An enemy inside the gates

I'm concerned about the health of the conservative movement.

With America at a critical crossroads in the next year, it's more important than ever that conservatives are united, standing tall for their priorities and staying true to their convictions.

That hasn't been the case in recent years. Too often, conservatives are playing follow-the-leader, much like their liberal counterparts. There is not enough discernment at the grass roots. And there is a dearth of information about the absolute corruption of many big-name conservatives running powerful organizations.

We saw a great example of this last year with the Conservative Political Action Conference. Built over many years as the largest annual gathering of conservatives, CPAC reached a low point last year by compromising its values, lowering its standards and allowing a virtual takeover by a group promoting "gay rights" and its supporters, resulting in many of the most influential and solid conservative groups and individuals in the country to drop participation. It was WND's investigative reporting into the corruption within the primary sponsor of CPAC, the American Conservative Union, that led to a major shakeup of leadership and staff. For the complete story of the history, read this story and work your way backwards with the previous links.

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While CPAC is in recovery now for the important 2012 conference in February, there are still many "enemies inside the gate" of the movement – faux conservatives who threaten to derail conservatives from being in the vanguard of the political revolution we need to see in 2012.

Perhaps the best example is Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform. Few inside the conservatives movement know about his ugly connections. Fewer still will talk about them in anything other than hushed, whispered tones. But it is imperative that grass-roots conservatives from coast to coast understand who he is and what he is doing in his privileged positions and broad network built over a lifetime of political activism.

Let me start by making what will undoubtedly be a shocking statement for many: I don't believe Grover Norquist is a conservative at all. I don't doubt he was in the past. But today he is a professional activist with goals and motivations other than bringing America back to limited constitutional government under God, which is what conservatism is, or should be, all about.

As I've written before, I think it's past time for the conservative movement to dump Grover Norquist. In fact, if it doesn't, I am certain what he represents will render the movement ineffectual – or worse.

Here's a website set up to explore the truth about Norquist, something most of the media – left, right and center – refuse to do.

Last week, Commentary Magazine reported Norquist spoke to the left-wing Democracy Alliance at its invitation-only conference for top Democratic donors. Norquist was reportedly there to advise influential progressives – including an adviser to George Soros – about how to create a successful political organizing strategy.

Last month, he was out in Detroit advising Islamist leaders at a conference by the Council of American Islamic Relations.

According to some Washington conservative insiders, Soros himself has actually attended Norquist's regular Wednesday morning briefing.

Some time ago, Norquist also joined the advisory board of GOProud, the group that caused such division over the previous two years within the conservative movement.

Could it be that Norquist is not what he pretends to be at all? Is he just an ideological fence-straddler or worse? Has he just been in Washington too long or is he there with an insidious purpose that only a person with impeccable conservative credentials could pull off?

While the media portray Norquist as an intransigent fiscal conservative, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, he was one of the architects of the capitulation by Republicans on the debt-limit compromise last August.

I'm convinced.

Norquist has ridden a Trojan horse inside the gates of the conservative movement.