Echopraxia

The always-engaging Grover Norquist does some community outreach at the American Prospect. While finessing his positions on immigration (essentially "I would like to punch Tom Tancredo in the face.") and gay marriage, he comes up with this inspiring anecdote:

I think it's a mistake to write off any group. I was in Romania, they're having elections in four weeks, and I was organizing the non-communists. And I had them write on a blackboard Who's Voting for Us, Who's Voting for Them. And they had to list ... understand why everybody was. They had the gypsies voting for the communists, and I said, "OK, I get why the Communists are voting for the Communists, and the Army and the police and the guys with government jobs, but why the gypsies?" If I were a gypsy I'd want to live outside touchy-feely U.S. law, much less harsher communist law. And they said, "Well, the communists buy them liquor and then they vote for them." And I said, "We can do this; George Washington did this, it's OK." And they said, "No, the gypsies are scum and we won't talk to them." And I said, "OK, I guess you're not getting the gypsy vote then."

My proposal: make this a reality show. Send Grover Norquist around the world to advise political groups, license something by the Ramones for the theme song, and suddenly C-SPAN has higher ratings than that Frankenstein network that used to be the WB.