove. I think Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush would be headed to the gallows.
Shorter Norquist: "WAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! I want more money. WAAAAAAAHHHHH!!"
Why do people like Norquist - the whole pack of conservative think-tank drones, pundits, lobbyists, scholars, strategists, political consultants, etc - have so much influence?
So many of these bastards have never been elected to any office, worked in real jobs, or actually had to turn their theories in to working policies. So many of these government-hating toadies have no private sector experience at all, amazingly enough.
The most concrete form of employment Norquist, Frum, Noonan, etc, etc, have actually had seems to be as editorial columnists, speechwriters, think-tank 'fellows' and 'consultants'.
They inhabit a bubble, an abstract right-wing alternate universe. They aren't practical, problem-solving people, they're just hollow ideologues.
Why are they allowed to function unchallenged??
What do you expect from a man who has spent his entire life fighting to reduce the estate tax on the inheritance he's set to recieve upon his father's death. Any bets that when this man is looking back at his life he'll feel shame for spending 40 years doing nothing of use for anyone else in society except his other trust fund baby friends?
OK! so who didn't expect racism from a republican?
who?
really?
Good to hear these kind of remarks from the "inner core" of the GOP. It tells me we are on track. I want to hear more of them, I want a tidal wave of these kind of remarks. Please, please, keep em coming. The problem is they have gone to the well one too many times. They have gotten used to these tricks working and don't know any other way of doing business. I doubt they can adapt. Should have studied Darwin more closely.
Grover Norquist looks like Jonah Goldberg on crack (Lucianne's?).
A few years ago, in the good old days, they would lock up a dangerous man like Norquist for his own good. Keep him medicated, sedated, drooling in his pablum.
Now they let these guys roam the streets begging to be noticed. How the mighty have fallen.
Grover Norquist is like Ayn Rand without the penis!
Grover Norquist is a sock monkey with a leaking colostomy bag.
Grover Norquist is Eva Braun with a beard.
This is fun.
Grover Norquis is only pasty colored because
he just spends to much time in a hony bucket
eating his lunch.
Grover Norquist again... Ya know, it's way too late now, but maybe it's not the government who should have been weakened till it could be drowned in the bathtub..... Know what I mean? Now? I'd settle for someone just smacking some sense into that idiot..... Or better yet, just booting his ass off the public stage and radar. Then he can think whatever tripe he wants to in the privacy of his own hovel.. He's another numbnut ego maniac whose shit I am getting tired of hearing about every 15 minutes as he trolls for another moment in the public spotlight...JD
Correction. . . Obama is much worse than Kerry.
Jack Damage @ 50:
Yeah, they talk that 'drowning gov't in the bathtub' nonsense until they're blue in the face.
Except when the financial system hits the wall, then they're all for massive government intervention to bail out overextended banks and brokerage houses. Private business is their holy grail, until it's going bust. Then, just go ahead and nationalize it, using taxpayer dollars.
Except when tax dollars go to support the Military Industrial Complex, and its brand new subsidiary branch led by Blackwater and KBR. Everything else drowns in the bathtub but them.
That's funny, considering his wife is Palestinian. I wonder if ignorant people have remarked about her "tan".
Let's not take the bait and make Norquist a "victim" of "political correctness." The appropriate response to his comparison is, "You wish."
why is it that many of obama's supporters can only call names and make vulgar remarks (instead if speaking to issue and substance)? you are just contributing to obama's already rising loss of support. very unwise.
Norquist is a pedophile with a speaking gig.
SlowBurn @ 55:
Because Norquist has no substance. A spoiled, selfish trust-fund baby who doesn't want to pay his share. He should be marginalized all the time.
Norquist has the IQ of a baked potato.
Grover Norquist..... the same Grover Norquist that said he wanted to make OUR government so small that he could drown it in a bathtub... and since he's Republican that's not considered a terrorist statement... but if I said it I'd be in Gitmo by sundown and never seen again...
The same Grover Norquist that said - TRUE STATEMENT - that he wanted to put Reagan on the ten dollar bill because it is the only bill without a president on it!
And he was and/or is part of a group that wants Reagan put on Mt. Rushmore - which I personally believe is an insult to rock formations everywhere...
So why does anyone pay any attention to this shit weasel?
JudyLou @ 58:
Close.
I would say soap dish.
Isn't Grover Norquist the one who had Huckabee under his spell with his "l'll abolish the IRS platform and substitute with a flat tax?" The Republican primaries seem like eons ago, but I somehow recall Huckabee invoking his name favorably in an interview.
Why, because he isn't running for anything, can Grover Norquist say something like that without somebody just bitch-slapping the little turd til he weeps???
Grover Norquist is in a position to challenge WWII veterans on what's pro- or anti-American how?
It's amazing which types of flaming balls of ass-hair can carry clout in Washington.
Shit weasels like Norquist will be given all of the media time that they want from Profitmedia because of their message. The "message" implicit in their "no government" crap has a lot to do with deregulation - and corporomedia loves their dee-regulation. They believe that wealthy corporations (and people) are too important to worry about following any laws. Laws are for the rest of us peasants.
Sounds like fun. OK, Grover Norquist is Grizzly Adams with a head like a f@cking orange.
(No insult to Karl Pilkington intended)
yeah, and McCain is Bob Dole without the viagra
The only un-American thing I see here is Grover Norquist.
xoites defends Constitution @ 3:
Fair enough Site Monitor, I agree with your warning, but consider this:
If things continue like this in our country and the neo-cons get their way, advocating violence will be our only option.
I know Lincoln and his forebearers, the founding fathers, would agree with me.
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yeah well since we are doing critiques i have to say that grover norquist would be more useful if he were worm food.
otherwise he is just here on this earth to cause pain and misery and to make our system run poorly so that the small few can steal from the many.
in the biblical sense he is satans little helper. a demon.
I keep wondering how people like this get a pulpit.
It is funny that all neo-con spokesmen like Rove, Norquist etc. are intellectually and physically so incredibly unattractive. I think they are trying to make up in their older age, for a 'deserved' lack of attention during their childhood. And even now they have to go to incredible extremes to get any attention. If they were not so dangerously dumb, you almost feel sorry for them. But instead they deserve a powerful spanking.
Grover is like a Jeff Gannon... without the White House press pass.
Norquist is David Vitter without the diaper.
AC @ 52;
Damned right Annoyed Canuck... Funny (but not the ha ha kind)how that shit works huh....JD
Grover Norquist is a racist with a beard.
BTW Wobbly-excellent!
What the fuck is a grover norquest? What huge hurdle did grover help mankind overcome ?
Please. His name is "Grover." I don't think anyone with the name of a Sesame Street character is in the position to criticize anyone... about anything. For those of you about to point out "...bbbbbut...Grover Cleveland!" SFW? He was a loser, just like this grover, who supports the worst president this country's ever had.
Frank @ 60:
you two are a riot........i just laughed my head off.
That';s funny, just last night I described Grover Norquist as a DICK with glasses... go figure.
"Grover Norquist has quite a history of being unhinged. He’s said the Estate Tax is morally equivalent to the Nazi Holocaust; he’s called WWII veterans “anti-American,” and he’s called bipartisanship “another name for date rape.”
Then, why do we have to waste time on him?
Why doesn't he just call Sen. Obama "black face"?
@54, VM Says:
Let’s not take the bait and make Norquist a “victim” of “political correctness.” The appropriate response to his comparison is, “You wish.”
Funny, he doesn't look "You wish..."
First Limbaugh, then Nader, and now Norquist. And it's only June. The neocons and Republicans want Obama to come and play in the sewer with them..
What do you expect from someone whose idea for reducing the deficit and balancing the budget is to close 29 states?
Obama has been called worse things by better people.
Who is this person and why does he matter? Saddled with a name like "Grover", I'd want to keep a low profile.
SteamRanger @ 86:
He is the guy who said, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
It has been the NeoCon Credo except when it comes to War, Homeland Lockdown and Torture camps. He only meant it to apply to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Education, and infrastructure. You know, things he considers irrelevant.
Where's the banana cream pie when you need one?
People this far right are irrelevant in today's political climate of the repug brand being in the toilet and Bush's 23% cretin support.
I volunteer to do America a solid: Can I please drown Grover Norquist in a bathtub?
Pretty please?????
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Estate tax is much like the tax on Lottery income.
"UNEARNED INCOME."
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"Grover" Norquist for VP !!!
p l e a s e
Grampa probably doesn't remember going after him re Abramoff but there must be clips of those Senate hearings.
left of center @ 18:
LOL, that's a keeper.
norquist and rove couldnt do shit without their talk radio monopoly and its uncontested repetition to 50-7MIL americans- that was their pipeline through a pack of blowhards who were given the biggest soapbox in the country when reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine and the GOP moneybags bought up every AM station they could so now 400 limbaugh stations means 8 per state selling norquist simplistic black and white don't worry about nature garbage.
Grover Norquist has alot of issues he likes to keep in the closet...where's Mike Rogers on this clown....
Ok....this jackass right wingnut waste of existence...
1) Best buddies with convicted felon Jack Abramoff, birds of a feather.... Tom Delay speaks 'highly of him'...boy...with credentials like that :)
2) Hates 'paying taxes' but loves corporate welfare...and socialized chapter 11/bankruptcy protections...Um = Hypocrite.
3) American Express, NRA, & Microsoft are his pimps....um = high maintenance whore for corporate pilfering of middle class. He's a high dollar K Street thug for hire...in a nutshell.
4) His comparison of the 'Estate Tax' to the Holocaust...stupid on a level that is incalculable. A comparison....on par with his stupidity...comparing Britney Spears losing custody of her kids to the Native Americans losing the North American continent...
5) Masquerading as a 'family values' 'christian right' (gay hating) moral champion, he has been a Keynote speaker for the Log Cabin Republicans, one of the founders of the Republican Unity Coalition (RUC - google or wiki for more details - basically a 'front' for 'reaching out to gay republicans, ie self haters), 'good friends' with closeted homosexual GOP staples Lindsey Graham & Ron Nehring.
Married an Arab woman from Kuwait, who is a CEO (gee imagine that...married into money) of her own communications company (a Republican 'free market' outreach venture to promote 'free markets' in the Islamic states of the Middle East. Started the Islamic Free Market Institute with his wife & her Republican fundraising Palestinian born business partner. They seem to all be a thieving bunch of hypocrites as they have no problems whatsoever financing anti-muslim bigotry ads promoted by the GOP and the right wingnut con-servative anti-muslim platforms that the party runs on. Hypocrisy at its finest for all of the above...
Basically his hypocrisy beyond his own life is his philosophy for 'Democracy'...free market profits, socialized losses.... All the rewards and minimalized risk...gee...the American dream for corporations, individuals...can go screw themselves...
Exhibit 101A - why con-servatives & right wingnuts are morons for 'looking up' to this bozo...
Oh...almost forgot, if the above doesn't 'do it' for you...
He also helped to bankroll the defense of convicted GOP pedophile, Robin Vanderwall....who also happened to money launder on the side for Jack Abramoff
Culture of Corruption = GOP, its that simple. And people are catching on...
GROVER!
Obama will bring change. The next four years of lies will come out of a black head instead of a white one. While this may be a startling visual display, the policy decisions will not alienate the Beltway and Wall Street bosses. The 111th will see to that.
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 46:
Or mAnn Coulter.
This idiot Grover Norquist likes being a mad dog for the wealthy. They pride themselves on advocating the most selfish and immoral ideas of the rich...like no inheritance tax on their little kiddies. All the superior rich people want to pass their fortunes onto their undeserving kids, who stand a good chance of becoming morally bankrupt criminals if they're given too much in life for free. You know, like loads of money they didn't earn.
Tax the rich to hell and back!
fuck grover norquist to hell and back. fuck anyone who
still supports this vile corrupt regime to hell and back.
This is what happens when republicans forget to take their meds.
*sigh*
Norquist is Jeff Gannon's erection, without the pixelation.
McCain is nothing but a piece of shit with a human body wrapped around it.....
I've got a lengthy post about this up at http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/06/americas-other-cold-war.html . Give it a read.
Does anyone listen to this idiot?
It is now a proven scientific fact that being republican is proof positive of insanity.
republican = insanity!
Ralph Nader is a big fan of Grover's.
"Since Norquist isn’t running for anything, he can get away with such remarks"
Say what?!?!
Why can he get away? Why is he not shamed in public, why does he still have an opinion that is heard by anyone?
There somuch dirty laundary made on public square about so many people, why not about these side-line snipers? These party soldiers (left or right) that keep denegrating democracy...
Put this asshole in a 99.998% tax bracket, retroactive to the day Reagan took office! That would probably kill the little SOB!
Ah, Grover - he can always be relied upon to keep the dark, evil heart of modern conservatism on full display.
Norquist's inherited wealth allows him to sit around and pontificate. When he feels as if he's becoming irrelevant, or his book sales are slumping, he hops in his limo and rolls over to the Washington Times to get some free publicity.
Most people have to take out a full page ad in a major newspaper to spew hyperbole about a product. Norquist has his own advertising agency in the Washington Times. Norquist's "Kerry with a Tan" comment is really all about Norquist. He's selling a product: his own outrageousness. He knows what sells his books. It's him.
This piece of work was described by David Brock in his book, 'Blinded By The Right', as having a father who would take little Grover's ice cream cone and take bites out of it, claiming that each bite was a tax increase from the Govt.
Then Grover went on to prominence in the Young Republicans with Ralph Reed and Jack Abramoff in the 1980's.
With such a pedigree, no wonder Grover is a souless shell of a human being!
Mike A @ 112:
I had the misfortune of attending some young republican meetings. They are some of the most morally bankrup human beings I have ever met.
It's funny how those folks can try to undermine America, and still be called Americans. I would call them a few other things, like: Greedy, war mongering, murdering traitors.
Better than Dan Quayle with skin cancer and wrinkles.
Isn't this the same knob gobbler that he wanted to make the US Government small enough to drown in a bathtub?
Norquist is the slickest, most effective operative the GOP has and that includes Rove.
He can talk the skin off a snake, reach into your pocket, pull out your wallet,
smile, take your money and put it back in your pocket. That is what the GOP
has done for 8 yrs and effectively got away with it. That is the power of their
party. They will make this country as ungovernable as
possible, tell you what they're doing and get away with it.
This was written by a conservative about Norquist. How did Grove get away with it?
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/01/has-grover-norquist-dropped-the-...
Norquist was just dropped by the LA Times which leads me to the
bottom of the piss bucket The Worldnet Daily which sported such luminaries
as Pat Boone and Walker, Texas Ranger and maybe this is the guy who wrote
their columns for them...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=21574
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