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expected. As far as branding goes, I think it’s pretty powerful,” she says. Higgins considers the pledge so ef-


fective that she has adopted it in the fi ght against Obamacare. Her orga- nization’s pledge asks candidates to vow to repeal the law Democrats just barely squeezed through Congress us- ing reconciliation. Norquist says those who criticize


the pledge are really criticizing it “for its eff ectiveness and its clarity.”


He also doesn’t believe Democrats


are serious when they dangle spend- ing cuts in return for GOP fi ngerprints on tax hikes. He likens the idea of ex- changing tax hikes for spending cuts to “a deep desire to believe in unicorns.” Norquist disagrees with those who


claim 2012 will be the singular elec- tion that decides whether America preserves its entrepreneurial spirit, or slides into the welfare-state medioc- rity of Spain, Greece, and Portugal.


Each election between now and


2020 will be important, he says, add- ing, “We will in 2020 be looking either at a country that’s going to be Reagan Republican in its approach, or Euro- pean socialist.” But ultimately, he says, he’s op-


timistic because “this is the United States of America, this isn’t Finland, this isn’t France. The people voting are Americans, and we have a history of not wanting to go there.”


GROVER’S GRIDLOCK


When tax-and-spenders flooded his of ice with


mail, Norquist bundled the


form letters into canvas sacks labeled “Gridlock Grover.” He put them under a tree to celebrate Christmas.


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