Upon being asked to comment on the extramarital adventures of
South Carolina's Republican governor Mark Sanford, tax
fighter Grover Norquist was blunt:
"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."