Republican Adultery is a Sign of Electoral Virility

Here’s some delusional for you. Grover Norquist doesn’t think the Ensign and Sanford sex scandals are a bad sign.

“I disagree with the idea that this shows problems for the modern Republican Party,” said Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, a group that applauded Mr. Sanford’s attempt to refuse some federal stimulus funds earlier this year. In reference to the fiscally conservative philosophies of Mr. Ensign and Mr. Sanford, he joked, “I think instead it shows that sexual attractiveness of limited-government conservatism.”

See, what happened was that Ensign and Sanford espoused limited-government conservative principles which made them irresistible to the opposite sex. If they had, say, espoused big-government conservative principles like George W. Bush, no women would have been attracted to them and no adultery could have occurred. And since one woman agreeing to sleep with you is the equivalent of all women wanting to vote for you, these affairs really demonstrate the potent and virile appeal of the Republican platform.

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.