Grover Norquist talks To Left Wingers

Grover Norquist gave a talk to a bunch of leftists.Here's is explanation of what the Republican Party is:

The modern Reagan Republican Party, the modern conservative movement, if you want to know what it’s going to do … imagine a table and around it are all different groups. And on the issue that brings them to politics, not on everything, but the issue that moves their vote, what they want from the government is to be left alone. Taxpayers -- I run Americans for Tax Reform -- don’t raise my taxes. The Second Amendment community -- I’m on the board of the National Rifle Association -- leave our guns alone. Four million members of the NRA, five million guys with concealed-carry … they don’t go knocking on doors saying you should own guns; they don’t insist public schools teach books with titles like Heather Has Two Hunters. They just … leave us alone and we’re happy. The home-schooling movement, now about two million students, maybe 600,000 parents; the property-rights movement, particularly strengthened after Kelo; the business community that doesn’t want subsidies, they just want to not be taxed and not regulated. The guys who are in Washington asking for checks are not part of the coalition.

And the various communities of faith -- a lot of guys misunderstand the political part: the guys who got active in the late ’70s when they felt, rightly or wrongly, that Carter was going after Christian schools and Christian radio stations. The religious right didn’t get going after God was kicked out of public schools; it didn’t even really get organized after Roe v. Wade. It saw its creation with the fear that the IRS was going after Christian schools and the SEC was coming after Christian radio stations, and that’s when you had the plethora of groups created. It’s a parents’ rights movement and, again you ask them 20 questions, you get some pretty interesting answers. But on the issue that moves their vote … they want to be left alone to practice their religion and raise their kids in that faith and not have schools throwing prophylactics at the kids and stuff. That’s why the right, in the conservative movement and the Republican Party, we’re able to have evangelical Protestants, fundamentalists, and Pentecostals, who don’t agree theologically, and conservative Catholics and orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons who don’t agree on who’s going to Heaven and why, but understand that if they’re gong to be able to raise their kids and go to Heaven, the pagans over there have got to have the same political freedom to go to Hades.

This is long but well worth your time.What the Democrats can learn is open to debate.But,being the party of government workers isn't enough.