During last week’s CPAC, Grover Norquist spoke on a panel entitled “It’s the Spending, Stupid!” during which he made the claim that what really unites the conservative movement is the desire to just be left alone. Even social conservatives, he claimed, really just want to be left alone to pray, raise their families, and practice their religion as they see fit … which made me laugh, because we all know that is not the case at all.

As evidence, all me to point to Georgia, which is only one of three states in the nation to prohibits the sale of alcohol on Sunday. Legislation was introduced that would have repealed that prohibition and let voters decide via referendum whether their cities or counties would allow retailers to sell alcohol on Sundays and appeared on the fast-track to passage.

And why wouldn’t it? Republicans ought to love it because it a) limits government and b) gives voters the choice to decide for themselves.

But then the Georgia Christian Coalition mobilized and started “suggesting that our supporters tell their city councilman or commissioner to call their state senator and say alcohol is an issue that divides us. Just leave Sunday alone.”

And that was the end of that: