A little late to worry about that!
Posted on 03/18/2016 2:11:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
His newest foreign policy advisor, Frank Gaffney, is a key player in the effort to remove Grover Norquist from the organization's board.
Ted Cruz named Frank Gaffney his foreign policy advisor on Thursday, a move that threatens to involve the Republican presidential contender in a contentious fight to get the party's most prominent anti-tax advocate kicked off the National Rifle Association's board.
Gaffney once worked for President Ronald Reagan's Department of Defense and now runs the Center for Security Policy, a hyper-conservative think tank that promulgates theories about a Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy to infiltrate the U.S. government. The Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed Gaffney "one of America's most notorious Islamophobes." For years, he has also worked to take down an unlikely target: Republican superstar and founder of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist.
Norquist is best known for browbeating GOP lawmakers into signing "The Taxpayer Protection Pledge," which contractually requires them to resist tax increases of almost any sort. But as The Trace reported in February, he also serves on the board of the NRA, and at the moment he is the subject of a recall effort spearheaded by Tea Party icon Glenn Beck. To make his case to his followers, many of whom are affiliated with the NRA, Beck has primarily relied on distorted evidence gathered by Gaffney.
The gist of Beck and Gaffney's beef with Norquist is an assertion that the latter has ties to Islamist extremists, which is a considerable distortion of reality. In the 1990s, Norquist started an organization called the Islamic Free Market Institute (IFMI), with the goal of spreading free market ideas to the Middle East. At times, he crossed paths with some people later identified as extremists -- evidence, according to Beck and Gaffney, that Norquist has conspired with people who want to harm America.
Beck's feud with Norquist dates to at least 2013, and he has advocated since then to boot the anti-tax advocate from the NRA's board. A recall effort, led by Beck, is well underway, and a heated debate has broken out among the organization's members. On the popular firearms enthusiast website Ammoland, there have been posts defending Norquist, and others calling for his dismissal. In February, one commenter wrote, "The NRA better press the issue ... or it will lose tons of members, myself included!"
Whether Gaffney's involvement in the internecine NRA battle has implications for Cruz remains to be seen, but at minimum it promises to make potential conversations with senior NRA members -- and Norquist himself -- more complicated.
Cruz has sought to position himself as the most pro-gun candidate in the election. Yet by hiring Gaffney, Cruz may anger a number of long-serving NRA board members, including David Keene, the organization's president from 2011 to 2013, who have made public statements against the effort to recall Norquist.
Cruz could also lose the support of a man who is a natural ally. In April, on his campaign site, the Republican candidate announced that he had signed Norquist's pledge. As president, the press release read, "he will oppose and veto any all efforts to increase taxes." The release quoted Norquist, who referred to Cruz as a "strong and consistent advocate for taxpayers."
Norquist, with whom I was once acquainted, is beyond a doubt one of the most brilliant political operatives in the nation. However I question his loyalty. I wish he was on our side but do not believe he is. Sharia is incompatible with civilization, and he has shown himself to be a mohammedan sympathizer at least. I think he is married to a Palestinian muslim.
I voted to remove him. I used my own research to come to this conclusion.
I can’t even begin to figure out why the GOPe is so INFATUATED with people who have names like Grover, Rince, Haley, etc.
How about Mike, John, Joe?
While I agree with you in principle , I think that it is helpful to have some staff with 'political acumen ' so that the agenda can get accomplished.
We don't need another guy who thinks he can do it , only to find out later that he lacks the ability or leadership
even if " he is the smartest guy in the room."
We need comprehensive analysis , as well as a method to successfully accomplish that change, in order to redirect the ignorant stupidity of the last 8 years.
"I con" should be tattooed on Beck's idiot forehead.
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/grovermustgo/
...On February 11, 2014, ten influential national security practitioners – including former Congressman Allen West, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, former CIA Director Jim Woolsey, former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz and others – sent a letter to American Conservative Union board member Cleta Mitchell, urging her and her colleagues to take action against Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan, two ACU members who have for years been running influence operations against conservatives on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist causes...
Even if I didn't know Norquist's long history of collaborating with Muslim supremacists... when a writer defends Norquist and attacks Gaffney by citing the the anti-American radicals of SPLC, I would know that Norquist is guilty and Gaffney is not.
“Cruz has sought to position himself as the most pro-gun candidate in the election. Yet by hiring Gaffney, Cruz may anger a number of long-serving NRA board members, including David Keene, the organization’s president from 2011 to 2013, who have made public statements against the effort to recall Norquist. “
That is one of the problems with Cruz. He may have some good intentions, but is not effective.
We all know where a road paved with good intentions lead.
Trump, on the other hand, knows how to accomplish things.
Gaffney’s a good guy
Give me $200 million in my twenties and see what I would’ve accomplished.
Consider the source.
The Trace is an anti-Second Amendment website funded by Bloomberg.
Its entire function is to denigrate and degrade Second Amendment rights.
A little late to worry about that!
“Isn’t Grover pro muslim?”
You Betcha!
Where’d you pick up 200 million? Reading Rubio’s lips again??
A yuuuuge political realignment is taking place in America. I expect various shifts in the political body over the next four years. It will be equivalent to an 8.9 earthquake, with numerous aftershocks. What shakes out in the end nobody knows. I’d guess that we’ll see three trends:
1. Major confrontations by Americans against the local, state and federal fascist bureaucracies.
2. An alliance between American leftists and Middle East jihadists.
3. The dissolution of the American military as members desert, taking various armaments with them, and head home to protect their families.
Give me $200 million in my twenties.....
Most become worthless trustafarians.
Yes, yes, yes and yes!!!!
And you can look it up!!!
“... think tank that promulgates theories about a Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy to infiltrate the U.S. government ...”
I hate to break it to everybody .. but the Muslim Brotherhood has already infiltrated the American government. Is everybody asleep ..??????????
True. Cruz exercizes exceedingly poor judgement.
He is married to one and favors open imkigration...
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