Whoooooooooops Your Party Is Full of Bigots!

[Trigger warning for Islamophobia, mention of sexual violence.]

Reporting from the Freedom Federation's "The Awakening 2011" conference ("Raising Our Voices: Equipping and empowering a New Revolution / Because our Faith matters. Because our Freedom matters."—sure), Think Progress' Scott Keyes shares a delightful tale of anti-Sharia activist Frank Gaffney and anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist getting all up in each other's grills about just how much bigotry in the GOP is too much. Or whatever.

Norquist has HAD IT with these extremists, people! And to put that into perspective, let us recall that Norquist has famously said shit like: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." And: "Bipartisanship is another name for date rape."

Now he's a Republican moderate.

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