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Norquist gets the Vapers

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Speaking as a terminally uppity liberal who built a shrine to Obama made out of tofu, Bibles and confiscated guns, I will be seriously pissed off if the GOP adopts this brilliant Norquistian statergery.

“I think that the next election, at the presidential level, and a lot of other levels, is going to be determined by the vaping community,” said Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform. “Lifestyle issues win because of the power of the political support behind them,” he said.

See for example all of those elections that were swung by outraged tobacco smokers who’d been deprived of their God given right to smoke in places like hospitals and banks. (As an aside, I do like to think smokers’ rights helped some people quit. I know I felt deeply embarrassed when feeding my addiction became associated with dimwit tools of the tobacco industry who claimed the Constitution protected smoking. Or something.)

[Update – To clarify, Norquist is blatting about the FDA’s proposed rule that would expand its authority over cigarettes, cigarette tobacco and so on to include currently unregulated products such as pipe tobacco and e-cigarettes.]

“Vaping is not a product. It is a movement. It is a community, it is a political movement in support of a community and it’s changing the country in very good ways,” he said at a reception during a two-day lobbying effort on Capitol Hill by the association last week.

For example, you don’t have to worry about e-cigs getting damp and icky when you’re drowning the government in a bathtub! Maybe he can team up with health expert Jenny McCarthy to spread the message.

First they came for the vapers. And I said nothing. For I was a Marlboro Man, myself.

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