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Related: About this forumGrover gets weird
What's with the lobbyist's creepy sexual allusions about Republicans who might stray from his no-tax pledge?
BY JOAN WALSH
The most important point to make about the spectacle of Grover Norquist being repudiated by some Republicans who signed his pledge is that its mainly theatre. Norquist is on the ropes now and its seems OK to punch him, in front of the cameras; in private, some Republicans may well be reassuring him that theyre sticking to the pledge, because they are, more or less.
Still, Norquist is obviously feeling personally disrespected, and hes replying with some weird sexual imagery in chastening Republican apostates. A few have had impure thoughts, Norquist told CNN, but no Republican has voted for a tax increase. Really? Impure thoughts? Then he attacked New York Rep. Peter King for publicly stating he didnt consider the no-tax pledge a lifelong vow. in creepy personal terms: Shame on him, Norquist told Piers Morgan. I hope his wife understands that commitments last a little longer than two years or something.
His wife? Is Norquist implying the pledge is akin to a marriage vow? Or that King is married to him? The volatile King shot back Tuesday, calling Norquist a low life for comparing his supposed weaseling out of his no-tax pledge to violating his marriage vows to his wife.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer gleefully took up Norquists marital imagery, claiming Republicans no longer want to be married to this pledge theyre saying they want a divorce from Grover Norquist.
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http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/grover_gets_weird/
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Grover gets weird (Original Post)
DonViejo
Nov 2012
OP
The guy is not well, really! Also shows some republicans are incapable of leadership. They
RKP5637
Nov 2012
#2
Grover is in full flail mode since the election, along with many other Republics.
yellowcanine
Nov 2012
#7
Epiphany4z
(2,234 posts)1. he is one weird
guy..he gives off that creepy uncle vibe...ick
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)8. +1 nt
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)2. The guy is not well, really! Also shows some republicans are incapable of leadership. They
knuckle under to what someone tells them to do and are afraid of true leadership and are easily pushed around.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)3. I think Grover threatens them with blackmail, when he says “impure thoughts”
Mponti
(163 posts)4. He's a 'poopey head' too
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)6. I believe the proper spelling is "poopy".
But Dan Quayle may spell it poopey - he likes to add an e to words for some reason.
Kablooie
(18,635 posts)10. I thought it was poopee. It has a kind of symmetry written that way.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)13. Does that rhyme with toupee?
BillStein
(758 posts)5. Do you get the feeling
that grover was picked on a lot as a kid? Between the name, the cartoon voice and the weak chin?
hell, I would have beaten that creep up after school, and I'm a pacifist
Dulcinea
(6,651 posts)11. Definitely.
And now he's getting back at all the kids who picked on him & the girls who guffawed when he asked them out.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)7. Grover is in full flail mode since the election, along with many other Republics.
He should not be held responsible for everything he says right now.
courseofhistory
(801 posts)9. Do you mean
weird-ER?
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Politicub
(12,165 posts)12. The norquist meltdown is delicious to witness
Lex
(34,108 posts)14. Just a matter of time before Norquist is found with a hooker, a vat of green jello, and a whip.
Or something like that. He sounds like weirdo.