Norquist's no-tax-hike pledge

There's an old saying: Politics makes strange bedfellows.

I believe this axiom explains why the left has seemingly focused so much attention on Grover Norquist's no-tax-hike pledge and helped build him up into a near mythical political figure in the conservative movement – even while Norquist is pandering to the left on so many other issues.

Politics can be a confusing pastime.

Sometimes people are absolutely right about one or more issues and absolutely dead wrong about one or more other issues. This is the case with Grover Norquist. My biting criticisms of him have nothing in common with those Republicans and "conservatives" who are having second thoughts about their no-tax-hike pledge.

Let me say this unequivocally to those Republicans and "conservatives" who are flirting with raising taxes to solve the debt problem: Grover Norquist is right about not raising taxes. Of course taxes should not be raised. That's not even a controversial issue. Taxes could never be raised enough to pay down the debt Republican and Democratic politicians have together saddled the American people with. We should be cutting taxes, not raising them.

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I take a backseat to no one on the tax issue.

But there's a lot more to saving America from the abyss than holding the line on taxes.

• Norquist approved the debt-hike surrender by House Republicans. In fact, I contend he even helped orchestrate it. How meaningful is a pledge not to raise taxes if Republicans are given permission to spend money without regard to revenues? How is that going to achieve Norquist's stated goal of reducing the size of the federal government to the point that it can be "drowned in a bathtub"?
• Norquist's support for GOProud's extremist pro-homosexual, anti-family and anti-conservative agenda speaks for itself.
• Norquist's support for Islamist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups speaks for itself.
• And Norquist's recent courtship with George Soros and other left-wing globalists likewise speaks for itself.

So what's going on here?

What should be the conservative response to Grover Norquist?

Is he a hero for his tax-fighting accomplishments?

Is he really the No. 1 enemy of the left, as his press clippings suggest?

Or is he, as I have suggested, an enemy within the gates of the conservative movement – a Trojan horse that represents a real threat to the political coalition established by Ronald Reagan?

To understand my very serious charge, one needs to grasp the premise that we do not live in an exclusively material world, as Norquist's brand of libertarianism suggests. Tax cuts alone won't save America's soul. That's not to say they are unnecessary. That's not to minimize their importance. And keep in mind, Norquist is not even promoting tax cuts. All he is promoting with his supposedly radical agenda is holding the line on taxes – keeping the rates right where they are!

When you see much of the left-wing media pillory Norquist for his tax pledge, understand that they are serving his interests. Meanwhile, Norquist is actually providing seminars to the left on how to conduct successful political activism.

In other words, Norquist is just a straw man for the left. The real architects of left-wing strategy for this country know that Norquist is not really a threat to their agenda. In fact, he serves it. There is a symbiotic relationship between Norquist and Soros.

Conservatives need to understand this if they are to be the vanguard of a real political counter-revolution that returns America to constitutionally limited government under God.

God help us if Norquist is, indeed, one of the most powerful people inside the conservative movement – and continues to be.